L-R: Stewart Home, Steve Aylett, J.J.Connolly, Nicholas Blincoe, Stella Duffy, Michael Moorcock, Steve Beard, Tim Etchells, Billy Childish, Jenny Valentish, China Miéville, Tony White, Darren Francis. So, what was so special, different and iconic about ‘brit pulp’, which was published in 1999 and edited by author Tony White? After leaving art school and moving to London I’d been writing short autofictions that weren’t really going anywhere, dozens of them. And through my cleaning job I found out someone had two spare tickets for both nights of Laurie Anderson’s epic performance art work United States I-IV at the Dominion Theatre. Right now, I’m writing this in the midst of another inevitable heatwave across the UK, so I’m listening to the stuttering rhythmic squeak of the oscillating mechanism on a pedestal fan.