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Steve Toltz on writing fear, Here Goes Nothing, and nailing why we do what we do
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Steve Toltz is the author of A Fraction of the Whole, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Guardian First Book Award and Quicksand, which won the Russell Prize for Humour. Booklist called A Fraction of the Whole ‘a deliriously philosophical novel . . . with uproarious ruminations on freedom, the soul, love, death, and the meaning of life" and in a way that applies to Steve's work as a whole and his new book, Here Goes Nothing.
The Irish Times described Here Goes Nothing as, ‘a smart social commentary on our fossil fuel-guzzling, warmongering, information-obsessed, pandemic-riddled world’ and as The Scotsman said, he writes with ‘remorseless, brilliantly withering contempt’, though this sits alongside a story and characters that are both affecting and strangely moving.
Steve’s also worked as screenwriter on shows like No Activity and Guilty Party.
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