Morrissey as he is by
William Burroughs
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and
Joe Orton
John Kingsley Orton (1 January 1933 – 9 August 1967), known by the pen name of Joe Orton, was an English playwright, author, and diarist. His public career, from 1964 until his death in 1967, was short but highly influential. During this brie ...
. As one of the brave ones — and one of Britain's most shameless writers — HP Tinker has been peddling his own brand of surrealism for years now, in stories littered with pop cultural references where you are likely to meet
Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker (née Rothschild; August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American poet, writer, critic, and satirist based in New York; she was known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles.
From a conflicted and unhap ...
,
Tom Paulin
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Earl ...
,
Paul Gauguin
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as you are
Dean Martin
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and
Morrissey." (''Dogmatika'' websit
''The Times'' has praised his "hilarious deadpan surrealism", ''The Independent'' thought him "unusual, arresting, smart and very funny" and ''The Guardian'' remarked that he "fizzes with the kind of zany, surreal conjunctions that recall Barthelme and Pynchon in their prime."
In 2010 HP Tinker appeared in the 200th edition of ''
Ambit
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'' magazine alongside
Peter Blake (artist), Sir Peter Blake and
Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Allen Lethem (; born February 19, 1964) is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. His first novel, '' Gun, with Occasional Music'', a genre work that mixed elements of science fiction and detective fiction, was publi ...
.
His story "Alice In Time & Space and Various Major Cities" was included in ''Best British Short Stories 2012''.
Author
Lee Rourke
Lee Rourke (born 1972) is an English writer and literary critic. His books include the short story collection ''Everyday'', the novels ''The Canal'' (winner of '' The Guardian’s'' Not The Booker Prize in 2010), ''Vulgar Things'', and ''Glitch ...
devoted a chapter to HP Tinker in ''A Brief History of Fables'', describing his work as “a grand symphony of intertextuality, tomfoolery and theoretical intent”.
A second collection of short stories, ''The Girl Who Ate New York'', was published in 2015. In his review, the novelist David Rose commented, "
John Ashbery
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Ashbery is considered the most influential American poet of his time. Oxford University literary critic John Bayley wrote that Ashbery "sounded, in ...
described the late
Lee Harwood
Lee Harwood (6 June 1939 – 26 July 2015) was a poet associated with the British Poetry Revival.
Life
Travers Rafe Lee Harwood was born in Leicester to maths teacher Wilfred Travers Lee-Harwood and Grace Ladkin Harwood, who were then living ...
as Britain’s best-kept secret; H.P. Tinker is another, even better-kept secret" and called the book "one of the wittiest, most allusive and elusive collections I have read in years."
Works
Fiction
''The Swank Bisexual Wine Bar of Modernity'' (Social Disease, 2007)
''The Girl Who Ate New York'' (East London Press, 2015)
''Le détective'' (Nightjar Press, 2019)
Anthologies
''Dreams Never End'' (Tindal St Press, 2004)
''The Edgier Waters: Five Years of 3:AM'' (Snow Books, 2006)
''Expletive Deleted'' (Bleak House Books, 2007)
''The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime'' (Robinson Publishing, 2009)
''Bloody Vampires'' (Glasshouse Books, 2010)
''Best British Short Stories'' (Salt, 2012)
''We'll Never Have Paris'' (Repeater Books, 2019)
External links
''Reverse Striptease'' by Andrew Gallix: the "phantom" foreword to ''The Swank Bisexual Wine Bar of Modernity''
* ttp://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/writing-a-rothko-an-interview-with-hp-tinker/ ''Writing a Rothko: An Interview With HP Tinker'' by Chris Killenbr>''Excerpts From The Extraordinary Autobiography of Mister HPT'' by HP Tinker at ''Everyday Genius''
References
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Living people
1969 births
English short story writers
People from Chorlton-cum-Hardy