Toby Litt (born 1968) is an English writer
Life
Litt was born in
Ampthill, England, in 1968.
He was educated at Bedford Modern School,
[ School of the Black and Red, by A.G. Underwood (1980); updated (2010), p. 286] read English at Worcester College, Oxford and studied Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, where he was taught by
Malcolm Bradbury.
Career
A short story by Litt was included in the anthology
All Hail the New Puritans (2000), edited by
Matt Thorne and
Nicholas Blincoe, and he has edited
The Outcry (2001),
Henry James's last completed novel, for Penguin in the UK.
In 2003 he was nominated by
Granta magazine as one of the 20 "Best of Young British Novelists",
although his work since then has met with mixed reviews, one reviewer in
The Guardian writing that his novel
I Play the Drums in a Band Called Okay "goes on ... and on, and on. There is plenty of story here, but little plot, and no tension."
[Tadzio Koelb, "I Play the Drums in a Band Called okay", The Guardian 27 March 2009 [1]]
Litt edited the 13th edition of New Writing (the British Council's annual anthology of the finest contemporary writing in fiction, non-fiction and poetry)
Litt wrote an interactive short story, using LiveJournal and Twitter, as part of the Penguin Books We Tell Stories project.
Litt was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2023.
Bibliography
Fiction
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Adventures in Capitalism (collection of short stories, 1996, )
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Beatniks (1997, )
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Corpsing (2000, )
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deadkidsongs (2001, )
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Exhibitionism (collection of short stories, 2002, )
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Finding Myself (2003, )
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Ghost Story (2004, )
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Hospital, (2007, )
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I Play the Drums in a Band Called Okay (2008, )
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Journey into Space (2009, )
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King Death (2010, )
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Lilian's Spell Book (2013, )
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Life-Like (2014, )
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Monster (in The Book of Other People, ed. Zadie Smith, 2007)
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Notes For A Young Gentleman (2018, )
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O (short stories - exists)
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Patience (2019, )
Comic books
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Dead Boy Detectives (2014)
Non-fiction
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