Ian Martin

Feb 12, 2024 | the-fence.com | Harvey James |Fiona Mozley |Ed Cumming |Ian Martin

Living on the edge of glory. No one suspected anything malicious in the red spray paint outside our house. Not the first time it showed up, at least. The house was a Spanish-style villa on a residential street in West Hollywood and was split into two flats sharing a porch. My modelling agency’s section housed four to six male models, with two bunkbeds in one room and two single beds in another. I was used to slumming it with a strange set, but this group was particularly batty.

Feb 8, 2024 | the-fence.com | Fiona Mozley |Ed Cumming |Ian Martin |Rosie Hewitson

Speaking to the dead. It was 8pm in New York, October 30, 2022, although I was not there, not phy­sically anyway. In the UK and Ireland, it was midnight – already Halloween. My partner was in bed, though not asleep. We’d had a gentle dispute over the evening’s activities, she being adamant the dead were not to be messed with. I was in the sitting room of our Edinburgh tenement flat, door shut, hunched over my computer, waiting for the Zoom call to begin.

Feb 7, 2024 | the-fence.com | Harvey James |Fiona Mozley |Ed Cumming |Ian Martin

What defines the amorphous idea of ‘coolness’ in each age of life? If you are cool too early in life, can you recapture that golden era? What is the optimum age to be considered the apex of cool? We reveal all this and more. There are only a few avenues to newborn coolness and they are of course largely dependent on your birth parents. Are they cool people themselves? Judge this based on whether or not they announced your entrance into the world with a gender reveal stunt.

Jul 24, 2023 | the-fence.com | Harvey James |Fiona Mozley |Ed Cumming |Ian Martin

Finally got that first book published? Our anonymous insider tells you what happens next. it will feel realThe day your first book comes out will be the best day of your life. You’ll do an interview for BBC Shropshire, appear on a podcast hosted by a couple of SOAS DPhils, someone with a Substack you once read will review your book for the Swindon Advertiser. You’ll go to your book launch, where everyone you’ve ever met will be in one room, and you’ll feel like a rock star.