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	Toby Litt
		Toby Litt was born in Bedfordshire, England, in 1968.
		Toby Litt's second novel Corpsing (2000), his most successful to date, is a slick, snappy London thriller, dealing with the surprising consequences of an out-of-the-blue shooting in a trendy London restaurant.
		Litt's most recent book, Exhibitionism (2002), is a collection of pieces of short fiction, many of which have Sex as a common theme (of which the best is probably the quirky On the etiquette of eye-contact during oral sex).
	www.contemporarywriters.com /authors/?p=auth243 (1341 words)

	authortrek.com - Corpsing by Toby Litt
		Toby Litt does indeed have aspirations to become such a screenwriter, and it appears that this novel has been successfully optioned as a film.
		Toby Litt spares no blushing pigmentation, no internal and bruising detail as he describes how Conrad and his girlfriend, Lily, are literally blown to bits.
		Litt very cleverly places his narrator into such situation, something that each of his readers will have fantasized about in one way or another, albeit as a worst case scenario.
	www.authortrek.com /corpsing.html (1107 words)

	'Corpsing': A Thriller, With Literary Special Effects
		In a now-familiar postmodern ploy, Litt provides us with a collection of interpolated documents loosely related to the narrative, including Conrad's hospital admissions report, a tabloid news clipping about the shooting and even some specious ad copy from the makers of the crime weapon.
		Litt takes pains throughout to fulfill the page-turning requirements of the genre, and as his hero begins to unravel the daisy chain of deceptions behind what he thought was a love relationship, the narrative remains propulsive.
		Litt tries on attitudes the way some people try on shoes, walking a few steps in each, no matter how uncomfortable, before turning to the next.
	home.att.net /~gkrist/Corpsing.html (895 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Review \| Ghost lit
		Litt cries a lot for a boy, and seems to notice what his girlfriend might be thinking.
		Whatever the arguments for and against such intimate soul-baring, Litt's first-person human drama, with its accompanying beast-tales, moves and intrigues and cracks along at a galloping old pace.
		As the story continues, mice and toddler Max sporadically appear, the tragedy of Agatha's pregnancy becomes clearer, and the small manifestations of her mental breakdown are catalogued in unbroken paragraphs that run to eight pages.
	books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,,1317050,00.html (740 words)

	authortrek.com - Toby Litt page Toby Litt bibliography
		Toby Litt was born in Bedford in 1968, and grew up in nearby Ampthill.
		Toby Litt had started his literary adventures by writing poetry, but by the time he left university, he began to move more into prose.
		A Toby Litt short story was also included in the anthology “All Hail the New Puritans” in 2000.
	www.authortrek.com /toby_litt_page.html (455 words)

	Who Is Toby Litt? 01/01/01 - LeftLion Nottingham Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Whether Victoria had been made from a little bit of Toby...or Toby had absorbed a little bit of Victoria, it is difficult to believe that finding himself in virtually the same circumstance as her, he would not experience more than a little de ja vu and perhaps start to think some of the same things.
		In "Adventures in Capitalism" Litt was stepping outside of himself and into his lottery winning character to help us see what goes on commercially and perhaps take a step back from it ourselves.
		The preface of the book is the true story of Toby and Leigh: The author and his girlfriend - and the consecutive deaths of their three unborn babies.
	www.leftlion.co.uk /articles.cfm/id/394 (909 words)

	The Observer \| Review \| Observer review: Exhibitionism by Toby Litt
		Together, and aided by Litt's skilful adoption of a new voice for each, they make up a coherent body of work, standing together as they stand alone.
		It's a brilliantly funny psychoanalytic affair which obliterates the suggestion that Litt should be consigned to the Lad-lit bargain-bin.
		Reflecting on the summer of 1978 in 'Of the Third Kind', young Martin sits speechless before the inquisition that is his mother and notes: 'There was no way I could tell her how much I loved her or how far away from her I wanted to be.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,6903,656038,00.html (618 words)

