Mark Scrivener Literary freelance

IT IS 9.45 ON A BRISK APRIL morning at the flat overlooking Clapham Common and Mark has been at work for the best part of an hour. His flatmates — a trainee solicitor, an advertising executive and the research assistant to a Tory MP — are long gone and, favouring comfort over monasticism, Mark has relocated himself to the front room. Here, surrounded by last night’s takeaway away containers and their congealing residues, es, a Fender bass guitar and some rugby kit hung up to dry over the fireplace, he is busy texting an ally on the Times Literary Supplement. “How abt I do new Deborah Levy?” Mark proposes. There is a brief delay, during which Mark browses the books section of the previous week’s Private Eye. “Sorry, already fixed,”…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, August - September 2023

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