John Patrick Higgins
@johnnymuggins.bsky.social
Writer and Wronger. Some Collateral Dumbage.
www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/an-... Wow! Here's a lovely interview I did did with @tylergore.bsky.social for the Washington Independent Review of Books, all about my book Spine. He squeezed a lot out. I was a tube of toothpaste between his expert thumb and forefinger.
An Interview with John Patrick Higgins | Washington Independent Review of Books
The Independent is an important voice in the community of readers and writers dedicated to book reviews and writing about the world of books.
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October 1, 2025 at 9:12 AM
www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/an-... Wow! Here's a lovely interview I did did with @tylergore.bsky.social for the Washington Independent Review of Books, all about my book Spine. He squeezed a lot out. I was a tube of toothpaste between his expert thumb and forefinger.
I have a new website! It's your one-stop-shop for all things Higgins. Read about my books, look at my large, grainy, black and white face, read my thoughts, and the thoughts of the thinking people who think about me.
Step inside, love!
www.johnpatrickhiggins.com
Step inside, love!
www.johnpatrickhiggins.com
June 23, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I have a new website! It's your one-stop-shop for all things Higgins. Read about my books, look at my large, grainy, black and white face, read my thoughts, and the thoughts of the thinking people who think about me.
Step inside, love!
www.johnpatrickhiggins.com
Step inside, love!
www.johnpatrickhiggins.com
Spine, is out now. It's been called "the funniest book of the year", but it's also an angry, visceral, and ultimately thankful meditation on mortality. With funny jokes.
It's a companion-piece to my previous book, Teeth. So if you enjoyed that, you'll ADORE this one.
It's a companion-piece to my previous book, Teeth. So if you enjoyed that, you'll ADORE this one.
June 17, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Spine, is out now. It's been called "the funniest book of the year", but it's also an angry, visceral, and ultimately thankful meditation on mortality. With funny jokes.
It's a companion-piece to my previous book, Teeth. So if you enjoyed that, you'll ADORE this one.
It's a companion-piece to my previous book, Teeth. So if you enjoyed that, you'll ADORE this one.
Spine has thrilled the Gnome Appreciation society! Lovely review in which he notes I call Batman a dick, and have the reviewer chuckling so hard over soup-based antics he upsets his neighbour. Funniest book of the year! What? Just THIS year? I think we can go further than that.
My review of Spine by @johnnymuggins.bsky.social felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/05/11/s... available from @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social incredibly funny book
Spine by John Patrick Higgins
What Da Cover Says: John Patrick Higgins has been told he’s spineless for as long as he can remember. But if that’s true, why is he obliged to leave an armchair with the nervous trepidation of some…
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May 12, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Spine has thrilled the Gnome Appreciation society! Lovely review in which he notes I call Batman a dick, and have the reviewer chuckling so hard over soup-based antics he upsets his neighbour. Funniest book of the year! What? Just THIS year? I think we can go further than that.
www.popmatters.com/northern-ire... I'm back in Popmatters, with my book, "Fine", being quoted extensively in an article about Jan Carson. For the record, I LIKE Belfast. Great bunch of lads. It's the protagonist who doesn't understand its unique, bracing charm. So we're clear.
In Northern Ireland, Absence Makes the Heart Feel More Deeply » PopMatters
Writers like Jan Carson understand that, in the absence of the Troubles, people of Northern Ireland may not know who they are, culturally or artistically, or may struggle to articulate who they are wi...
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April 21, 2025 at 6:44 PM
www.popmatters.com/northern-ire... I'm back in Popmatters, with my book, "Fine", being quoted extensively in an article about Jan Carson. For the record, I LIKE Belfast. Great bunch of lads. It's the protagonist who doesn't understand its unique, bracing charm. So we're clear.
So you get fewer words on here now. But I have so much to say. I mean, I've got nothing RIGHT NOW, but in theory...yeah...
April 1, 2025 at 5:09 PM
So you get fewer words on here now. But I have so much to say. I mean, I've got nothing RIGHT NOW, but in theory...yeah...
