There used to be a great Martin Amis website at http://martinamis.albion.edu/. Then it disappeared. Now it's come back, with a new web address and editor. You...
Superb review of Coupland's latest novel JPod at 3:AM by Dogmatika 's Susan Tomaselli. To quote her quote from the book: "You feel chilled because you have no...
Interview with Canongate supremo Jamie Byng in the Scotsman , still heading up one of the most successful independent UK publishers: "Before Life of Pi, which...
Over on will-self.com Mr Hall's posted a suitably ridiculous competition Q & A for you to win a signed copy of Will Self's new opus, The Book Of Dave. Send him...
New on Spike: Kenn Taylor talks to Niall Griffiths , the author of Grits and Sheepshagger, about his new novel Wreckage, and his new home town Aberystwyth....
Last week a copy of 3:AM Magazine's The Edgier Waters anthology arrived here in Bangkok (thanks Andrew!) - while I've yet to read the majority of this book,...
Proof, if proof be need be, that you can make the Bible justify anything: "The sex act called fisting is a source of confusion and misconceptions for many...
"Women, romance novels and revealing snapshots have always been a cause for public fascination and blogger Qin Dai has incorporated all of these elements on...
If you haven't been keeping up, Will Self has posted a couple of new blogs whilst on his book reading tour in the last few days. Tim invited me down to the...
Sometime in June 1996 the first version of Spike Magazine arrived on the Internet. I'd learned HTML in a weekend thanks to one of Laura Lemay's doorstop books...
A book review I wrote over on Travelhappy: China Inc.: The Relentless Rise of the Next Great Superpower - Ted Fishman's China Inc. offers a breakneck tour of...
First Freak Brothers strip in 10 years . [via BoingBoing ] -- Posted by Chris to splinters: books, authors, literature, travel, politics at 7/05/2006 03:39:39...
I've set up Free New Books over at - surprise! - Free-New-Books.com - it's a site where I'm showcasing recently published books that have been made available...
Trolling around for a deeply dull bit of web design info, I tripped over a forum where one contributor was asking advice on fixing something on his political...
"But when Kenny G decided that it was appropriate for him to defile the music of the man who is probably the greatest jazz musician that has ever lived by...
I mentioned this on Free-New-Books.com but I think it's worth repeating here - author Thomas Dowler has been using MySpace to promote a free download of his...
A while ago, Bobby Henderson published The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster , an elaborate satire of Intelligent Design theory which has gained huge...
Sort of. "And it gets better. For those of you troubled by the lingering idea (instilled in youth by parents obsessed with the benefits of "enjoying the...
Seth Godin is one of my favourite writers. He is a marketer, which should make him the Antichrist, but Seth's writing on his blog is always, always full of...
Spike contributor and burgeoning novelist Ian Hocking has recently published a two part interview with Mil Millington , author of A Certain Chemistry and Love...
Following on from my interview with ex-Waterstone's Head Buyer Scott Pack back in February, Ian Hocking has also caught up with Mr Pack now he's finally left...
a href="http://www.spikemagazine.com/0806-michel-houellebecq-atomised-movie-Elementarteilchen.php" target="_top"> Michel Houellebecq's Elementarteilchen...
Over on Travelhappy, a quick post about Bradley Martin's Under The Loving Care Of The Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty and Guy Delisles graphic...
In Singapore last week. Plaza Singapura, one of the never-ending gleaming malls, had a book sale. Not a cardboard-box-full-of-still-overpriced-crap sale like...
So then - what book titles should be on the Booker list then, besides Remainder ? Has anyone done an alternative Booker list? Or is everything shite? Answers...
Interesting Guardian article about the still enduring legacy of Bill Hicks , which has been highlighted again by a couple of performances at the Edinburgh...
A sterling review from Chris Hall of Matthew Robertson's Factory Records: The Complete Graphic Album (FAC 461) . Nice. -- Posted by Chris to splinters: books,...
This is spectacularly wrong on so many levels: "Mumbai, India ( AHN ) - A Hitler-themed restaurant that opened last week in India's major financial district is...
Un-fucking-believable. "Everything was carefully inspected [at the airport], including my camera, laptop - and my books. The first one, a German novel, seemed...
