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I'm currently working on a new novel, and an extract from it, titled 'The Gleaner's Wife', which was previously available only in The London Magazine's print issue, is now available to read on my website. Link below:
David Hering
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David Hering
@hering_david
Writer | Critic | Fitzcarraldo Novel Prize finalist | Literature, cinema, visual arts | Writing a book about ghosts | David Berman, we miss you
Joined February 2013
- If only there was a way to learn a restaurant’s opening hours and menu when standing outside it
- The correct - and depressing - answer to this is the Minionswhen was the last time an original film character became a genuine pop cultural icon? There has to have been someone post-Jack Sparrow but I simply can’t think who
- I feel strongly that we shouldn’t see his body. Feels like a violation
- One of the very few films that suggests that the past is so fundamentally strange to us that if we travelled back there it would appear to us as a dreamThis shot from Fellini's "Satyricon" (1968) is so weird it looks like a 90s point-and-click adventure game
- Capri-Sun are doing a Great Gatsby flavour. It tastes of disappointment and longing
- I don’t care how much money a film makes at the box office
- It’s unironically wonderful that one of our biggest pop stars is opening up a huge audience to literature in translation
- There is nothing like this film. Not least because the director was never allowed to make another one
- I’m never not amazed that David Lynch accidentally spotted his set designer during filming and said “you’re going to be the embodiment of absolute evil” and the set designer said “Ok” and immediately became the most terrifying character in the history of televisionFrank Silva behind the scenes of Twin Peaks (1990-1991)
- Netflix wouldn’t fund David Lynch’s final film but on the bright side we’ve got this garbage
