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'..leaping into the unknown by reading some classic British literature: RL Stevenson’s The Beach at Falesa. ' Bloody hell you mean your willing to take a...
Steve - if one wants to read a great novella then one cannot go wrong with Conrad's Heart Of Darkness, may be the best example in the language. If you want...
Actually, I've read Heart of Fishshops. Darkness....
Steve Mitchelmore
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Jul 1, 2005 11:40 am
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Great review in The Scotsman of Sixteen Acres: The Rebuilding Of The World Trade Centre Site by Philip Nobel. It's also been published under the slightly more...
Distraught that I missed their first UK gig in 15 cocking years, I've been contenting myself with listening to the Psychedelic Furs back catalogue recently and...
Today is Franz Kafka's 122nd birthday. I'm already practising my Father Dougal smile in preparation for the publication of the translation of the first volume...
steve
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Jul 3, 2005 8:34 pm
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Weekly satirical email newsletter The Friday Thing has moved into the world of book publishing with the launch of The Friday Project . Given the success of The...
Great piece in MobyLives from author Dan Bloom about selling his own book in Taiwan by the simple method of standing in a nightmarket shouting, "Buy my book!"....
Great collection of articles on cut-up writing from Burroughs, Kerouac et al, plus online tools for some word experimenting yourself. More on cut-up writing:...
Bookish Not (yet) on Spike's "recommended" list, I found this weblog through the "referrers" column at the bottom of the page. Short, delightful entries. Ms....
Ismo
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Jul 5, 2005 6:59 pm
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... <<Great collection of articles on cut-up writing from Burroughs, Kerouac et al, plus online tools for some word experimenting yourself. More on cut-up...
Been glued to the television and the Web for the last five hours trying to figure out what's going on in London. Anxiously emailing friends trying to get...
Dave Lull just told me about William Gibson's Confessions Of A Cut And Paste Artist in Wired magazine. There's also Spike's own interview with William Gibson...
H2G2's erudite and amusing guide to the joys of British invective. "A stronger British term for testicles, which rhymes with 'frollocks', is probably worth a...
In 1973, actor Anthony Hopkins agreed to appear in The Girl From Petrovka, based on a novel by George Feifer. Unable to find a copy of the book anywhere in...
In Beckett Remembering / Remembering Beckett , out to coincide with what would have been his 100th birthday, the author "reveals for the first time many of his...
steve
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Jul 9, 2005 9:39 pm
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We've already heard about London hotels ripping off those trapped by Thursday's attacks, now The Australian ) reports that "thousands of retail investors...
steve
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Jul 10, 2005 5:22 pm
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An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it. Nothing is durable but what is caught up in rhythms. The sight of movement gives...
Ismo
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Jul 10, 2005 10:24 pm
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I couldn't get on with the few stories I read, but AL Kennedy's journalism is unputdownable . Here she writes about marching on the G8 summit at Gleneagles in...
steve
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Jul 10, 2005 10:24 pm
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Ricky Gervais meditates on cracking jokes about Steven Hawking in a recent Observer interview, and in doing so, casually resurrects the phrase "fisting Norman...
I just rehacked Spike's home page to showcase basically everything on the site - every interview, every review, every feature, everything. Plus summaries of...
The Sharpe Side reads a story buried on page 27 of the Sunday Times. I searched BBC News for the same story. Here it is , posted on the 4th of July. The US...
steve
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Jul 11, 2005 6:03 pm
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I should never do a Spike Update last thing at night. There were some busted links etc on the front page when I posted earlier about new articles on Spike,...
The region free DVD adaptation of J.G. Ballard's The Atrocity Exhibition is due for release in September 2005. Directed by Jonathan Weiss back in 2001, the DVD...
Scrutinising Spike's stat logs, my elderly review of Julian Dibbell's book My Tiny Life has been getting a lot of visits recently. I'm still not sure why, but...
This is another book I'd like to get hold of: JD Lasica's Darknet: Hollywood's War Against The Digital Generation . This explores another area of the Net that...
Lengthy interview with Vietnamese novelist Duong Thu Huong in the IHT, pointing out Vietnam's continued repression of its people which seems to be conveniently...
I just found a new Aussie search engine called Fact Bites that is a real help for tracking down info on authors. Instead of a list of random links, FactBites...
"Literary Review, now in its 26th year, has a reputation for intelligent, witty and thoughtful reviews of books ranging from fiction to history, and poetry to...
