#dbc pierre

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DBC Pierre's writing style is like no other. His debut novel won the Man Booker Prize.

DBC Pierre, author of Vernon God Little, is a wild, angry man, or at least writes that way. 

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But here's the point: which imbecile ever thought it a good idea to base social political, and economic systems on the assumption that humans will act purposefully and correctly, even in their own best interests. Look around us, at economies, ideologies. All have failed because their systems assume we will do the right thing.

DBC Pierre on the message of Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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"Films grant you a visa. Books make you a citizen."

DBC Pierre

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Title: Big Snake Little Snake | Author: DBC Pierre | Publisher: Cheerio (2022)

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Jesus von Texas – High-School-Amoklauf in texanischer Provinz

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words and archaeology

DBC Pierre in guardian article on creative writing...

‘we stop ourselves from writing what we have to write by pausing to fret over details and risks, and by filtering ourselves through subconscious juries. Sparkles of gold can appear if we just get enough words written, which means write like the wind, don’t look down. Make a pact never to show anyone, build a mound of dirt, skim it later for anything that excites you. Skimming is a different job, sober and honest, of an archaeologist crumbling dirt in her hands. Separate any glimmers into a new document and build on them, connect them, repeat the process. Those glimmers are also evidence that things can work out, making them power pills for the will; use them to press on’

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DBC Pierre’s Glossary of publishing terms

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Vernon God Little

Warning: The joke is on you. #PinchLinesBookReviews

Warning: The joke is on you. The story starts with the profane first-person vernacular of a 15-year-old Vernon. The cops are investigating a high-school shooting incident. And Vernon spews his version of the happenings in explicit sexual trash.  Almost 200 pages into the story, you think you have got a grip on it. And that’s when the author decides to take the joke several notches higher. In…

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