In the sixth episode of the MIR Podcast, Peter J Coles talks to author Mazin Saleem about his debut novel ‘The Prick’. They discuss what it means to be a terrible person, middle-class malaise, and the crisis of masculinity.
Show Notes:
Mazin Saleem
Open Pen
Strange Horizons
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Fight Club
The Cable Guy
At Swim, Two Birds by Brian O’Nolan
Les Murray
Wonderbook by Jeff Vandermeer
The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Open Pen Novelette Series
This podcast was produced and edited by Peter J Coles
Mazin Saleem is an author from Manchester currently living in London. He has written short fiction for Litro Magazine, The Literateur, Pornokitsch, Open pen, and more, and is a regular reviewer at Strange Horizons. His first book The prick is out now with Open Pen.