BOOKS! BOOKS! BOOKS!
- Editor
- Mar 5, 2024
- 2 min read
Updated: Jan 14
NEW BOOK OUT MATE!
INTERVIEW by Cornucopia Blancmange
12 years after his book writing debut, author WEY HO is back.
Here he talks about how he got asked if he wanted to help set up a karate school by some guy who sat next to him on a bus and why he’s building a coffee shop in his back garden.
In 2008, when WEY HO was 41, his debut novel GARY – about a 28 year old man called Gary who attaches clothes pegs to his nipples in a bid to have something to talk about next time he’s forced to spend a weekend of his life at someone’s wedding he barely knows, had every guy or gal in publishing spraying genital juice everywhere in 4 minute intervals.
The near universal acclaim for a novel about a dull man who opens his mind to enquiry won every literary prize going and had HO’s own genitals “spurting like a geyser after a 17 year drought.”
HO now returns with 'BRIAN AND OTHER TERRITORIES' – a 46 page comic exploration of his desire to find the best toilets to have a shit in Leeds – a journey expressed in verse after verse of deliberately awful poetry [“it’s fucking terrible”] HO insists, “but I think its saved my life.”
HO’s new opus throbs with a furious desire for people working on laptops in café’s and shared public spaces to “shut the fuck up and have some consideration for literally anyone else.”
“Coffee shops are hell on earth!” HO exclaims. “Why do people imagine their lives are so fascinating that everyone wants to hear about it? Broadcasting some tedious conversation they recently had as if it’s the most important thing that’s EVER happened, like an actor projecting from a stage? If its not that its some dickhead in headphones shouting inane business bollocks to some other bellend on a zoom call. Their lives are so boring. How do they live them? I can’t take it anymore. I’m building a coffee shop at the back of my house and that’ll be my workspace. I’ll have my own coffee machine so I don’t have to charge myself £4 everytime I want a hot drink and a toastie maker so I don’t have to charge myself £4 for a sandwich and I’ll retreat into a world of imagination and peace and quiet – something that wanker who sat near me yesterday shouting things he doesn’t believe in and has no passion for will never have even if he started listening to a podcast about Carthage and Ancient Rome.”
‘BRIAN AND OTHER TERRITORIES’ is available now.
Cornucopia Blancmange
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