	Toby Litt - enCompass Culture
		Toby Litt is a London-based writer whose acclaimed books of fiction include Corpsing, deadkidsongs, Exhibitionism, and, most recently, Finding Myself.
		Visitors to the enCompass site were given the opportunity to submit questions as part of this interview, hosted by reader in residence Susan Tranter, which took place in March 2004.
		The novelist is the most disciplined, so he gets me most of the time; the short story writer is the most importunate, so he can shut the novelist up if he feels like it; the poet is the most timid, and doesn’t like all the fighting — he’s also the oldest.
	www.encompassculture.com /readerinresidence/authors/tobylitt (1532 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Exhibitionism: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Many of the tales in Toby Litt's collection Exhibitionism are "sexual comedies"; and Litt has that rarest of literary gifts: an ability to write about sex in an unsentimental, non-pornographic, un-cringe-making way.
		Litt's bestselling novels, like Deadkidsongs and Beatniks have proved he's a dab hand at examining generational angst and masculine hang-ups; this impressive collection of short stories shows he has other talents, too.--Sean Thomas --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
		Entertaining throughout, Toby Litt's ability to catch the reader off guard is uncanny and casts a horoscope writers view over our own mental sexual misadventures and sanity.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0141009675 (492 words)

	Telegraph \| Entertainment \| A writer's life: Toby Litt
		Physically, he seems to be so gently compartmentalised into oval podules: the feet tucked into small, neat shoes; the well-tended hands curling carefully around each other; the remarkably smooth skin of his face.
		It involved a keyboard which had reprogrammed rhythms and the guy who led that band would press more than one key so you'd get something that was half a samba, half a march.
		But by naming his heroine Agatha, Litt is almost teasing us with the impossibility of a swept-up outcome.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml;sessionid=LAABV2KJPQU2XQFIQMFSM5WAVCBQ0JVC?xml=/arts/2004/10/10/bolitt.xml&sSheet=/arts/2004/10/10/bomain.html (1258 words)

	nthposition online magazine: deadkidsongs
		Toby Litt is the author of Adventures in Capitalism, Beatniks and Corpsing.
		I arranged to meet Toby Litt in the foyer of the British Library by the metal bench in the shape of an open book, rather unnecessarily tethered to the marble floor by a large ball and chain.
		Litt has done a number of Internet and hypertext projects, and his most recent book, deadkidsongs, is also being published as an ebook.
	www.nthposition.com /deadkidsongs.php (1288 words)

	Corpsing by Toby Litt
		Toby Litt's third book is all bullet entry wounds, violent emotion and forensic detail.
		Toby Litt uses Conrad to provide an extra twist to the usual serpentine story.
		He, like Litt, is very aware of the etiquette of cool violence, a cultural culling that takes in J F K succumbing to the "magic bullet", Bonnie and Clyde, The Godfather, and, of course, Reservoir Dogs.
	www.fantasticfiction.co.uk /l/toby-litt/corpsing.htm (245 words)

	EXHIBITIONISM - Toby Litt - Penguin Readers
		His combination of verbal fluency with a genius for intriguing plot is enviable.
		‘Litt impresses and hits hard with images that are rooted firmly in reality.
		Together, and aided by Litt’s skilful adoption of a new voice for each, [these stories] make up a coherent body of work, standing together as they stand alone.’
	readers.penguin.co.uk /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,5_9780141006536,00.html (193 words)

	The Walberberg seminar - British Council Germany
		He read English at Worcester College, Oxford, and studied Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia where he was taught by Malcolm Bradbury, winning the 1995 Curtis Brown Fellowship.
		He is the author of "Beatniks: An English Road Movie" (1997), a modern On the Road transposed to middle-England; "Corpsing" (2000), a thriller set in London 's Soho ; "Deadkidsongs" (2001), a dark tale of childhood and "Exhibitionism" (2002), a collection of short stories that explore the boundaries of sex and sexuality.
		A short story by Toby Litt was included in the anthology "All Hail the New Puritans" (2000).
	www.britishcouncil.de /e/walberberg/litt05.htm (225 words)

