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...
When I reviewed Bill Bryson's excellent book about the English language, Mother Tongue , a couple of years ago, I was particularly taken by his description of...
Via Buzzwords , this great interview with Nick Cave about The Proposition, the Australian Western for which he wrote the screenplay. The beginning of it has...
(Nativesun Records) Or Soccer Moms Gone Wild. Had Alicia Bridges fronted Flock of Seagulls the excretions might have sounded like those of this quartet of...
(WTii Records) Although it isn't anomalous to catch strong whiffs of metal wafting out of today's kraut-techno, urbania was a resource woefully underemployed...
(COP International Records) A fair-to-middling techno sole-proprietorship, Chiasm spotlights Michigan's Emileigh Rohn, posed on her album cover as an...
(Nativesun Records) Or Soccer Moms Gone Wild. Had Alicia Bridges fronted Flock of Seagulls the excretions might have sounded like those of this quartet of...
(Wampus Records) Too-good-for-MTV dollop of Tom Petty cowpoke, Flaming Lips spunk and a Grateful Dead fetish for choo-choos ("Outbound Train" and "Clover," a...
(Candlelight Records) Propagandized as a more middle of the road type metal operation, Grimfist's sound would be identical to Metallica's "Ride the Lightning"...
(Candlelight Records) Thrill to the spectacle of Audrey Horne making a quick snack out of Disturbed and using emo as a toothpick. Tightly constructed, very...
(Ureneely Recordings) The next generation's Quentin Tarantino would cartwheel for joy at the thought of a band like this - crunchy, woozy, compressed beat-box...
(Compost Records) When French soundtrack go-to-guy Tree isn't pelting his espresso-beatnik jazz manga with static spitballs he can be found indulging in...
(COP International Records) A fair-to-middling techno sole-proprietorship, Chiasm spotlights Michigan's Emileigh Rohn, posed on her album cover as an...
(Abstract Sounds) Medium-speed sleaze-metal so full of its double-Y self it can't help but succeed. AWOL from his writing/cartooning/psychiatric-ward-squatting...
Robert McCrum of The Observer lists what the paper believes to be t he top 50 players in the (British) world of books. I read it absent-mindedly muttering...
