Literary Consequences

... which is not what happens when, come the morning after, you read something written in the throes of the night before. Rather, it's an storytelling experiment by Hamish Hamilton, which has just added a chapted by a fifth author: Steven Heighton, one of my favourite novelists. The Guardian are up to something similar. So far, Ali Smith is the crossover voice between the two, so maybe a Vargas Llosa meta-consequences will ensue, with characters from Hamish Hamilton turning up in the Guardian's 52...