Aaron, Moses
Aaron, Ron
Adesida, Dotun
Al-Assady, Abdul-Settar
Banerjee, Arunabh
Baraka, Ahmed
Beal, Mark
Binx, Eugene
Bisht, Pushkar
Brown, Dr. Glen
Buck, Gail
Chambers, Eric
Chambers, Lesley
Chappel, T. A.
Chi, Anson
Coakley, Mark
Coelho, Paulo
Culling, Peter
Diwivedi, Tripuresh Dhar
Dufort, Mike
Ebony, Ojo Iredia
Falit, Joseph E.
Fawcett, Shaun
Fitzgerald-Clarke, Michael
Fleming, Suzanne
Fries, Todd
Gheorghiu, Cristache
GOrDon, Gregory
Huchu, Tendai
Izuogu, Victor
Jacobsen, Heidi
King, Nigel
Kumar, G. Ram
Lake, Gina
LaRocca, Kay
Lay, Vicheka
Litt, Dr. Jerome Z.
Majumdar, Pritis Chandra
McCulloch, Iain
Merrow, Liz
Miller, Harley
Maffey, Laura
Maffey, Riccardo
Milazzo, Ronald
Minya, Dzimba
Nath, Bhasurananda
Neo
Nirmala
O'Brien, Benjamin
Okonkwo, Ikechukwu
Patterson, R.J.
Purcar, Gabriela
Ridner, Melanie
Rinaldi, Jacquie
Roberts, Ella
Rutz, Gary
Sharp, Ian
Sooriyarachchi, Janaki
Spudich, Giulietta
Ştef, Dorin
Stull, Blaire
Taylor, Roy
Thomas, Dennis
Thompson, Tantse
Turley, Keith
Vine-Knight, Leo
Watson, Rob
Wear, Milt
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Eugene Binx was born on the 11 th of October 1949, on the South West side of England; one of three countries that are situated on a small island 26 miles off the coast of Europe. As a young child he studied classical music.
In the early swinging sixties his prayers for a new life were answered when his parents re-located the family to the City of Oxford. There in his early teenage years he delivered morning newspapers to many of the grand universities. During those many solitary hours spent walking through those sleeping grounds of great knowledge and culture, awoke a desire in Eugene to understand all and stay on at school to study English Literature.
In his late teenage years he struggled desperately to find a direction in which to travel. Chance took him into the Oxford Theatre, where he quickly mastered the art of all things back stage. He was invited to the West End Theatres to work as a stage electrician. Once settled in London he was drawn into working at many of the theatres and also early fringe productions, all in a technical capacity. This lead him onto and into the live music business as a young man now to where again his involvement was always technical.
The years flew by and following a decade of exile in Cambridge Shire disguised as a drunken hotel manager, he returned to London at the end of the last millennium. Here he met chance again and was able to combine his love, knowledge and technical understanding of theatre, music and alcohol to make an unsuccessful entertainment venue, even more unsuccessful.
Now living in Hertford Shire England and again in exile disguised as an ordinary member of the public, Eugene Binx having been relieved of all financial responsibility by bankruptcy court has learned all about time. Hes time to fly off to far away lands for a penny and time to strum a Chinese guitar he bought on eBay and even time to write novels and of course to drink.
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When Norman Smith left his hometown, Birmingham, to become his Uncle Ernest and Auntie Katies lodger, in Londons East End, he found the relocation in no way diminshed his woman-magnet ability.
If anything his magnetic fields ratchet up a notch, giving him a supercharged shot in the arm; and in other parts of his male anatomy. Women wanted a piece of Norman, and they wanted it now. And were talking older, married, women at that.
At the tender age of nineteen, and just thirty-six hours after he unpacked his bags in his new digs, Norman was helping Aunt Kates best friend, Nancy Trollope, to seriously rearrange her bed linen. People didnt say no to Nancy; and Norman wasnt about to tip the balance of power. Nancy didnt ask; she demanded and Norman was more than happy to oblige.
Norman was rewarded for his efforts. Nancy had connections and she liked helping her friends. Norman bags a doormans job at the Two Buttocks, a East End comedy venue. A rollercoaster chain of events sees him leapfrog from one position to another. He becames the compere, a comedian, and then finally he's the manager and running the show.
Norman set his sights on the stage and gets his first real break when he does an emergency fill in for the regular stand-up comedian. The crowds love him and pretty soon he's racing along the success highway. He meets Betsy, another comedian, and they decide to test their homemaking skills and move in together. To everyones surprise, including their own, they make a reasonable fist of it, and alls good.
Zen and the Art of Stand Up Comedy, is a crazy mix of unexpected events and people being in the right place at the right time. A tale of unlikely connections, its crowed with complementary, and not so complementary, characters who will make you laugh (or maybe even cry) in between shaking your head in bewilderment.
Its a good yarn, sprinkled with names like Harry Shagman, Mickey Finn, Bungalow Bill, and of course the loveable Zen Warwickshire is the man at the centre of it all. Surrounded by Betsy, Sheila and a couple of rare gems, who each add their unique brand of wisdom, to help turn the novel into an amusing smorgasbord of human reactions. An interesting life pastiche.
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