29
Jul
Buy the ticket, take the ride
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Ben Trovato
Dear SANParks,
I hear you are looking for people to help you kill some animals. Well, look no further. I am your man. This filthy pandemic, and our government's unhinged response to it, has made me...
21
Mar
Read it and weep (with laughter)
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Right. Since we are all essentially trapped in our homes, we're going to need to find things to laugh about if we aren't going to turn on each other like rats in a cage. Making fun of each other's sho...
15
Jan
Pulp non-fiction – A murder story
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In the perilous world of publishing, there is something called 'sales or return'. It works like this. Bookshops will order so many copies of a new title. If those get sold, they might order more.
U...
20
Nov
Buy buy baby
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Hark, the Christmas tills do ring. The season of giving, taking, looting, stabbing and shooting is almost upon us. The Little Drummer Boy has already driven me from at least two malls.
All you can ...
06
Nov
Get your Durban Poison here!
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I promised that my new book would be available on my website and, lo, it has come to pass. Praise be.
I'm happy to devalue your copy by scribbling something in it. If you want it inscribed to someo...
03
Nov
Boks, beer and a brand new book
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Right. It's the day after the big win and I know how you are feeling. But you're in luck. I happen to have the perfect cure for a crushing hangover. It's my new book, Durban Poison, and it will help t...
13
Mar
The Ben Trovato Files
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Who among us doesn't remember satirist Ben Trovato's outrageously subversive trilogy of letters to and replies from the rich, famous and downright dangerous? Well, the madness continues as the letters...
01
Aug
Mother of all reviews
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Incognito: A Breathless Read for All the Right Reasons
Writing vigorous material is not easy. And documenting a life from within a first person perspective can be a pit of snakes: what y...
25
Jul
Lotto for the literate
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A lot of people are asking me how they can get hold of my latest book without actually paying money for it. That’s just how they roll.
One of the ways is to enter a competition being run by the publi...
03
Jul
An open letter to Kendall Jones – femme fatale of the African jungle
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Dear Kendall,
May I call you Kendall? Ms Jones sounds so formal. Besides, I feel like I know you. Yes, I do mean ‘know’ in the biblical sense. You look eerily similar to a dozen or so women I’ve slep...
03
Jul
Peer review pressure is mounting
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My books have garnered around forty or fifty reviews.
I have been called everything from "the Che Guevara of literary commentary" to "the literary equivalent of the Unabomber". I have been described ...
12
Jun
Shoot me now
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If you’re going to expose yourself, there’s no better place to do it than in the Namib Desert.
“Come up,” said my daughter, Liberty. “We’ll shoot you.” A lot of fathers live in fear of hearing those ...