HP Tinker
Encyclopedia
HP Tinker is a Manchester-based short story writer whose avant garde fiction has frequently been compared to Borges and Donald Barthelme
. In 2007, Time Out called him an "unsung comic genius" and he has famously been referred to as "the Thomas Pynchon
of Chorlton-cum-Hardy
".
Initially championed by Martin Bax
at Ambit
, novelist Nicholas Royle
and 3:AM Magazine
s Andrew Gallix, he was considered a key member of the Offbeat generation
His collection of short fiction, The Swank Bisexual Wine Bar of Modernity (2007), became an instant underground classic on its release and earned Tinker cult author status. The book has now been translated and published as La Ostentosa Bodeguita Bisexual de la Modernidad by progressive Spanish publisher El Tercer Nombre.
The Times has praised his "hilarious deadpan surrealism", The Independent thought him "unusual, arresting, smart and very funny" and The Guardian remarked that he "fizzes with the kind of zany, surreal conjunctions that recall Barthelme and Pynchon in their prime".
In 2010 HP Tinker appeared in the 200th edition of Ambit
magazine alongside Sir Peter Blake
and Jonathan Lethem
.
The Swank Bisexual Wine Bar of Modernity (Social Disease, 2007)
Anthologies
Dreams Never End (Tindal St Press, 2004)
The Edgier Waters: Five Years of 3:AM (Snow Books, 2006)
Expletive Deleted (Bleak House Books, 2007)
The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime (Robinson Publishing, 2009)
Bloody Vampires (Glasshouse Books, 2010)
Translation
La Ostentosa Bodeguita Bisexual de la Modernidad (El Tercer Nombre, 2010)
Donald Barthelme
Donald Barthelme was an American author known for his playful, postmodernist style of short fiction. Barthelme also worked as a newspaper reporter for the Houston Post, managing editor of Location magazine, director of the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston , co-founder of Fiction Donald...
. In 2007, Time Out called him an "unsung comic genius" and he has famously been referred to as "the Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. is an American novelist. For his most praised novel, Gravity's Rainbow, Pynchon received the National Book Award, and is regularly cited as a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature...
of Chorlton-cum-Hardy
Chorlton-cum-Hardy
Chorlton-cum-Hardy is a suburban area of the city of Manchester, England. It is known locally as Chorlton. It is situated about four miles southwest of Manchester city centre. Pronunciation varies: and are both common....
".
Initially championed by Martin Bax
Martin Bax
Martin Bax is a British consultant paediatrician, who, in addition to his medical career, founded the Arts magazine Ambit in 1959. He lives in London and continues to practice, and edit Ambit, along with Kate Pemberton and Geoff Nicholson. Since he created it, Ambit has published poetry, prose and...
at Ambit
Ambit (magazine)
Ambit is a literary periodical published in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1959 by Dr Martin Bax, a London paediatrician.Uniting art, prose, poetry and reviews, the magazine appears quarterly and is distributed internationally. Notable Ambit contributors have included J. G. Ballard, Eduardo...
, novelist Nicholas Royle
Nicholas Royle
Nicholas Royle is an English novelist.Born in Manchester, Royle has written five novels - Counterparts, Saxophone Dreams, The Matter of the Heart, The Director’s Cut and Antwerp. He also claims to have written more than 100 short stories, which have appeared in a variety of anthologies and...
and 3:AM Magazine
3:AM Magazine
3:AM Magazine is a literary magazine, which was set up as 3ammagazine.com in April 2000 and is edited from Paris. Its editor-in-chief since inception has been Andrew Gallix, a lecturer at the Sorbonne ....
s Andrew Gallix, he was considered a key member of the Offbeat generation
Offbeat generation
The Offbeat generation was a loose association of like-minded writers working across different styles but united by their opposition to a mainstream publishing industry driven by marketing departments...
His collection of short fiction, The Swank Bisexual Wine Bar of Modernity (2007), became an instant underground classic on its release and earned Tinker cult author status. The book has now been translated and published as La Ostentosa Bodeguita Bisexual de la Modernidad by progressive Spanish publisher El Tercer Nombre.
The Times has praised his "hilarious deadpan surrealism", The Independent thought him "unusual, arresting, smart and very funny" and The Guardian remarked that he "fizzes with the kind of zany, surreal conjunctions that recall Barthelme and Pynchon in their prime".
In 2010 HP Tinker appeared in the 200th edition of Ambit
Ambit (magazine)
Ambit is a literary periodical published in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1959 by Dr Martin Bax, a London paediatrician.Uniting art, prose, poetry and reviews, the magazine appears quarterly and is distributed internationally. Notable Ambit contributors have included J. G. Ballard, Eduardo...
magazine alongside Sir Peter Blake
Peter Blake (artist)
Sir Peter Thomas Blake, KBE, CBE, RDI, RA is an English pop artist, best known for his design of the sleeve for the Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. He lives in Chiswick, London, UK.-Career:...
and Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Allen Lethem is an American novelist, essayist and short story writer. His first novel, Gun, with Occasional Music, a genre work that mixed elements of science fiction and detective fiction, was published in 1994. It was followed by three more science fiction novels...
.
Works
FictionThe Swank Bisexual Wine Bar of Modernity (Social Disease, 2007)
Anthologies
Dreams Never End (Tindal St Press, 2004)
The Edgier Waters: Five Years of 3:AM (Snow Books, 2006)
Expletive Deleted (Bleak House Books, 2007)
The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime (Robinson Publishing, 2009)
Bloody Vampires (Glasshouse Books, 2010)
Translation
La Ostentosa Bodeguita Bisexual de la Modernidad (El Tercer Nombre, 2010)
External links
- HP Tinker's Literary Top Ten at Pulp.Net
- Ambit editor Martin Bax interviewed by HP Tinker for 3:AM Magazine http://www.3ammagazine.com/litarchives/2002_jun/interview_martin_bax.html
- Writing a Rothko: An Interview With HP Tinker by Chris Killen http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/writing-a-rothko-an-interview-with-hp-tinker/
- Excerpts From The Extraordinary Autobiography of Mister HPT by HP Tinker at Everday Genius.http://www.everyday-genius.com/2009/10/hp-tinker.html
- Conspiracy of Eunuchs: a HP Tinker website http://www.hptinker.co.uk