It's Libra by DeLillo for me, for the language (that shrieking metro scene at the beginning...), for the way the gaps in the 'facts' of Oswald are filed so densely and so strangely, for the creep towards *the event* over decades.

With no research on my part at all, what about The Bookseller Crow in Crystal Palace?

'Making Things Real Again' is quite a ridiculous story TBH, a wondering what might have happened had Russian Formalist Viktor Shklovsky dragged his ideas (and his prodigious temper) up a big hill. It was longlisted for the
@desperatelit.bsky.social prize last year.

Thank you! Hope you're good - I'm looking forward to The Benefactors hitting the shops!

Or wherever, actually. I will travel!

I (British, living in London) was chatting to an American I met recently who has just moved to the UK but has toured widely (not just the US, but also the UK, Europe and beyond) with quite a successful band, and he asked me quite innocently, "have you visited mainland Europe?"