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A Hack’s Life |

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Henning Koch – Spare Time Thinking. Archive A Hack’s Life. RSS feed for this section. The Modern American Great Novel. There is something bogus about the title, and those of you who have spotted this have a good ear for irony. Why? Well, because there can certainly be such a thing as a “modern novel” or “an American novel” or a “modern American novel” but to refer to a sub-set known as “the modern American. And my baby left me…”. And who cares where it is from? It has become a sort of mantra of our weary...

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July | 2015 |

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Henning Koch – Spare Time Thinking. Archive July, 2015. I Had a Bad Dream the Other Night. I saw heat, I saw the air quivering with it, I saw thirst. I saw Russian trucks and bulldozers building deep-water ports all along the northern coast, ready for what they believed would be the next boom in shipping. I saw soldiers, planes, runways. In preparation for war. In South America, I saw enormous inflows of money from China and the BRICS, railways cut through pristine jungles, oil wells sunk in Amazonia and...

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September | 2014 |

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Henning Koch – Spare Time Thinking. Archive September, 2014. The Bones – Part 3. Some people always have to give you the run-around. They reveal a few things, then back off, gloat at you, tell you it’s meaningless anyway. It’s a way of making themselves feel important. People want to be cornerstones not stepping-stones. But when you think about it, what’s a house without a staircase? You’d be better off not building it in the first place. Wyre was right, it. The whisky came out smelling like an old shoe.

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August | 2014 |

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Henning Koch – Spare Time Thinking. Archive August, 2014. The Modern Reader, What’s That? Publishing a book these days is like watching a man falling off a building, hurriedly shrieking a last message to his stunned friends on the roof before he’s dashed against the pavement. On my way out, I’m stopped in my tracks by the very inviting magazine rack at St. George’s. I locate the Spring 2010 issue of. Article, which has now turned to the struggle of the mighty. To meet the challenge of the online environm...

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January | 2015 |

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Henning Koch – Spare Time Thinking. Archive January, 2015. All the facts about the Russian campaign in Ukraine are clear, although Western media is still reluctant to call a spade a spade. After all, journalistic standards demand that one must report on what each side is saying. Russia blocks UN statement. Certainly the West has its failings, but I simply don’t understand why Europe should be considered so much worse than Russia, China or other powers. As Europeans, I think we have to ask ourselves how i...

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Biography |

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Henning Koch – Spare Time Thinking. Henning Koch was born in Sweden in 1962 but has spent most of his life in England, Spain, and Sardinia. He is a writer, screenwriter, and literary translator. In 2011, Dzanc published “Love Doesn’t Work”. His short story collection. “The Maggot People”. Available from November 2014, is his first published novel. He lives in Berlin with his partner and their two-year-old son. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Address never made public). Bringing you t...

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Fiction Writing |

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Henning Koch – Spare Time Thinking. RSS feed for this section. The Modern American Great Novel. There is something bogus about the title, and those of you who have spotted this have a good ear for irony. Why? Well, because there can certainly be such a thing as a “modern novel” or “an American novel” or a “modern American novel” but to refer to a sub-set known as “the modern American. And my baby left me…”. And who cares where it is from? The Bones – Part 9. After they’d followed the stream around a few ...

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November | 2013 |

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Henning Koch – Spare Time Thinking. Archive November, 2013. China, the Land Led Astray by Logic. First, let me show you a photograph of these excellent fellows, standing in front of just the sort of backdrop they’d prefer to demolish and replace with a very large factory or hydro-electric dam:. Water in China: Desperate measures. China’s New High-Speed Rail network. Liu Zhijun, Railway Minister, on Trial for Corruption. The Chinese Move into Patagonia. Lung Cancer Incidence Soars in Beijing. Marcus Speh ...

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Books |

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Henning Koch – Spare Time Thinking. RSS feed for this section. The Door Handle is Depressed – Ten Years Translating the Nordic Crime Wave. The only way, as we have seen, was by sticking religiously to genre, because genre is a narrow corridor through which we see everything or even the long lens of a telescope, picking out the required details at the expense of all else. How different everything is now from those primitive days! Crime would become our bread and butter. There was something heroic, if also...

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Opinions |

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Henning Koch – Spare Time Thinking. RSS feed for this section. I Had a Bad Dream the Other Night. I saw heat, I saw the air quivering with it, I saw thirst. I saw Russian trucks and bulldozers building deep-water ports all along the northern coast, ready for what they believed would be the next boom in shipping. I saw soldiers, planes, runways. In preparation for war. In South America, I saw enormous inflows of money from China and the BRICS, railways cut through pristine jungles, oil wells sunk in Amazo...