Budding male writer originally cites Trainspotting, Hemingway and Bukowski as inspirations

‘You know, I just love to go to a popular cafe and sit out the front, to stare pensively into a book with big words in the titles, I love big titles. I’ll have my notepad alongside, occasionally I’ll jot something down or draw…’ 

Citizens, 

On his morning march through the bush to school, young Kolya Krastokin took to listening to his favourite podcast.

Today on his traditionally macho man podcast, they were interviewing someone who could write, and more importantly, especially considering the demographic of the listeners, they were a young man who had written a book.  

With a scruffy voice befitting his appearance, this writer proceeded to take Kolya on a journey about stunted emotions, strong liquor and hard drugs. It didn’t take long before they name dropped the holy trinity for a young man’s first introduction into male focused adult literature. 

In the process of broadening his knowledge of expletives, Kolya felt inspired that there was finally someone in the book publishing industry who appealed to him. He quickly sought about stealing their books, along with those of Walsh, Hemingway and Bukowski from the local library. 

Much to his surprise, even Sammy Du Beaver seemed to approve of his new found interest. 

‘Do promise me though, that after you’ve read them you’ll read the work by a gay British man, who taught English in Berlin during the rise of Nazism, migrated to America, converted to Hinduism and was friends with Aldous Huxley and W.H.Auden. That man could write,’ she wisely imparted to young Kolya already deeply buried into the pages of a book.