Nicholas Taylor-Collins in front of a bookshelf

Nicholas Taylor-Collins

Literary researcher | Creative reader

Tag: J.G. Ballard

  • A new atrocity: C.D. Rose’s ‘We Live Here Now’

    A new atrocity: C.D. Rose’s ‘We Live Here Now’

    This blog post is more ‘thought experiment’ than ‘thought through’. Let’s see whether it works. C.D. Rose’s We Live Here Now (Melville House, 2024) won the 2025 Goldsmiths Prize for experimental fiction. It comprises fifteen chapters, the stories of which are not told strictly chronologically—’They could we think later, be seen in any sequence.’—that all…