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Lee Rourke

Lee Rourke is the author of the short story collection Everyday (Social Disease Books) and the novel The Canal (Melville House). He is contributing editor for 3:AM Magazine and also blogs at SPONGE!. He lives in London.

November 2012

  • Diverging footprints

    Books blog
    Endless fascination: in praise of novels without neat conclusions

    Tidy narrative closure may be entertaining, but loose ends and ambiguity offer a truer sense of real life

September 2012

  • orchestra

    Infinity: The Story of a Moment by Gabriel Josipovici – review

    The compassionate story of a composer's life intrigues Lee Rourke

November 2011

  • Handwriting

    Why creative writing is better with a pen

    Lee Rourke

    Lee Rourke: Not only is longhand a much more portable way to write, it's also much more individual

July 2011

  • The Book Barge

    A bookshop going places

    Lee Rourke

    Lee Rourke: Although it's geared to a much easier-going kind of shopping than we're used to, the Book Barge is a genuinely dynamic enterprise

September 2010

  • Lee Rourke and Tom McCarthy

    In conversation: Lee Rourke and Tom McCarthy

    In conversation: Lee Rourke, shortlisted online by Guardian readers for our Not the Booker prize, meets Tom McCarthy, shortlisted for the real Man Booker, to talk about Kafka, Twitter and causing controversy

January 2010

  • Shelves full of books

    Books blog
    Shelf indulgence: why it's best to build your own bookcases

    After years of making do with shoddy shelving, the benefits of handcrafting a home for your books can't be overestimated

June 2009

  • Meeting the werewolf

    Review: The Sacred Book of the Werewolf by Victor Pelevin
    Although the proto-Nietzschean philosophising may feel artificial, its worth the effort, says Lee Rourke

November 2008

  • The Courilof Affair

    Review: The Courilof Affair by Irène Némirovsky
    Lee Rourke finds a fictional picture that resonates deep in the contemporary mind

October 2008

  • Booker shortlist 2008

    Books blog
    Has bad philosophy killed the Booker prize?

    Lee Rourke: The British fear of esoteric thinking has left our Booker shortlist an embarrassing failure

September 2008

  • Books blog
    Time to rediscover the glory of chapbooks

    The booklets have been spreading the literary word for more than 450 years and they still have the power to delight and inform in equal measure

July 2008

  • Books blog
    The return of British avant garde fiction

    Are we now ready for a new generation of experimental fiction? I certainly am

March 2008

  • Books blog
    The film that thinks it's a novel

  • Books blog
    Literary sex is such a turn-off

January 2008

  • Books blog
    Opening a dream bookshop

    There's a great spot open all hours in my head, but two brave souls are currently trying to get a real one going in north London

  • A shocking novel of ideas. Must be French

    Lydie Salvayre's The Power of Flies movingly uses a condemned man as its narrator, says Lee Rourke

  • Books blog
    The beautiful melancholy of Stevie Smith

    She was renowned for her poetry, but in her novels Stevie Smith captures, with exquisite stillness and delicacy, all the pains of love

November 2007

  • Books blog
    An author of eloquent silences

  • Books blog
    The solitary voices of Fernando Pessoa

October 2007

  • Books blog
    The boring brilliance of JG Ballard

  • Books blog
    Take away the collection and rob the reader

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