B. S. Johnson (1933–1973)
Author of Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry
About the Author
Image credit: http://bsjohnson.org/
Works by B. S. Johnson
A Few Selected Sentences 1 copy
A Dublin unicorn 1 copy
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- Legal name
- Johnson, Bryan Stanley
- Birthdate
- 1933-02-05
- Date of death
- 1973-11-13
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- Hammersmith, London, England, UK
- Place of death
- London, England, UK
- Places of residence
- Hammersmith, London, England, UK
- Education
- King's College, London
- Occupations
- bank clerk
accounts clerk
novelist
dramatist
poet
filmmaker - Awards and honors
- Gregynog Arts Fellow (1969-1970)
- Short biography
- B. S. Johnson was a British experimental novelist whose work remained 'lost' for many years after his death. (He commited suicide in 1973.)
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5. Christie Malry's Own Double Entry by B.S. Johnson in Backlisted Book Club (March 2022)
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First of all, I want to say thank you to Mister [a:Luke Haines|2618249|Luke Haines|http://www.goodreads.com/assets/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]. He mentioned Christie Malry during an interview and concert at the Southbank Centre last summer (which summer I mean you'll have to find out yourself if your interested at all). Later I also read a book by Mister Haynes, called [b:Post Everything: Outsider Rock and Roll|13578580|Post Everything Outsider Rock and Roll|Luke Haines|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1333581642s/13578580.jpg|19162143]. In this book he luckily mentioned Mr. Malry again, because I had forgotten to write it down.
Christie Malry is funny, weird and devoid of any empathy, or actually full of it. Christie's live sucks and to make it even worse it is entirely not clear if he exists at all.
So [a:Jonathan Coe|19916|Jonathan Coe|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1233589818p2/19916.jpg], I recognized your writings in this bewildering little work of fiction. [b:The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim|7419758|The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim|Jonathan Coe|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1327440360s/7419758.jpg|9369061] No wonder you wrote a whole book on B.S. Johnson.
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This is not a review, just some unorganized information I wanted to share. My tooth is nagging me.
My tooth, the one that's gone, actually wrote this review.
A phanthom review, thank you tooth at last you did something nice!… (more)