Welcome
We’ve launched a manifesto. You can’t have a movement without one these days.
Jackdaw Fool is a novel for our time. A loosely structured homage to cult fiction, from Amis’s money to Nabokov’s Lolita, the book follows the misadventures of a television critic named Iago Coakes, a flatulent ane’ crazed gluttonous man child, as he reinvents literary theory, pillages womankind, defiles the international space station and rampages across the continental United States, holding a mirror up to an increasingly un-sane society.
Read the manifesto…
Or read chapter one…
Welcome dearest
Jackdaw Fool, the critically acclaimed work in progress from writer Pierre Rufus, has received another glowing preview in the popular press.
‘A schizophrenic novel with a breakneck pace, Jackdaw Fool lampoons every facet of modernity; from academia to mass media, consumerism, literature, celebrity and of course, itself. Rufus looses a streaming gusher of disrespect on the cult novel, breaking every convention up to and including narrative consistency, character development, readability and unconventionality itself. The book is monstrously self indulgent, like a perfumed Pharaoh force feeding his banana paste poop to lolicon cosplay school kids. It’s a ferocious hyperbolic canker unreservedly scatter shot in all directions, a wild automatic pistol in the hands of an epileptic postal worker. Forget stars, in fact, forget planets, I rate this book in moons, twin moons circling a festering sphinteroid, from which a great space log is squeezed, thick and soft and ropey, from here to eternity. Fail.’
Tim’s Literary Supplement
Jackdaw Fool, an Introduction
Jackdaw Fool, is the stunning new novel from award winning* writer Pierre Rufus, author of The Plain Girls Guide to Chocolate, and Plonker, An Autobiography.
The novel – which has been likened to the finest works of Bellow, Hemingway, and Ford** – tells the story of hapless everyman, Iago Coakes, a writer and television critic, and his struggles with encroaching middle age, a broken marriage, a precocious daughter, and an all consuming secret.
In an heroic twist, Rufus has agreed to write his latest blog novel internet blook right here on Jackdaw Fool.com. For the first time, you the audience are privileged to watch a great American novel take shape. Nine earth shaking chapters have already been torn screaming from Pierre’s creative womb. So don’t miss the third half of this unmissable missal, already a safe bet for the Cadbury’s Orange Michelin Man British Nuclear Fuels Booker Prize. Just ask my wife, I’ve bet her!
Take this opportunity, join the adventure.
Wing Commander Chemmy Dewhirst
Jackdaw Media Chair of Humanities,
Our Lady of Perpetual Pro-life University
* Hyde Park Novelty Walk, Bronze Medal 1988
** In this paragraph
A message from the senior editor of Jackdaw Media Online.
Many thanks for checking back again, we’re making progress as I’m sure you can see. Pierre is working feverishly hard on this one, he seems desperate to get it done in record time. Indeed, having provisionally completed Chapter One, he is crashing ahead through the literary undergrowth in search of further inspiration for his darling Iago Coakes, who I’m sure I went to Eton with. Still, there’s more to come, please let us know what you think; if it’s good we’ll give him chocolate!
Senior Editor,
Stiff Bullwinkle
A message from the managing director of Jackdaw Media Group.
We here at the good ship Jackdaw are proud to announce the addition to our team, of acclaimed novelist Pierre Rufus.
Pierre is a widely published author of no little repute, and has agreed for a significant fee to develop his latest novel right here on Jackdaw.
Needless to say this is a pant wettingly joyous occasion for the magazine, and the chance to see a world renowned member of the academy add to the oeuvre of western literature, right here, in real time. We look forward to hearing your feedback, and we are sure you will enjoy enjoy this new chapter in the life of Jackdaw Fool.
Check back soon for the first instalment.
Managing Director,
Henry McSputherboon Chamberton
A message from Pierre Rufus..
Hello, how are you? Me I’m good. Really happy to be here. Its a real pleasure to join the team, they are treating me very well. It gets cold at night but they’ve said they’ll get a welding torch any day now.
Anyway I’m very excited about this opportunity. In the coming months I will be writing and editing as I normally would my newest novel, provisionally entitled The Coming Night. I hope this project won’t take too long, and that I’ll be able to get back to my normal life soon.
All the best,
P. Rufus
PS: Contrary to reports in the press, I am well and in good health. I am here voluntarily. Here is a recent photo of me.
PPS: Sally, don’t worry about the finger, I can still type. Give it a decent burial, and kiss the children for me won’t you. All my love.
