A month of literature events organised by the Durham Literature Festival are due to run from 25th September through to 24th October. You can see the full...
It's nothing to do with literature, but Seth Godin is now giving away his latest ebook, Knock Knock, for free . Seth is one of my favourite bloggers: he...
The boy Granger gets controversial with a not-quite-convinced review of the new White Stripes outing Get Behind Me Satan . My Catholic upbringing keeps making...
This evening I am mostly watching the Arena at 30 night on BBC4. Arena was an extraordinary arts documentary series. So far, it has reminded me of some...
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Sep 3, 2005 8:51 pm
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Just given an overhaul to Spike's version of the Open Directory . The OD is a huge repository of hand selected websites, each checked by real humans for...
Who is Tim Martin? What is he trying to hide? Why does he spend an entire interview with Peter Ackroyd effacing himself? "He [Ackroyd] orders a glass of wine....
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Sep 4, 2005 9:54 am
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I know everyone else must have a link to the Kayne West clip on US TV the other night. Astounding that it was edited on the delayed broadcast in the west....
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Sep 4, 2005 2:34 pm
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I'm rather startled that BBC Radio 4's programme of ideas In Our Time , hosted by gorgeous, pouting Melvyn Bragg, has become the BBC's most popular podcast !...
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Sep 4, 2005 6:54 pm
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Flaubert, Joyce and Beckett: The Stoic Comedians is underpinned by Walter J. Ong 's argument that "printing was the efficient cause of those intellectual...
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Sep 5, 2005 10:22 am
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After much delay, Re:Search finally publish their collection of J. G. Ballard interviews - originally titled, er, "J. G. Ballard: Interviews" when it was first...
Two fictions in post from Soft Skull Press of New York. Both appear in the Shortlit series. Travel in the Mouth of the Wolf by Paul Fattaruso is 'a wild and...
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Sep 7, 2005 7:28 pm
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The opening quotation of Kenner's book is by Porson and goes as follows: "Damn the nature of things!" Well, quite. I found a stack of great anecdotes about the...
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Sep 8, 2005 8:09 am
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CNN reports on a note found on HST's desk, written four days before his death and left in a sealed envelope for his wife Anita. Thompson was in pain from...
Suicide Grasshoppers Brainwashed by Parasite Worms -- Posted by Chris to splinters: books, authors, literature, travel, politics at 9/09/2005 02:36:42 PM...
Grumpy Old Bookman inspires me to register a new name for Spike: The Christian Science Monitor could not bring itself to refer to the blog which goes by the...
Recently I've been working on the website of Third Eye Books , a small publisher who recently published the novel Justin Aveneer . Justin has an interesting...
Eight moves a knight can make on suitable terrain. Quotations and off-the-cuff reactions to Viktor Shklovsky's collection of cultural journalism from the years...
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Sep 12, 2005 8:38 pm
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I've always had an irrational hatred of Garrison Keillor, but now those years of shockingly inappropriate bile have been vindicated . Still, it's heartening to...
Craig Johnson delivers the goods again with a cracking conversation with one of my all-time heroes, Mr Gonzo Art himself, Ralph Steadman . The pair of them...
I reviewed Ben Myers' excellent The Book Of Fuck a while ago, and it's about to be published in Italy under the title "Il Dio Della Scopota". Mr Myers walks it...
Ooh, shiny. Google Blogsearch launches, providing a far more powerful to search the blogosphere than the ailing Technorati. It's one of the easiest ways to...
The debate in New York city between George Galloway MP and Christopher Hitchens AA takes place this evening. You can watch it live online and on independent US...
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Sep 14, 2005 7:08 pm
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Inspired by the excellent Ballardian.com , I've given JGBallard.com a makeover - still the same set of links but a lot easier on the eye and now with...
Like a lot of other British bloggers, I got a bottle of Stormhoek wine gratis from Hugh McLeod, who was trying out an experiment in using the blogosphere to...
The fantastic UbuWeb is back! My faves include the bits by John Cage (check out the "Mushroom Haiku"), William S. Burroughs , Samuel Beckett and Brion Gysin ....
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Sep 16, 2005 10:49 am
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An excellent weblog about illustration and cartooning. Consistently great and eye-opening picks: the graphics look so fresh and accomplished. There's a lot of...
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Sep 16, 2005 12:01 pm
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Jeanette Winterson's site has been up for five years. After winning back her domain name in a history-making legal wrangle , she has built a nice little web...
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Sep 16, 2005 1:34 pm
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An unexpected surprise in the post this morning - a copy of the 200th issue of Interzone magazine , the vibrant UK sci-fi and fantasy magazine that's been...
Listening to Goldfrapp's Supernature this morning, I was struck by how similar opening track and first single Ooh La La sounds like Suicide. Suicide being...
Being Charlie Kaufman has just uploaded an MP3 of his sound play "Hope Leaves the Theater". Part of a project called "Theater of the New Ear", the play...
