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I'll be at Ellie's cocktail bar in Dalston on June 1st in conversation with Anika Jade Levy @champagnesucks author of the excellent 'Flat Earth'. Get ya tickets for this skull-melting Soho Reading Series event
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WHY I LEARNED TO LOVE ISLAMIC MYSTICISM, by Rob Doyle (@RobDoyle1)
The country with which the French Heideggerian philosopher Henry Corbin is most closely associated is the one that screams from today’s headlines of war, massacres, and oppression: Iran. But, instead, Corbin shows us a land of the most exquisite spirituality and philosophical refinement, all in a vocabulary that includes words and phrases like “the eighth climate, the Cosmic North, Sophiology, the Night Ineffable, the mountain of Qaf, the earth of Huqalya, and so on.
Such language might suggest the kind of florid effusions to be found inside dubious books shelved in the ‘Mind, Body, and Spirit’ section of your local bookshop, but Corbin’s works are written to the highest standards of French scholarship. It’s as if Roland Barthes or Jean-Paul Sartre were philosophising from inside the universe of Frank Herbert’s Dune. Or, better yet, a sort-of singular form of avant-garde, scholarly, theological fiction, which abounds with almost Borgesian characters. For example, consider Khdir, the ‘immortal wanderer’ of Sufi lore who visits solitary mystics in dreams and visions; or the ‘Hidden Imam’ of Shi-ite apocalyptic theology who went into occultation many centuries ago and will reveal himself again at the end of time.
Beyond that, Corbin says something profound to inhabitants of the West in the 2020s — a place where something has gone catastrophically wrong. He insists that our malaise is not to be located in this or that symptom, be it societal, political or cultural, but must be traced into the philosophical foundations of secular modernity itself.
Read more below ⬇️
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The brilliant new novel from Irish Book Award–shortlisted author Rob Doyle is a daring comedy and dazzling meditation on fiction and reality.
‘A writer living and thinking his way to the frontiers of human society’ - Spectator
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✨'A writer living and thinking his way to the frontiers of human society' Spectator
It's publication day for CAMEO by @RobDoyle1!
A daring comedy and dazzling meditation on fiction and reality.
Available now: https://t.co/93Y5VzpoZ7
Interview: @RobDoyle1 discusses his meta extravaganza Cameo, the cultural ructions of the past decade, and the memorable screen adaptation of his novel Here Are The Young Men, starring Anya Taylor-Joy
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🔊2026 HAS BEGUN!
In 2019, @RobDoyle1 wrote in the @IrishTimes that Amis's London Fields stood "damn near the summit of modern novelistic achievement".
Does he still think that?
NEW YEAR, NEW EPISODE🔗 https://t.co/hCpxm9t4wP
Read @RobDoyle1's ""Cameo". I enjoyed "Threshold" when it came out, so had been looking forward to this. (especially after hearing his turn on @mymartinamis). It didn't disappoint. Enjoyed the fun poked at writers, the literary/publishing industry and contemporary cancel 1/4
'Each book I write becomes a monument to a phase of life, and, more often than not, to the crisis it coincides with.'
@RobDoyle1 interviewed by @JamiePCameron
Read the full conversation here: https://t.co/V3J8Yph57I
PUBLICATION DAY. It’s like TRAINING DAY with Denzel Washington but with me instead of him and quantum-realist hyperfiction instead of hardcore police corruption and me instead of him
✨'A writer living and thinking his way to the frontiers of human society' Spectator
It's publication day for CAMEO by @RobDoyle1!
A daring comedy and dazzling meditation on fiction and reality.
Available now: https://t.co/93Y5VzpoZ7
Today, 4pm on #TakeFourBooks on @BBCRadio4 I'm talking to @RobDoyle1 about his "mise en abyme" new novel CAMEO, and 3 influences - absolute crackers this week in the form of Jorge Luis Borges, Roberto Bolano and Marguerite Yourcenar! Listen here 📚🎧👇https://t.co/zUqMm7lkeD