3am Interview: A Cunning Linguist – 69 Things To Do With Stewart Home —

“It’s not a problem in the States for people to understand that there is more than one style of English language writing that can be worked at, but here it’s a problem. The critics think that if you’re not making these failed attempts at metaphor then you’re not trying. They appear incapable of imagining that I choose to write as I do. The critics here seem to think I can’t control my writing. But actually writing in a stripped-down way is a discipline, because you’ve got to make sure it’s not baggy and you’ re not repeating yourself too much within a sentence. And with every sentence you’re paring it down. You’re thinking – I want 20 to 30 word sentences. So there’s a certain discipline in there. With this Dead Princess it’s like Come Before Christ and Murder Love, it hasn’t got that pulp narrative and basically it’s written from the perspective of a disintegrating personality” 3am Magazine