	Montreal Mirror : Books : Finding Myself
		Victoria is the narrator of Finding Myself, Toby Litt's uneven, meandering, but often very funny satire of chick lit.
		Litt is one of Britain's rising stars, author of deadkidsongs, Exhibitionism and Ghost Story.
		At the same time, he can't entirely hide his affection for Victoria and her desperation to be that impossible thing, a powerful and important writer.
	www.montrealmirror.com /2005/063005/books.html (669 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Deadkidsongs: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		With his novels Corpsing and Beatniks, young Brit Lit gunslinger Toby Litt showed he had mastered the essentials of the trendy bestseller.
		Then their clumsy and wistfully innocent Arcadia is overturned when one of them dies; from there the narrative unravels until the reader is not sure who is telling what to whom, nor quite how reliable the teller might be.
		To recapture a lost childhood is ambitious enough; Litt's aim is to do that and then some: he wants to say profound things about masculinity, nostalgia, violence and nationhood.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0140285784 (993 words)

	Amazon.com: Beatniks: Books: Toby Litt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		This tender first novel by Litt (Adventures in Capitalism) is narrated by Mary, a mid-'90s college graduate, living with her parents in the heart of England and bored beyond belief.
		As the two make their tense drive across the country, they are forced, finally, to shed their poses as they reckon with Neal's disappearance and the messiness of their free-love experiment.
		Toby Litt writes a female character so well I felt slightly duped that he is a man.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0714530832?v=glance (912 words)

	Deadkidsongs - Toby Litt - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		With the death of one of the Gang (as they call themselves), the war games escalate, directed now against the adults they hold responsible for the loss of one of their soldiers.
		Toby Litt is becoming synonymous with modern British 'hip lit', and while he is a genuinely talented writer, there are times in Deadkidsongs when it feels like Litt is trying too hard to remain trendy, and ensure himself of a good review in The Guardian.
		In all honesty, this must be one of the most terrifying novels I've come across for a long time, indeed it was so engaging that time simply ceased to become relevant (even less than usual) to my world until the final page was turned.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/deadkidsongs-toby-litt (292 words)

	Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind: A shitstorm in the making
		The latest edition of the NEW WRITING anthology series sponsored by the British Council was co-edited by Toby Litt and Ali Smith, and as reported by the Guardian, their introduction to the collection is making many folks quite unhappy:
		In the introduction to 13, a collection of poetry, short stories and extracts from novels, published by Picador, the authors Toby Litt and Ali Smith make a sweeping condemnation of the subject matter, writing style and preoccupations of female writers.
		Litt, the author of several books including Corpsing and deadkidsongs, and Smith, the Scottish writer who has been shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Booker Prize, sifted through numerous submissions from women writers.
	www.sarahweinman.com /confessions/2005/03/a_shitstorm_in_.html (1287 words)

	Toby Litt - Penguin Group (New Zealand) Authors - Penguin Group (New Zealand)
		Toby Litt, 'one of the foremost young lions of British hip-lit' (Guardian) takes us to the fl, brutal heart of childhood in Deadkidsongs.
		Equally exciting and terrifying, this is a journey into casual, youthful violence and gang mentality.
		In an exclusive interview, we asked Toby his thoughts on childhood nastiness.
	www.penguin.co.nz /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000046592,00.html (949 words)

	Amazon.com: Corpsing: Books: Toby Litt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Toby Litt is the foremost young lion of British hip-lit.
		Litt will have you racing through the book to discover who murdered Lily, and why.
		Litt spares no bruising detail as he describes how Conrad and his girlfriend, Lily, are literally blown apart.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0714530689?v=glance (1181 words)

	Welcome To BookEnds, The Book Pl@ce Magazine
		Toby Litt has been dubbed "Britain's answer to Douglas Coupland" by various critics.
		For the next two years Litt worked in a bookshop, hawking his novel round, to no avail.
		Since then, Litt, 32, has become one of the rising stars of the Brit-lit scene.
	www.thebookplace.com /bookends/chat/litt.asp?TAG=&CID= (1884 words)

