An engaging

The prose factory would be a worthy contender

for DJ Taylor’s auTobiography. for Three
decades, he has lived not so much by the pen as
with it, manufacturing fiction, stories,
biographies, reviews, criticism and journalism of
impressive diversity. He is to high-browish
literature what James Patterson is to popular
forms, only Taylor Doesn’T neeD a hosT of
collaborators –or a university stipend-to fund
his freelance endeavours.