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Encyclopedia > Toby Litt

Toby Litt is an English writer, born in Bedford in 1968. He studied at Bedford Modern School, read English at Worcester College, Oxford and studied Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia where he was taught by Malcolm Bradbury. For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... A writer is anyone who creates a written work, although the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... This article is about the English county town. ... Year 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Bedford Modern School is not to be confused with Bedford School. ... College name Worcester College Collegium Vigorniense Named after Sir Thomas Cookes, Worcestershire Established 1714 Sister College St Catharines College Provost Richard Smethurst JCR President Minesh Tanna Undergraduates 408 MCR President Tom Marshall Graduates 167 Homepage Worcester College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in... UEA redirects here. ... Sir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury (September 7, 1932 – November 27, 2000) was a British author and academic. ...


A short story by Toby Litt was included in the anthology All Hail the New Puritans (2000), edited by Matt Thorne and Nicholas Blincoe, and he has edited The Outcry (2001), Henry James's last completed novel, for Penguin in the UK. In 2003 he was nominated by Granta magazine as one of the 20 'Best of Young British Novelists'. He edited the 13th edition of New Writing and is known for his alphabetical titles. This article is about English novelist Matt Thorne, who is not to be confused with cultural anthropologist Matt Thorn Matt Thorne is an English writer born in 1974 who has published seven novels. ... Nicholas Blincoe is an English author, critic and screenwriter. ... The Outcry is a novel by Henry James published in 1911. ... For other uses of this name, see Henry James (disambiguation). ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


Litt has recently written an interactive short story, using livejournal and twitter, as part of the Penguin We Tell Stories project. It has been suggested that Penguin Modern Poets, Penguin Great Ideas be merged into this article or section. ...


Bibliography

  • Adventures In Capitalism (collection of short stories, 1996, ISBN 0-14-100795-8)
  • Beatniks (1997, ISBN 0-14-101793-7)
  • Corpsing (2000, ISBN 0-14-028577-6)
  • deadkidsongs (2001, ISBN 0-14-028578-4)
  • Exhibitionism (collection of short stories, 2002, ISBN 0-14-100653-6)
  • Finding Myself (2003, ISBN 0-14-100654-4)
  • Ghost Story (2004, ISBN 0-241-14278-4)
  • Hospital, (2007, ISBN 0-241-14280-6)
  • I Play the Drums in a Band Called okay (2008, ISBN 978-0-241-14282-0)

Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... For the band, see 1997 (band). ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ... DeadKidSongs are an Emo band found in Hertfordshire, UK. www. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... Also see: 2002 (number). ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... 2008 (MMVIII) is the current year, a leap year that started on Tuesday of the Anno Domini (or common era), in accordance to the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

  • tobylitt.com
  • MySpace: Toby Litt
  • Interview
  • Toby Litt at www.contemporarywriters.com

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Toby Litt (1341 words)
Toby Litt was born in Bedfordshire, England, in 1968.
Toby Litt's second novel Corpsing (2000), his most successful to date, is a slick, snappy London thriller, dealing with the surprising consequences of an out-of-the-blue shooting in a trendy London restaurant.
Litt's most recent book, Exhibitionism (2002), is a collection of pieces of short fiction, many of which have Sex as a common theme (of which the best is probably the quirky On the etiquette of eye-contact during oral sex).
authortrek.com - Corpsing by Toby Litt (1107 words)
Toby Litt does indeed have aspirations to become such a screenwriter, and it appears that this novel has been successfully optioned as a film.
Toby Litt spares no blushing pigmentation, no internal and bruising detail as he describes how Conrad and his girlfriend, Lily, are literally blown to bits.
Litt very cleverly places his narrator into such situation, something that each of his readers will have fantasized about in one way or another, albeit as a worst case scenario.
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