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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...
Ismo Santala
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Dec 1, 2005 9:19 am
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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,...
I'm currently reading Bruno Dagens' Angkor: Heart Of An Asian Empire , which is part of Thames and Hudson's New Horizons series. They are small glossy...
BoingBoing points to one of my photos on my newly launched photoblog Photohappy : Boing Boing: Restaurant in Xi'an, China sells food that does not appeal to me...
The Times has a big article about the direct impact a book's cover has on its sales - no surprise there, except the report also reckons that a book has 1.5...
Just for a bit of Christmas cheer, I thought I'd post my review of this truly brilliant book about the Khmer Rouge and the 1970s genocide in Cambodia. Nic...
The coverage of the tsunami's one year anniversary leaves a lot to be desired. I only have access to BBC World and their tsunami reporting is pitiful even by...
Fuck that went by fast. I need to get out of Finland. Out of the whole Nordic region, in fact. The early darkness! The darkness that numbs the mind! Dabbling...
Ismo Santala
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Dec 29, 2005 5:20 pm
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As Ben , Steve and Ismo have all given their round up of what they most enjoyed this year, I'll do likewise. I've been pretty crap at keeping my list of books...
Ismo and I have been talking about writing. I said to him that I think the tone of writing is as important as its content. The idea of a lightness of touch...
This is the 2000th post on the Splinters blog. Time for an orgy of self-congratulation. The first post was on September 9th 2000 , six years - six years! -...
This is the 2000th post on the Splinters blog. Time for an orgy of self-congratulation. The first post was on September 9th 2000 , six years - six years! -...
Bangkok-based author Christopher G. Moore, who I interviewed a few months ago , has been writing a great author blog on his website for the last few months....
If you're rich and smart, you will buy a lithograph by Alasdair Gray . And in ten years' time, you will call my agent and set up a pub meet. I will buy you a...
Ismo Santala
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Jan 16, 2006 8:38 pm
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Metafilter notes Henry Rollins has now got a blog , which makes up in prose what it lacks in layout or functionality. (No RSS feed, for god's sake). The MeFi...
Back in November 2004, Spike published an excerpt of Bertie Marshall's punk memoir Berlin, Bromley . Chronicling his time as a teenager amongst the Bromley...
The PostSecret project has lost none of its lustre for me in the several months I've been reading the weekly posts of new secrets on their website. (I first...
A collection of photos of newspaper headlines , as plastered on the side of kiosks selling the Evening Standard. Another clever use of Flickr. There's...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An unexpected endorsement from al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has resulted in a huge jump in sales for a book by a critic of U.S....
From an interview with Simon Reynolds about his book Rip It Up And Start Again: Post Punk 1978 - 1984 : "That "change the world" idea survives in pockets, and...
