Julian Gough & Jeremy fernando

On All Hallows' Eve 2014, Julian and Jeremy sat --- alongside a lovely crowd at Tembusu College, NUS -- and chatted about books, writing, literature, and goats ....

Julian Gough writes serious novels disguised as funny novels. And also the narrative at the end of Minecraft. He has been known to win prizes (the BBC National Short Story Award in 2007, for instance). And steal pigs. Born in London, raised a long long way in Tipperary, Julian was edumicated in Galway, and is currently living in Berlin. In keeping with form, as a young’un Julian was the lyricist and lead singer in a band. Toasted Heretic. And had a Top-10 hit — ‘Galway & Los Angeles’ — about an encounter with Sinead O’Connor in a revolving door. His work — 4 novels, numerous short stories, poems, novellas, songs, newspaper columns, general scribbly things — and quite possibly his self, is an imaginative war against all kinds of drudgery and lazy thinking. And it has the mark of brilliant madness that one finds only in the very best forms of art. Along the way, Julian has also rather graciously found the time to once save the publishing industry (New York Times, 2009).