Titlebook: Re-reading B. S. Johnson; Philip Tew (Professor of English and fellow of the Book 2007 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publish

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: Hypertext, Linearity and the Act of Readingbecome known, featured twenty-seven individually bound and paginated chapters collected in a box, with only the first and last chapters identified as such; the intervening sections could thus be rearranged by the reader and read in any order they chose. Such formal experimentation was not unique—as

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‘From Embryo to Embryan’: ,—A Problematic Birth?wn at all) as B. S. Johnson’s last work, yet was intended as the first volume of a projected trilogy, which remained tantalisingly incomplete. The basis of the core material is itself fairly straightforward: events, both actual and imaginary in the lives of Johnson’s own parents in the years and mon

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‘The Mind Has Fuses’: Detonating B. S. Johnsonin . (‘Then they had moved’: 5). Johnson is recalling his friend Tony Tillinghast, encountering the feeling of his loss, the sudden irruption of memories of his early death, triggered during a journey to Nottingham to report on a football match. ‘I fail to remember, the mind has fuses’, he writes, i

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In the Net: B. S. Johnson, the Biography and ,nts a combination of different kinds of information conveyed in different ways in its different sections. The first section consists of critical readings of all the novels, employing fairly traditional kinds of analysis and concentrating on plot summaries. Where the analysis goes beyond this modest

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Institutional Negotiations: B. S. Johnson and the BBC (1959-73)or his writing. During the 1950s and 60s it was a hugely influential cultural institution, maintaining its radio monopoly throughout, though it was forced to restructure its radio provision in 1967 (adding Radio 1 once the popular offshore pirate stations had been forced to close by Government legis

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B. S. Johnson’s , and the Consequences of Londonnstruction that would be both celebrated in newly reformulated locations like the South Bank, and rued with the rise of buildings fuelled by an unholy alliance between greedy property speculators and town planners desperate for a quick fix traffic or housing solution. Yet this combination of the Bli