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...
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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...
Great piece from Mike at Visible Monsters which reckons that Ang Lee's gay cowboy flick is actually an arthouse lycanthrope movie. It's deadpan tongue-in-cheek...
Brendan Wolfe wrote about his time in South Korea for Spike a while ago. (I've up and moved his article to my dedicated travel site travelhappy now). As well...
Scott Pack, Head Buyer at Waterstone's and therefore the man that gets to decide which titles appear on the bookseller's shelves, appears to be keeping up with...
Wired has a good piece on Paul Pope's Batman: Year 100 , which re-imagines the Dark Knight in the year 2039. It sounds like another heavyweight stab at...
Independent UK publisher Serpent's Tail are moving into erotica as one of the ways to finance their publication of experimental fiction [found via The Cusp Of...
Just arrived in the post this morning - 21st century spy thriller The Devil's Halo by Chris Fox . Chris and I had a brief chat by email where he passed on some...
It's not often I read an entire novel in one sitting, but I did with Tom McCarthy's Remainder . Whether that's a testament to the gravity of my insomnia last...
It's not often I read an entire novel in one sitting, but I did with Tom McCarthy's Remainder . Whether that's a testament to the gravity of my insomnia last...
If you've missed us over the last week, rest assured we're now back. Technical difficulties and all that stuff. Anyway, this blog is now back on. Until the...
I wrote before about Scott Pack, the Head Buyer at Waterstone's, keeping an eye on British litblogs . Well, Scott agreed to answer some questions for me that I...
The Guardian has a go at self-publishing and runs a book through Lulu.com and PABD.net (Publish And Be Damned). End result? Lulu is more responsive but harder...
Amusing piece by Tim Parks in The Guardian about the trouble with your wife and children reading the novels you wrote . It was of this book that some reviewer...
Suhayl Saadi: Literary Censorship In The UK "...There has been virtually no mainstream print or physical coverage or exposure of any of my work in England, the...
Yesterday while browsing in Kinokuniya , the English language Japanese bookshop, my jaw dropped when I saw displayed prominently on the art shelves a truly...
The Tipton Three are the three British citizens who were incarcerated in Guantanamo Bay for 2 years without charge and without trial. Their release and return...
In the States, anyway. Check here for yours . Mine is Candy Man by Sammy Davis, Jr, which I can live with. Perusing the whole list that runs from the 1940s to...