	Print Version
		Toby Litt will read from his work at the Festival van Vlaanderen and there will be installation of his story, The Audioguide at BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts (see below).
		During the Klara Festival van Vlaanderen this Sepetember, there will be an installation of this story in one of the exhibition halls of the BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts.
		Toby Litt will also read from his work at the festival.
	www.britishcouncil.org /print-page?id=527805 (282 words)

	DEADKIDSONGS - Toby Litt - Penguin Readers
		Gang resolves to seek revenge, and "Operation Extinction" is born.
		Litt constructs a unique voice for each character as he relays the story from each point of view.
		Andrew, the leader, is violent and arrogant; Peter is the nerd, the archivist and the first to have an official girlfriend; Paul, is ‘cursed’ by a pacifist father, and troubled by Gang’s morality; while Matthew, by virtue of being everyone’s friend, seems doomed from the outset.
	readers.penguin.co.uk /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,5_9780140285789,00.html (7114 words)

	The Observer \| Review \| Observer review: 13 - New Writing edited by Toby Litt and Ali Smith
		Toby Litt and Ali Smith have collected a fine cross-section of new writing in Picador's latest anthology, says Stephanie Merritt
		This latest anthology of new writing from Picador grabbed itself some space in the news pages recently because its editors, Toby Litt and Ali Smith, used their introduction to make a gross generalisation about women writers - 'Disappointingly domestic...
		As the editors say: 'Originality is only proven over time, paradoxically', but it's also true that being surreal and quirky are not the only, nor the highest, literary values.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,6903,1461519,00.html (272 words)

	On the road with two hip cats / Aspiring writers from Britain try to live out their beatnik dreams in Toby Litt's novel
		They live carefully controlled lives, filtering out anything that does not reflect the sensibility of the '60s, which, by the way, is very curious because the setting of "On the Road," their supposed textbook and bible, is the '50s.
		And while the interior of the actual hotel is a surreal explosion of hallucinatory decor (imagine an SRO designed by Salvador Dali), all that Litt can think to say of this historic and notorious literary haunt is that the room has a TV.
		There and then any San Franciscan knows that Litt is writing chiefly through his hat, or, shall we say, beret, because there ain't no such beast in North Beach as a cheap room, period.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2002/12/22/RV113294.DTL (1025 words)

	Corpsing - Toby Litt - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		Throughout the book i remained gripped by the unpredictable sequences within the storyline and the complexities of the characters, even the characters which die in the first chapter.
		Toby Litt creates a constant atmosphere which changes suitably with the mood of the main character as he slowly starts to,...
		Until the night she invited Conrad to dinner in an expensive London restaurant and was shot dead in front of him, by a lycra-clad cyclist-gunman, who planted three bullets in Conrad too, for good measure.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/corpsing-toby-litt (300 words)

	Penguin Classics: Features
		Toby Litt discusses the theme of self-thinking in Joris-Karl Huysmans's Against Nature
		He grew up in Ampthill, Bedfordshire and is the author of Adventures in Capitalism, Beatniks, Corpsing, Deadkidsongs and Exhibitionism.
		You can visit Toby Litt's own website at www.tobylitt.com.
	www.penguinclassics.co.uk /nf/shared/WebDisplay/0,,138475_1_10,00.html (1276 words)

	Contacts and Spokespeople - Spokespeople
		She is available to comment on all matters relating to contemporary popular culture, food and the arts.
		TOBY LITT has been hailed as 'the most exciting young talent on the literary scene' by the Independent, an opinion underlined by the great reviews received for his most recent novel, Finding Myself.
		A leading light amongst a new generation of talented literary writers, he is available for comment on modern pop culture and new and classic literature.
	pressoffice.penguin.co.uk /nf/shared/SharedDisplay/0,,151329_1_14,00.html (5319 words)

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