@patsycollins.bsky.social Thrilled my short story, "No Light In The Trees", is featured in Weird Horror number 10, just one of a coterie of curiosities contained therein.
Why not buy a copy? You will never sleep again. FACT.
Never sleep again in a GOOD WAY, obviously.
@undertow.bsky.social
Why not buy a copy? You will never sleep again. FACT.
Never sleep again in a GOOD WAY, obviously.
@undertow.bsky.social
March 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
@patsycollins.bsky.social Thrilled my short story, "No Light In The Trees", is featured in Weird Horror number 10, just one of a coterie of curiosities contained therein.
Why not buy a copy? You will never sleep again. FACT.
Never sleep again in a GOOD WAY, obviously.
@undertow.bsky.social
Why not buy a copy? You will never sleep again. FACT.
Never sleep again in a GOOD WAY, obviously.
@undertow.bsky.social
I am thrilled to be able to share Anne Marie Hantho's beautiful cover to Spine, my new book, coming to your bookshelf this summer. A semi-sequel to Teeth, Spine sees me further cataloguing my failing body parts. What's next, you ask.
Probably best not to ask.
You do NOT want to know.
Probably best not to ask.
You do NOT want to know.
March 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I am thrilled to be able to share Anne Marie Hantho's beautiful cover to Spine, my new book, coming to your bookshelf this summer. A semi-sequel to Teeth, Spine sees me further cataloguing my failing body parts. What's next, you ask.
Probably best not to ask.
You do NOT want to know.
Probably best not to ask.
You do NOT want to know.
Sadly, Alice here does not represent my views.
January 30, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Sadly, Alice here does not represent my views.
Scythes Queens
January 28, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Scythes Queens
That's how you sex up a dystopian future: a small, badly pointed brick wall front and centre of the action.
In the future, you gotta know where your trowel is.
In the future, you gotta know where your trowel is.
January 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM
That's how you sex up a dystopian future: a small, badly pointed brick wall front and centre of the action.
In the future, you gotta know where your trowel is.
In the future, you gotta know where your trowel is.
Shelley Duvall wither iguana, Hasbro. She's adorable.
January 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Shelley Duvall wither iguana, Hasbro. She's adorable.
Detail of a Roman mosaic, 300-400AD. I think that's Romulus and Remus' lovely mum.
January 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Detail of a Roman mosaic, 300-400AD. I think that's Romulus and Remus' lovely mum.
www.popmatters.com/john-patrick... Review of "Fine" in Popmatters:
"Lines of action are as invisibly elegant and neatly crafted as any one of the writer’s beautiful sentences. Both gut-bruisingly funny and achingly sad. The line between the tragic and the comic is, of course, a fine one." Wow!
"Lines of action are as invisibly elegant and neatly crafted as any one of the writer’s beautiful sentences. Both gut-bruisingly funny and achingly sad. The line between the tragic and the comic is, of course, a fine one." Wow!
John Patrick Higgins' 'Fine' Hangs on in Quiet Desperation » PopMatters
The lives of middle-aged men are to John Patrick Higgins as the statue of Ozymandias was to Shelley: epic, broken, and tragi-comic monuments to quiet desperation.
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January 21, 2025 at 9:39 PM
www.popmatters.com/john-patrick... Review of "Fine" in Popmatters:
"Lines of action are as invisibly elegant and neatly crafted as any one of the writer’s beautiful sentences. Both gut-bruisingly funny and achingly sad. The line between the tragic and the comic is, of course, a fine one." Wow!
"Lines of action are as invisibly elegant and neatly crafted as any one of the writer’s beautiful sentences. Both gut-bruisingly funny and achingly sad. The line between the tragic and the comic is, of course, a fine one." Wow!
felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/01/18/f... Delightful review from the ever-discerning @gnomelord.bsky.social I've always liked gnomes, you know.
