Laurence Scott is an award-winning author of two books, The Four-Dimensional Human and Picnic Comma Lightning. Over the last ten years his essays and criticism have appeared in The New Yorker, Financial Times, New York Times, Guardian, Boston Globe, New Statesman, and the London Review of Books, among many others. He writes a regular column on digital life for WIRED magazine, and is a presenter on BBC Radio 3’s Arts and Ideas programme, Free Thinking. Laurence received a doctorate in Comparative Literature from King’s College London. He teaches writing and literature at New York University in London and on the University of North Carolina’s Honors Programme. He lives in London.

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Murder on the Dancefloor – The Guardian

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