Guess What Singer Nick Cave Used To Write His Latest Novel?

Leander Kahney ()

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Singer Nick Cave has a new novel out: The Death of Bunny Munro, a light, cheery, life-affirming tale of the last days of a the eponymous traveling salesman. Just kidding — it’s dark. It’s also available as an audio book and an iPhone application.

But the best part is, guess what he used to write the first chapter?

Yeah, an iPhone! No shit, Cave wrote the first chapter on an iPhone, according to his publishing company.

The chapter is nine pages long. At the publishing industry standard of 250 words a page, that’s 2,250 words painfully tapped out with his index fingers! Let’s hope the book isn’t full of the iPhone’s notorious word substitutions.

Cave will be appearing on September 14th at Barnes and Noble Union Square in New York.

The Death of Bunny Munro application.

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Leander Kahney

is the editor and publisher of Cult of Mac, and author of three books about technology culture: Inside Steve’s Brain, the New York Times bestseller about Steve Jobs; Cult of Mac; and Cult of iPod. Leander has written for Wired, MacWeek, Scientific American, and The Guardian in London. Follow Leander on Twitter @lkahney and Facebook.

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  • http://www.enhanced-editions.com peter collingridge

    Hi – I’m co founder of Enhanced Editions, the company that made the iPhone App for Nick Cave’s Bunny Munro.

    There’s loads more about the app (including a demo video) over at our site:
    http://enhanced-editions.com/

    There will be a free version available as soon as Apple has approved it!

  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/mockduck/ Myfanwy Nixon

    Well, “half” of the first chapter, to be fair. I was at his reading/in conversation at the South Bank last night and he said he simply tried it out for a bit to see if it was possible.

  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/mockduck/ Myfanwy Nixon

    Also, though, funny you should mention the word subs. I did note one instance of ‘wretch’ where I assume Cave meant ‘retch’, and it was fairly early on, too.