{"id":1201,"date":"2013-05-23T19:15:20","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T18:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/?p=1201"},"modified":"2013-05-23T19:15:20","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T18:15:20","slug":"lecturer-publishes-new-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/2013\/05\/23\/lecturer-publishes-new-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecturer publishes new novel"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Deconstruction of Professor Thrub<\/em>, the second novel by University of Gloucestershire Creative Writing lecturer D.D. Johnston, is now available to pre-order from retailers including Amazon<\/a> and Waterstones<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The novel<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Cover<\/a>The novel, to be published in June, was originally written as a doctoral thesis at the University of Gloucestershire. It’s presented as a PhD that\u2019s been written by an eccentric, love-sick student, who is supervised by an even more eccentric professor. It asks big questions about the limits of free will, how social change is possible, and the pitfalls of Kantian metaphysics. It interweaves fact and fiction, plays with \u2018fraudulent artifacts\u2019 (to borrow the phrase coined by David Shields and Matthew Vollmer), quotes psychology papers, and satirises our socio-historical moment. It crashes around the twentieth century, trying to write history in a way that recognises the interminable chain of cause and effect. But it\u2019s also a campus novel that\u2019s full of laughs and scandal and appalling behaviour. It\u2019s a big historical epic that charts the rise and fall of revolutionary optimism. And above all else, it\u2019s a love story.<\/p>\n

The Publisher<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"barbican_press_logo\"<\/a>Barbican Press<\/a> is a new publishing venture based in London and Hull. Its directors are Martin Goodman \u2013 award winning author of fiction and non-fiction, and BBC New Generation Thinker \u2013 and James Thornton \u2013 the CEO of Client Earth, whom New Statesman<\/em> named as one of ten people who can change the world. The Deconstruction of Professor Thrub<\/em> will launch Barbican Press\u2019s Doctored Books series: novels written in universities as part of PhD creative writing programmes. They say: \u2018We\u2019re looking for modern classics \u2013 books so different they can always seem new. Books that rose to so many challenges they forgot to compromise. Books with minds of their own for readers with minds of their own. If you\u2019re a reader who doesn\u2019t need pandering to, whose life has been shaped by books that dared to be different \u2013 welcome to your new home!\u2019 You can follow Barbican Press\u2019s evolution on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Author<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"DDJohnston1compressed\"<\/a>D.D. Johnston lives in Cheltenham and works at the University of Gloucestershire, where he is a University Teaching Fellow and a lecturer in Creative Writing. You can read his Q&A about the new book<\/a> on the Barbican Press website. He is currently trying, and failing, to understand the world of social media; he blogs at ddjohnston.org<\/a>, and you can follow him on twitter @dd_johnston<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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