To Foucault, A Daughter: Review By Mark Simpson

This is a review by Mark Simpson of my novella Scribbling On Foucault’s Walls. He took it down from his blog in a fit of pique so I am putting it here for safekeeping. And because, neither Metrodaddy nor anyone else, can erase the past. ——————————————— Reg­u­lar vis­i­tors to this blog will be famil­iar with [...]

If You’re Feeling Sinister

‘Hilary went to her death because she couldn’t think of anything to say Everybody thought that she was boring, so they never listened anyway Nobody was really saying anything of interest, she fell asleep She was into S&M and bible studies Not everyone’s cup of tea she would admit to me Her cup of tea, [...]

Letters From An Alien -Facts and Fictions

‘In a work of nonfiction we almost never know the truth of what happened. The ideal of unmediated reporting is regularly achieved only in fiction, where the writer faithfully reports on what is going on in his imagination. When James reports in “The Golden Bowl” that the Prince and Charlotte are sleeping together, we have [...]

A Home for an Orphan Girl

  Foucault’s Daughter has found a home! She is going to be residing at the rather chaotic, exciting and a little bit dirty House of Zizek. Zizek press is the future! I am not going to sell the book on Amazon due to the fact it is a copyright legal case waiting to happen. So [...]

Letters From An Alien: Trick

  There is this trick (you will have played it on yourself) where a writer writes something very personal and somehow manages to convince him/herself that on finishing it, it will magically turn into just another book. That is detached from the personal things it refers to. But that is the point when it becomes [...]

Scribbling On Foucault’s Walls #1 Madness Is Childhood

I could not keep my patient QRG readers waiting any longer. So here is the first of three-parts of Foucault’s Daughter, aka Scribbling On Foucault’s Walls. It is available FREE on smashwords: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/70119 I am busy trying to get an e-publisher at the moment, so if I am successful the whole novel/la (it is quite [...]

Cemetery Gates: #Foucault’s Daughter On Youtube

Foucault’s Daughter is probably not made for the big screen. I think my novella is very much for reading. But, it does contain some choice clips from some wonderful films. I won’t give the story away by putting them in context, except that I think you may be able to see a common thread running [...]

Foucault’s Daughter Exists!

I have just completed the first draft (Hopefully nearly the last one) of my  novel about Foucault’s Daughter. Imagine for a moment, if I was one of those writers who got interviewed. And the interviewer asked me how Foucault’s Daughter came into being. I would find it a very difficult question to answer.You may realise [...]

Letters From An Alien: The Queen Is Dead, Boys

http://www.marksimpson.com/pages/queen_is_dead.html Dear Misters Simpson and Zeeland, I haven’t finished with you yet. One of the things I loved about The Queen Is Dead was the way it was written as if nobody would read it.  The letters you wrote read to me like intimate missives between two friends, as if they were meant for your [...]

Letters From An Alien: A Search For Courtly Love?

Michel Foucault: The experience of heterosexuality, at least since the Middle Ages, has always consisted of two panels: On the one hand, the panel of courtship in which the man seduces the woman: and, on the other, the panel of the sexual act itself. Now the great heterosexual literature of the West has had to [...]