Toby Litt

Toby Litt grew up in Ampthill, Bedfordshire. He has worked as a teacher, bookseller and subtitler. A graduate of Malcolm Bradbury’s creative writing course at the University of East Anglia, he is the author of two books of short stories, Adventures in Capitalism and Exhibitionism, and nine novels; most recently Life-Like. He won the Manchester Fiction Prize 2009 with his story ‘John and John’. He teaches at Birkbeck College.

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‘In every word I saw a true untrue Gogol, and I felt joy.’

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

The Reader and Technology

Toby Litt

‘Literature isn’t alien to technology, literature is technological to begin with.’

Fiction | The Online Edition

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Toby Litt

‘I began to think, for no particular reason, about what the exact series of events would be were I to die at that moment – before, even, my coffee went cold.’