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  • Jude: Level 1
    Jude: Level 1
    by Julian Gough

    Shortlisted for the 2008 Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction.

    The novel's prologue won the biggest prize in the world for a single short story - the BBC National Short Story Prize.

    "Sheer comic brilliance" - The Times

    "The best comic novel I've ever read" - Tommy Tiernan

    "Could be the finest comic novel since Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman" - The Sunday Tribune

  • Juno and Juliet
    Juno and Juliet
    by Julian Gough

    My first novel, of which I am very fond. The adventures of teenage twin sisters Juno & Juliet, in their first year away from home. Life, love and literature, in Galway and Tipperary.

     

    "Like Roddy Doyle in an extremely good mood" - The Washington Post

    "A modern, at times brilliantly ironic reworking of the classical fairytale, with nods to Shakespeare, Austen and Beckett." - Literary Review

    "Hugely entertaining" - Vogue

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Thursday
Jan222009

I'm reading in Berlin on Saturday

DateThursday, January 22, 2009 at 03:30AM

Phil Rose took this picture of me in Berlin a while back

I'm reading a new piece from my next book (Jude: Level 2), this Saturday, January 24th 2009, at 4pm, in the Johann Rose in Kreutzberg. Why? Because the magnificent Nikola Richter asked me. Only a fool would say no, and my mamma didn't raise no fools. (Her Wikipedia entry is in German, but here she is in English.) I gather I'll be reading in the Hinterzimmer Salon (in the back room... I'll be everybody's darling...)

There will be cake. (In fact, I am being paid in cake.) This is, bizarrely, my first reading in Berlin. And I've never read this piece live before, so it may suck. But it may not. Anyway, it's free, so no whinging. Here's the address:

 

CafeBar & Lounge
Johann Rose
Forster Str. 57
10999 Berlin
U1 Görlitzer Bahnhof

Tel.: 0049 (0) 30- 55 10 35 90
news@johannrose.de

 

 

Elis will also be reading... Heck, read all about it in German (the key phrase is "Eintritt Frei"!)

 

Herzliche Einladung zum ersten Hinterzimmer-Salon im Johann Rose im neuen Jahr!

Come visit!

24. Januar: Wild komisch

Bei Kuchen und Kaffee und Musik vom Plattenteller geht es im Januarsalon am Samstag, den 24.1., darum, wie man eigentlich das Lachen in Texte hineinschreibt. Die Gäste sind:

Julian Gough ("Juno and Juliet", "Jude: Level 1"), Gewinner des BBC National Short Story Awards 2007, Sänger und Texter der literarischen und legendären irischen Band "Toasted Heretic", die mit "Galway and Los Angeles" einen Top Ten-Hit in Irland erzielte. Hier kann man erfahren, was er über den satirischen, lyrischen Autor Clive James denkt: http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=10530 Julians eigene Webseite findet man hier: http://www.juliangough.com/


Und Elis, Mitglied der Berliner Lesebühne LSD (Liebe statt Drogen), die jeden Dienstag im Lokal auftritt. Berühmt sind unter anderem seine McGyver-Geschichten bei der leider nicht mehr existenten Lesebühne O-Ton-Ute. Er liest neue Texte und vielleicht singt er auch eines seiner "Lieder für Kühe". Mehr hier: http://www.myspace.com/eliscbihn und hier http://www.liebestattdrogen.de/

 

Eintritt frei, Hutspende erbeten

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Eine gemeinsame Lesereihe von Nikola Richter, René Hamann im Johann Rose, http://www.johannrose.de

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Reader Comments (6)

Just the reason I need to visit Berlin again!
January 22, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterrobert
See you down the mosh pit, Robert...
January 23, 2009 | Registered CommenterJulian Gough
Finally arrived at home. It was a nice afternoon/evening. Thanks again!
January 25, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterrobert
It was a pleasure Robert. Glad you enjoyed it, and great to meet you. I had a blast. It was such a relief to discover the new stuff works live...

And big thanks to everyone else who turned up, it was great to see so many new faces. And so many familiar faces; hi there Ida, Niklas, Cathy, Alina, Monkeyshines and Berlinimus...

Extra-big thanks to Nikola and René for organising it.

For anyone who put money in the hat: we invested the money wisely, in Café Gri Gri, down by the canal, on the way home... yum yum...
January 25, 2009 | Registered CommenterJulian Gough
That's a shame, I would have liked to have made that as enjoy the blog but saw this post too late. Hope there'll be another Berlin reading soon...
January 25, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterJohn
Sorry, John. I put up the post very late (and emailed my friends even later). I'm rather distracted, as I enter the final furlong of Jude: Level 2 (which should be finished in a week or so). Future Berlin readings will be announced much further in advance...
January 26, 2009 | Registered CommenterJulian Gough

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