Perry Bible Fellowship The quality level of Nicholas Gurewitch's cartooning is amazing. You could start out with Reset , Freaking Vortex or Bacon Egg , but...
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Two intriguing books in the post for me this week. Edges: O Israel O Palestine , by Leora Skolkin-Smith . It's a novel set in the Israel of the early '60s and...
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Aug 3, 2005 11:46 am
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In The Bug , author Ellen Ullman "gives the reader a glimpse into the lives of software professionals". Gosh. How exciting. Apparently, the novel "is a...
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Aug 6, 2005 7:20 pm
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Not sure what on earth this is about, but here's an entertaining Quicktime preview of what seems to be an entertaining movie called The Guatemalan Handshake ....
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Aug 7, 2005 8:52 pm
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"The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline, but rather the gradual lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity."...
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Aug 8, 2005 12:22 pm
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We live our lives creating connections between sensations, memories, ideas and fantasies. Each of us is a beehive of bodily activity. Still, we mustn't forget...
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Aug 9, 2005 1:04 pm
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From Ruminator magazine editor Susannah McNeely: "We've begun posting the new issue of Ruminator and will continue putting the rest of it online in weekly...
Back in England for a week now, slowly dying of alcohol poisoning from the social booze overload - I seem to have forgotten how to drink. Currently staying...
Ballardian.com , a great new J.G. Ballard related site has come online recently - great design. Encourages me to get my finger out and redesign jgballard.com ....
Happy birthday to comics artist Eddie Campbell ! Best known as the illustrator of Alan Moore’s From Hell, Campbell’s greatest solo work can be found in the...
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Aug 10, 2005 5:59 pm
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Lars Iyer of Spurious has posted a series of remarkable meditations on a couple of recent novels by one of Britain's best and most neglected novelists. I was...
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Aug 13, 2005 8:49 pm
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Two things not to be missed. Ready Steady Book has emerged, chyrsalis-like with a superb new look. (You can also read a mercifully-short review of mine ; if it...
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Aug 14, 2005 10:03 am
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It's not particularly new, but I've just finished reading Brick Testament , a lavishly produced photobook that recreates Bible stories entirely in Lego. My...
James Meek, author of A People's Act of Love , a novel much-fêted by his journalist friends and colleagues, says "it still surprises me how much imagination...
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Aug 14, 2005 11:22 am
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I make a brief appearance in the Escape section of today's Observer newspaper, extolling the joys of long term travel. It's a pretty accurate 2 paragraph...
Giornale Nuovo Great entries on visual art and illustration (most have strong literary or textual components). Little-known works by the masters and masterful...
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Aug 16, 2005 9:53 am
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My first foray back into fiction for a while, Magrs novel is like Morrissey meets Rosemary's Baby. Violent deaths, gay sex, psychotic children - what's not to...
Just saw this in the logs of what people are buying from Amazon through Spike: The Bomb: A Life . "Before the Bomb, there were simply 'bombs', lower case. But...
From OOM Gallery: "This September marks the 20th anniversary of the Handsworth Riots of 1985. A chilling series of events that scarred a community and the rest...
Accompanying my return to Britain was Nick Danziger's book about his travels through some of the most impoverished areas of the United Kingdom. This is about...
First it was Bible stories told entirely in Lego , now it's modern art recreated using the Danish wonder brick. The Guardian yesterday carried an article about...
Aaron Kelly, author of the recent full-length critical study of Irvine Welsh , sent me a note recently about the spurious supposed connection between Mr Welsh...
This is not to be missed for New York residents in need of some Scottish common sense: on Sept 14th, a debate between George Galloway and Christopher Hitchens...
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Aug 19, 2005 7:59 pm
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I moaned in my previous post that I couldn't find any closeup photos of the Little Artists' recreations of modern art masterpieces in Lego. Liverpool Museum's...
From The Times ' piece on the new Michel Houellebecq novel Island : Detractors cannot fathom the success of a racist, sexist writer who hates modern life,...
With the news of the death of Dr Robert Moog, it's interesting how appropriate the inventors of instruments are. Moog invented his synthesiser, Leon Theremin...
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Aug 22, 2005 9:15 pm
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In the first tentative steps of making Spike:The Book happen, I've been investigating various Print On Demand companies over the last few months. At the moment...
In the article "Robert Bresson: An Introduction" ( filmography ; overview ), Kent Jones writes: "The precise coordination of every element of filmmaking --...
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Aug 24, 2005 3:19 pm
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Ellis Sharp reviews what cannot be found in Michael Buerk's autobiography The Road Taken . (For readers outside the UK, Buerk is the BBC journalist who brought...
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Before seeing Bresson's 1962 film, my idea of Jeanne would have fit in a woodcut: a visionary girl on a battlefield, shouting this and that about God and the...
