Charlie Porter is a writer, critic and curator. He is the author of two acclaimed nonfiction books: What Artists Wear, Bring No Clothes and Bloomsbury and the Philosophy of Fashion, and a Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novel, Nova Scotia House. He lives in London.

Nova Scotia House is one of the best things I've read in many many years; it is an extraordinary work of the imagination, and there is so much heart and longing in it that it filled my soul. It is a completely imagined work--a kind of gay dystopian story that isn't, a search for family that ends up being a multiple love story about creation. And I want to point out something as powerful as the narrative: the sheer writing force of it. Sentences that reordered my reading DNA from the first, colloquial sentences that are highly literary, a kind of queering of Beckett, a new way of seeing and writing that is not anyone else's but Porter’s own. I am really knocked out by this book. It is a profound work

Charlie Porter is a writer, critic and curator. He is the author of two acclaimed nonfiction books: What Artists Wear, Bring No Clothes and Bloomsbury and the Philosophy of Fashion, and a Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novel, Nova Scotia House. He lives in London.

Nova Scotia House is one of the best things I've read in many many years; it is an extraordinary work of the imagination, and there is so much heart and longing in it that it filled my soul. It is a completely imagined work--a kind of gay dystopian story that isn't, a search for family that ends up being a multiple love story about creation. And I want to point out something as powerful as the narrative: the sheer writing force of it. Sentences that reordered my reading DNA from the first, colloquial sentences that are highly literary, a kind of queering of Beckett, a new way of seeing and writing that is not anyone else's but Porter’s own. I am really knocked out by this book. It is a profound work