
Review by Kirstin
Brian
Herzog, Truffaut, and Brian from Kentish Town
We’re big fans of London publisher, Fitzcarraldo Editions, and their championing of innovative and enduring fiction, enfolded in elegant Yves Klein Blue covers. Brian by Jeremy Cooper is the third of his works they’ve launched into the world, and a novel of rich interiority. It chronicles several decades of the sedate life of Brian, loner, Camden Council employee, and cinephile. Carrying past trauma and a lifelong sense of being different, in Cooper’s inspired melding of bittersweet fiction and film criticism, Brian is set to find solace and belonging at the British Film Institute on London’s South Bank.