The Bangkok Post runs another classic on its front page today: "A number of mobile phones and SIM cards were seized during a surprise search at Bang Kwang...
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An article from Capitol Hill Blue describes how Bush is losing it under pressure - there are fears that the President's mental health is detoriating, that's...
Seen on Craigslist jobs: Institute For Unpopular Culture Intern . Steve, are you setting up an office? More on jobs in the Arts: Spike | Google | Amazon UK |...
Priceless reader reviews from Amazon, gathered together on one blog . More on stupid readers: Spike | Google | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Wikipedia | Open...
Newsday : "PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Badr Zaman Badr and his brother Abdurrahim Muslim Dost relish writing a good joke that jabs a corrupt politician or distills...
Sort of. Three new articles added to Spike - Ian Hocking's review of Marina Lewycka's A Short History Of Tractors in Ukrainian , Ben's review of Half Man Half...
Great AFP article about Laxman Rao , the 51 year old Indian author who has written 18 novels and had innumerable writeups in the press over the last 30 years...
Interesting interview with Japanese horror novelist Koji Suzuki in The Daily Yomiuri . I didn't realise The Ring had been so successful as to be translated...
Technorati led me to a fine post on Infinite Thought about Michel Houellebecq, from which I will only quote this laugh out loud moment: One of the best lines...
is just one of the titles by which you are allowed to formally refer to North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il. Harper's [via Reddit ] has the full, mind bending...
[Non PC game playing types, skip this post.] A word of warning for anyone thinking about buying the newly released Civilization IV , the greatest strategy game...
Spike contributor Ian Hocking has produced a podcast of his critically acclaimed science fiction debut novel Deja Vu. Ian's been experimenting with the form...
Des Moines Register has an interesting article about what books convicts are reading in the Anamosa State Penitentiary in Iowa. Steve Hebron, treatment...
Been a little under the weather lately, but that doesn't seem to stop me from hawking my wares some more. My blog has been up for a week now, and here's some...
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Sam and Jim go to Hollywood is the only screenwriting podcast I listen to on a regular basis. You can really tell that Sam Ernst and Jim Dunn have known each...
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Zembla : "Painter and printmaker Alan Turnbull presents an online exhibit of etchings inspired by Nabokov's work. " Gallery 1: Fairy tales Gallery 2: Shadow...
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Professor Thomas Laqueur has produced a new book, Solitary Sex: A Cultural History Of Masturbation , which provides a history of onanism and attitudes towards...
Now that the list of blog contributors on the top of the page links directly to ismosantala.com , I can plug my screenwriting blog for one final time. Recent...
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Al Jazeera staff journalists have a new blog - Don't Bomb Us . Via Lenin - the last bastion of truth online. More on Al Jazeera: Spike | Google | Amazon UK |...
Coveted behind-the-scenes material: overheard chit-chat around the virtual Spike offices. The deal is that Chris utters a simple sentence, and then I'm obliged...
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A grisly but fascinating - and well written - article from The Recorder, the Harvard Law School newspaper. Dan Alban investigates the real life examples of...
The Scotsman interview Irvine Welsh on his return to Edinburgh to promote the One City book - there's a lot more info over on IrvineWelsh.com. Natch. More on...
Chilling AP article about Messages To The World: The Statements of Osama Bin Laden by Duke University professor Bruce Lawrence. Lawrence has assembled a...
We haven't quite managed to get Salford's finest and Scotland's latest literary talent in the same room yet, but we've got two new reviews - one from Ben of...
Apparently George Orwell's original preface to Animal Farm was censored - you can read the preface here, along with a useful introduction to it by Robert...
10 years on from the original production, the stage version of Trainspotting is set to steam through the UK again next year. Harry Gibson wrote and directed...
New Spike reviewer Nick Mitchell, fresh from his piece on Suhayl Saadi's Psychoraag , comes up with a good take on the new Boards Of Canada album The Campfire...
New review on Spike: The Underdog: How I Survived The World's Most Outlandish Competitions: Joshua Davis "...one of those hard-to-classify mixes of travelogue,...
