Re-reading B. S. Johnson

Re-reading B. S. Johnson

Author: P. Tew

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-12-04

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0230286127

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Growing academic interest and the republication of B.S. Johnson's major works have been reinforced by Coe's award-winning biography Like A Fiery Elephant (2004). With a preface by Coe, this collection, co-edited by two leading Johnson scholars, offers an annotated bibliography, a chronology and readings of the author and his work.


The Unfortunates

The Unfortunates

Author: B S Johnson

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Published: 2023-06-29

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 1447276531

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A sports journalist, sent to a Midlands town on a weekly assignment, finds himself confronted by ghosts from the past when he disembarks at the railway station. Memories of one of his best, most trusted friends, a tragically young victim of cancer, begin to flood through his mind as he attempts to go about the routine business of reporting a football match. B S Johnson’s famous ‘book in a box’, in which the chapters are presented unbound, to be read in any order the reader chooses, is one of the key works of a novelist now undergoing an enormous revival of interest. The Unfortunates is a book of passionate honesty and dark, courageous humour: a meditation on death and a celebration of friendship which also offers a remarkably frank self-portrait of its author.


Like a Fiery Elephant

Like a Fiery Elephant

Author: Jonathan Coe

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Published: 2013-03-07

Total Pages: 498

ISBN-13: 1447243773

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In his heyday, during the 1960s and early 1970s, B. S. Johnson was one of the best-known young novelists in Britain. A passionate advocate for the avant-garde in both literature and film, he became famous -- not to say notorious -- both for his forthright views on the future of the novel and for his idiosyncratic ways of putting them into practice. But in November 1973 Johnson's lifelong depression got the better of him, and he was found dead at his north London home. He had taken his own life at the age of forty. Jonathan Coe's biography is based upon unique access to the vast collection of papers Johnson left behind after his death, and upon dozens of interviews with those who knew him best. As unconventional in form as one of its subject's own novels, it paints a remarkable picture -- sometimes hilarious, often overwhelmingly sad -- of a tortured personality; a man whose writing tragically failed to keep at bay the demons that pursued him.


Albert Angelo

Albert Angelo

Author: Bryan Stanley Johnson

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780811210034

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Albert Angelo is by vocation an architect and only by economic necessity working as a substitute teacher. He had thought he was, if not dedicated, at least competent. But now, on temporary assignments in schools located in the tough neighborhoods of London, Albert feels ineffectual. He is failing as a teacher and failing to fulfill himself as an architect. And then, too, he is pained by the memory of a failed love affair.


House Mother Normal

House Mother Normal

Author: B. S. Johnson

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780811209816

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"Shares the thoughts and memories of eight elderly men and women living in a nursing home." -- Amazon.com viewed November 25, 2020.


Christie Malry's Own Double-entry

Christie Malry's Own Double-entry

Author: Bryan Stanley Johnson

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780811209540

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A disaffected young man, Christie Malry, is a simple man who learns the principles of double-entry book-keeping while taking an evening class in accountancy and working in the local bank. He begins to apply these principles to his own life, revenging himself against society in an increasingly violent manner for perceived 'debits'. Debit: the unpleasantness of the bank manager is the first on an ever-growing list; Credit: scratching the façade of the office block. All accounts are settled in the most alarming way.


B S Johnson and Post-War Literature

B S Johnson and Post-War Literature

Author: M. Ryle

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-12-11

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 1137349557

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A collection of essays on the 1960s experimental writer B.S. Johnson, this book draws together new research on all aspects of his work, and, in tracing his connections to a wider circle of continental, British and American avant-garde writers, offers exciting new approaches to reading 1960s experimental fiction.


BSJ: The B.S. Johnson Journal

BSJ: The B.S. Johnson Journal

Author: Edited by Darlington, Hooper, Seddon, Tew, Zouaoui

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2014-09-01

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1326003704

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The first issue of the B.S. Johnson Journal: 'The issue with institutions', featuring essays, interviews, peer-reviewed academic papers and creative pieces inspired by the British writer, with contributions from: Kate Connolly, Joseph Darlington, Vanessa Guignery, David Leon Higden, David Hucklesby, Juliet Jacques, Nicholas Middleton, Jeremy Page, Melanie Seddon, David Quantick.


BSJ: The BS Johnson Journal 3

BSJ: The BS Johnson Journal 3

Author: Ed: Darlington, Hooper, Seddon, Tew, Zouaoui

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2017-01-18

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 1326921525

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The third issue of the B.S. Johnson Journal: 'The issue with the truth', featuring essays, interviews, peer-reviewed academic papers and creative pieces inspired by the British writer, with contributions from Andrew Robert Hodgson, Ed Sibley, Scott Manley Hadley, Philip Tew, Joanna Norledge, Jeremy Page, Alaska James, Richard Berry, Philip Terry, James Davies, Sue Birchenough, Ali Znaidi, Tim Chapman, Jim Goar, James Riley, Ruth Clemens, Kate Connolly, Joseph Darlington and Andy Miller


BSJ: The BS Johnson Journal 2

BSJ: The BS Johnson Journal 2

Author: Ed: Darlington, Hooper, Seddon, Tew, Zouaoui

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2015-09-13

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1326418904

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The second issue of the B.S. Johnson Journal: 'The issue with materiality', featuring essays, interviews, peer-reviewed academic papers and creative pieces inspired by the British writer, with contributions from Melanie Seddon, Romen Reyes-Peschl, David Hucklesby, Joseph Darlington, Andrew Motion, Denisa Hobbs, Michael Pennie, Richard Russell, Gemma O'Connell, Simon Dawes, Richard Leigh Harris, Hannah Van Hove, Stephanie Jones, Mark Yates"