Fine by John Patrick Higgins
What Da Cover Says: To hear Paul Reverb tell it, he’s fine. Sure, he’s been caught in a compromising situation by his window cleaner and failed to prevent daylight robbery, and yes, he no longer te…
felcherman.wordpress.com
January 19, 2025 at 12:51 PM
felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/01/18/f... Delightful review from the ever-discerning @gnomelord.bsky.social I've always liked gnomes, you know.
The sky is still blue, the clouds come and go, yet something is different.
RIP David Lynch.
RIP David Lynch.
January 16, 2025 at 11:31 PM
The sky is still blue, the clouds come and go, yet something is different.
RIP David Lynch.
RIP David Lynch.
xraylitmag.com/aug-stone-re... Fabulous review of Fine by Aug Stone in @xraylitmag.bsky.social All "wanking and The Smiths"? What am I? 15? Far from it. Far from it.
AUG STONE RECOMMENDS: Steve Aylett, Kevin Maloney, Madeline Cash, John Patrick Higgins
Steve Aylett, The Book Lovers (Snowbooks, 2024) Steve Aylett is back with a new novel that could very well be his best work yet. In The Book Lovers, Aylett’s fireworks are at maximum intensity – daz...
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January 16, 2025 at 4:42 PM
xraylitmag.com/aug-stone-re... Fabulous review of Fine by Aug Stone in @xraylitmag.bsky.social All "wanking and The Smiths"? What am I? 15? Far from it. Far from it.
johnpatrickhiggins.blogspot.com/2025/01/nosf... I watched Nosferatu. Opinions formed in my head.
Nosferatu
I didn't hate it. And I didn't think it was too long, which is unusual, as every film I've seen in the last couple of years has felt far t...
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January 15, 2025 at 9:32 PM
johnpatrickhiggins.blogspot.com/2025/01/nosf... I watched Nosferatu. Opinions formed in my head.
Saw Nosferatu...
January 13, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Saw Nosferatu...
You don't get the use of many words on Bluesky, do you? I babble incontinently on every other platform, apparently. But look: two lines, and I've already spaffed half my allotted amount. Expect haikus.
January 11, 2025 at 11:50 AM
You don't get the use of many words on Bluesky, do you? I babble incontinently on every other platform, apparently. But look: two lines, and I've already spaffed half my allotted amount. Expect haikus.
Dreamed I was hired to teach Prince Harry to write songs for his album. Gary Kemp, also hired, instigated a radical splinter group, wearing a tin foil crown and refusing to cooperate. "You took my money," insisted the prince. "It's not your money," said Kemp, a modern Wat Tyler.
January 11, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Dreamed I was hired to teach Prince Harry to write songs for his album. Gary Kemp, also hired, instigated a radical splinter group, wearing a tin foil crown and refusing to cooperate. "You took my money," insisted the prince. "It's not your money," said Kemp, a modern Wat Tyler.
Today I am mostly going to attempt to build a website. I wrote my first novel using the caps lock for each capital letter because I didn't know about the shift key. That's the level of savvy I'm dealing with.
Still, I'm going to have a go at this. And the air will be blue with my luddite fury.
Still, I'm going to have a go at this. And the air will be blue with my luddite fury.
January 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Today I am mostly going to attempt to build a website. I wrote my first novel using the caps lock for each capital letter because I didn't know about the shift key. That's the level of savvy I'm dealing with.
Still, I'm going to have a go at this. And the air will be blue with my luddite fury.
Still, I'm going to have a go at this. And the air will be blue with my luddite fury.
johnpatrickhiggins.blogspot.com/2025/01/prop... Music for the Messes. Fabulous new music from the mighty Charlemagnes.
Proper Charlies
Who'd be in a band? Not me. Except the one I'm in, of course. But you wouldn't want to be in another one. All those men, for a start. The f...
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January 10, 2025 at 1:15 AM
johnpatrickhiggins.blogspot.com/2025/01/prop... Music for the Messes. Fabulous new music from the mighty Charlemagnes.