Brian Dillon is the UK editor of Cabinet magazine and teaches creative writing at Queen Mary University of London. His books include Essayism, The Great Explosion (shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize), and In the Dark Room, which won the Irish Book Award for nonfiction.
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When Brian Dillon was sixteen his mother died and he simply gave up all schoolwork. While he courted exam failure, his real education was going on elsewhere: with books, music, films and television. When at last he made it to university, his head was alre... SEE MORE