Wants It :: Lit Alert

I read about Craig Taylor in this month's INTERVIEW.

He's only 32 and looks like a cute accountant.

I want his book.

Big time.

As seen in the Guardian, these short, evocative works based on overheard conversations in cities and towns across the country, Craig Taylor captures the state we’re in with humour and pathos and perfect timing.

A lonely pensioner desperately tries to communicate with a young immigrant; a funeral director’s love of Manchester United proves unhelpful when negotiating with the bereaved; two overly-vigilant mothers wrestle with their paranoia in the queue for Santa’s Grotto; a widow recounts her disastrous return to the world of dating and a father realises his son is growing away from him as he helps him tie his football boots.

Sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking, these tiny plays in which every one of us could have a starring role are windows into other people’s lives that reveal the triumphs, disasters, prejudices, horrors and joys of twenty-first-century life in Britain.

(review is here)

Here's one tiny play in a bookshop.

Here's one tiny play starring bankers. 

They make excellent studies in dialogue construction and are by turns hilarious and poignant.  

Gimme!