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Alice Hattrick is a writer and producer based in London. Their book on unexplained illness, intimacy and mother-daughter relationships, titled Ill Feelings, will be published by Fitzcarraldo Editions in 2021.


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Ill Feelings

Feature

Issue No. 19

Alice Hattrick

Feature

Issue No. 19

My mother recently found some loose diary pages I wrote in my first year of boarding school, aged eleven, whilst she was clearing out...

Art

February 2016

'Look at me, I said to the glass in a whisper, a breath.'

Alice Hattrick

Art

February 2016

Listen to her. She is telling you about her adolescence. She is telling you about one particular ‘bender’ that...

Douglas Coupland likes crowdsourcing I should know, because he crowdsourced me shortly after the first part of this interview His ‘in conversation’ partner for the launch of one of the two books he was in town to promote dropped out at the last minute, so I was asked to help him stage a dramatic reconstruction in the shiny new London branch of Foyles; we both played slightly drunker versions of ourselves In the pub afterwards, I briefly cameoed in a video he made using the slow-mo function on his iPhone, panning round the table as the staff of Black Dog Publishing danced and waved their hair around at their best approximation of double speed In playback, I remember it having an analogue TV static effect: we’d made black and white confetti from the endpapers of a signed copy of Hilary Mantel’s The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher   Coupland is probably most famous for a succession of fourteen novels, which, from 1991’s Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture to 2013’s Worst Person Ever define and often satirise successive generations’ relationships to technology The lobby of the Shoreditch branch of Ace Hotel, where the original version of the interview took place, might have been populated by laptop-wielding Coupland characters ‘Ace Hotel is a collection of individuals’, its website explains, ‘multiple and inclusive, held together by an affinity for the soulful We are not here to reinvent the hotel, but to readdress its conventions to keep them fresh, energised, human’   The staff found us a less energised room upstairs, and after we’d got some enamel cups of water, I put my embarrassingly low-tech Dictaphone on the table next to Coupland’s iPhone, and got out my copy of his latest book, Everywhere is Anywhere is Anything is Everything Coupland was an art student before he was a writer, and the book in question is a catalogue – published by Black Dog – of his visual work, with written contributions by curators and friends including Hans Ulrich Obrist and Michael Stipe It accompanies a touring exhibition of Coupland’s art in Canada under the same title, the

Contributor

August 2014

Alice Hattrick

Contributor

August 2014

Alice Hattrick is a writer and producer based in London. Their book on unexplained illness, intimacy and mother-daughter relationships,...

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Art

July 2014

Alice Hattrick

Kristina Buch

Art

July 2014

There are many ways to make sense of the world, through language, speech and text, but also the senses and their extensions. In his...

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Art

June 2014

Opus

Charmian Griffin

Amanda Loomes

Art

June 2014

Bound with animal fat, milk, or blood, Roman concrete is hardened over time. Less water would ordinarily mean a...

fiction

Issue No. 9

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author James Murphy's Notes on Nicola Morelli Berengo

Francesco Pacifico

TR. Livia Franchini

fiction

Issue No. 9

Biography | Cattolicissimo trio composed of mother father beloved son. God, why doesn’t the English language have an equivalent...

poetry

May 2012

Monopoly (after Ashbery)

Sarah Howe

poetry

May 2012

I keep everything until the moment it’s needed. I am the glint in your bank manager’s eye. I never...

 

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