It's Beginning To Hurt

James Lasdun was born in London and lives in Brooklyn. His novels, memoir, poetry and short-story collections have won many awards, and his essays have appeared in the New York Times, Guardian, London Review of Books and New Yorker, among others.

"James Lasdun is probably the closest in recent years this country has come to a genuinely great practitioner of the short story" Guardian "Elegant, acutely observed and utterly unflinching... Many writers aim to create work that is unsettling, or perhaps even painful - though not, usually, too painful to bear, at least during the actual reading of the tale. Few, however, do it so well as James Lasdun" -- John Burnside The Times "James Lasdun seems to me to be one of the secret gardens of English writing... when we read him we know what language is for" -- James Wood "Highly intelligent, elegantly composed, darkly haunting and greatly moving, few writers could even hope to compare with Lasdun's literary brilliance" Scotsman "Lasdun is a good poet; his prose here is marked by a fine, thoughtful, humane exactness" -- Tom Deveson Sunday Times