Darran Anderson has written a piece for 3:AM Magazine alongside the US release of his memoir, Inventory, on Georges Perec and his influence on Darran’s writing.

“I hadn’t realised that writers could deal with profound topics, including trauma and grief, with such a lightness of touch. Perec may be skimming stones across the surface of literature but as he does so he was sending little depth-sounding pulses down into the dark.”

Read “spoken in jest: on the lasting importance of georges perec” here.

Inventory is out now in the US from Farrar, Strauss and Giroux – grab your copy here. You can buy your copy of Inventory in the UK and Ireland here, or, better, at your local bookshop.

Find Darran on Twitter @Oniropolis.