William MacDougall on homelessness
Detail of Plastic Bottles, 2007 by Chris Jordan.
William MacDougall is a thirtysomething working-class Glaswegian who has lived and worked in Berlin since 2001. His writing has appeared in Counterpunch, Media Lens, Outlook India, and Z magazine. To the best of his knowledge he has been the recipient of no significant awards, grants or scholarships – literary or otherwise. He currently lives in Tiergarten.
March 11th, 2010 at 10:11 am
This is a good story, but just one little criticism: what drew the author to Berlin if not cheap rents and time to write ? Isn’t he doing exactly the same as the urban penners he so derides? My guess is, he’s an English teacher, who writes articles on the side and, no doubt, has a novel on the way. People in glass houses and all that. Still an excellent bit of observation- very accurate and nicely written. Well done.