Gordon Burn 1948-2009

Gordon Burn 1948-2009


Gordon Burn

"There is an excess of information, making us prisoners of the news…It is as if history had caught up with us in the form of the news…Yesterdays news becomes history, already just barely perceptible. It ages more rapidly than fashion, of which it is an accelerated form."

Sad to hear that the author Gordon Burn has died. I'd only recently discovered his work and immediately felt as if I'd stumbled across something vital and charged, visceral. There is a short piece in commemoration over at The Guardian.

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