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John Patrick Higgins @johnnymuggins.bsky.social · 8d

www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/an-... Wow! Here's a lovely interview I did did with @tylergore.bsky.social for the Washington Independent Review of Books, all about my book Spine. He squeezed a lot out. I was a tube of toothpaste between his expert thumb and forefinger.

An Interview with John Patrick Higgins | Washington Independent Review of Books

The Independent is an important voice in the community of readers and writers dedicated to book reviews and writing about the world of books.

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John Patrick Higgins @johnnymuggins.bsky.social · Jun 23

I have a new website! It's your one-stop-shop for all things Higgins. Read about my books, look at my large, grainy, black and white face, read my thoughts, and the thoughts of the thinking people who think about me.

Step inside, love!

www.johnpatrickhiggins.com

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John Patrick Higgins @johnnymuggins.bsky.social · Jun 17

I shall be venting hard.

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John Patrick Higgins @johnnymuggins.bsky.social · Jun 17

Spine, is out now. It's been called "the funniest book of the year", but it's also an angry, visceral, and ultimately thankful meditation on mortality. With funny jokes.

It's a companion-piece to my previous book, Teeth. So if you enjoyed that, you'll ADORE this one.

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John Patrick Higgins @johnnymuggins.bsky.social · May 12

Spine has thrilled the Gnome Appreciation society! Lovely review in which he notes I call Batman a dick, and have the reviewer chuckling so hard over soup-based antics he upsets his neighbour. Funniest book of the year! What? Just THIS year? I think we can go further than that.

Gnome Appreciation Society @gnomelord.bsky.social · May 11

My review of Spine by @johnnymuggins.bsky.social felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/05/11/s... available from @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social incredibly funny book

Spine by John Patrick Higgins

What Da Cover Says: John Patrick Higgins has been told he’s spineless for as long as he can remember. But if that’s true, why is he obliged to leave an armchair with the nervous trepidation of some…

felcherman.wordpress.com

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John Patrick Higgins @johnnymuggins.bsky.social · Apr 30

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John Patrick Higgins @johnnymuggins.bsky.social · Apr 21

www.popmatters.com/northern-ire... I'm back in Popmatters, with my book, "Fine", being quoted extensively in an article about Jan Carson. For the record, I LIKE Belfast. Great bunch of lads. It's the protagonist who doesn't understand its unique, bracing charm. So we're clear.

In Northern Ireland, Absence Makes the Heart Feel More Deeply » PopMatters

Writers like Jan Carson understand that, in the absence of the Troubles, people of Northern Ireland may not know who they are, culturally or artistically, or may struggle to articulate who they are wi...

www.popmatters.com

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John Patrick Higgins @johnnymuggins.bsky.social · Apr 1

So you get fewer words on here now. But I have so much to say. I mean, I've got nothing RIGHT NOW, but in theory...yeah...

John Patrick Higgins @johnnymuggins.bsky.social · Mar 8

@patsycollins.bsky.social Thrilled my short story, "No Light In The Trees", is featured in Weird Horror number 10, just one of a coterie of curiosities contained therein.

Why not buy a copy? You will never sleep again. FACT.

Never sleep again in a GOOD WAY, obviously.

@undertow.bsky.social

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John Patrick Higgins @johnnymuggins.bsky.social · Mar 1

I am thrilled to be able to share Anne Marie Hantho's beautiful cover to Spine, my new book, coming to your bookshelf this summer. A semi-sequel to Teeth, Spine sees me further cataloguing my failing body parts. What's next, you ask.

Probably best not to ask.

You do NOT want to know.

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John Patrick Higgins @johnnymuggins.bsky.social · Feb 5

Dave Ross.

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John Patrick Higgins @johnnymuggins.bsky.social · Jan 30

Sadly, Alice here does not represent my views.

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John Patrick Higgins @johnnymuggins.bsky.social · Jan 28

Scythes Queens

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John Patrick Higgins @johnnymuggins.bsky.social · Jan 27

That's how you sex up a dystopian future: a small, badly pointed brick wall front and centre of the action.

In the future, you gotta know where your trowel is.

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John Patrick Higgins @johnnymuggins.bsky.social · Jan 26

Shelley Duvall wither iguana, Hasbro. She's adorable.

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John Patrick Higgins @johnnymuggins.bsky.social · Jan 25

Detail of a Roman mosaic, 300-400AD. I think that's Romulus and Remus' lovely mum.

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John Patrick Higgins @johnnymuggins.bsky.social · Jan 22

@popmatters.bsky.social - this is fabulous stuff!

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John Patrick Higgins @johnnymuggins.bsky.social · Jan 21

www.popmatters.com/john-patrick... Review of "Fine" in Popmatters:
"Lines of action are as invisibly elegant and neatly crafted as any one of the writer’s beautiful sentences. Both gut-bruisingly funny and achingly sad. The line between the tragic and the comic is, of course, a fine one." Wow!

John Patrick Higgins' 'Fine' Hangs on in Quiet Desperation » PopMatters

The lives of middle-aged men are to John Patrick Higgins as the statue of Ozymandias was to Shelley: epic, broken, and tragi-comic monuments to quiet desperation.

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John Patrick Higgins @johnnymuggins.bsky.social · Jan 19

felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/01/18/f... Delightful review from the ever-discerning @gnomelord.bsky.social I've always liked gnomes, you know.

Fine by John Patrick Higgins

What Da Cover Says: To hear Paul Reverb tell it, he’s fine. Sure, he’s been caught in a compromising situation by his window cleaner and failed to prevent daylight robbery, and yes, he no longer te…

felcherman.wordpress.com

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John Patrick Higgins @johnnymuggins.bsky.social · Jan 16

The sky is still blue, the clouds come and go, yet something is different.

RIP David Lynch.

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John Patrick Higgins @johnnymuggins.bsky.social · Jan 16

xraylitmag.com/aug-stone-re... Fabulous review of Fine by Aug Stone in @xraylitmag.bsky.social All "wanking and The Smiths"? What am I? 15? Far from it. Far from it.