U Want It Darker is Vogel-winning author, Murray Middleton’s, second short story collection and is a bold and darkly humorous exploration about artists struggling with their egos, facing their failures and redeeming their bad behaviour.
To be published by Pan Macmillan in August, Murray draws us deeper into the absurdities of creative life, inhabiting dingy painters’ studios, anarchic movie sets, depraved pizza restaurants and grimy comedy clubs, as he tries not to plunge into the abyss himself.
Daring, original and shot through with pathos, these stories are a gulp of fresh air from a Vogel Award-winning literary talent.