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...
Via Alina Stefanescu: + Warren Ellis : a PDF of a 37-page interview with Burroughs by the Paris Review in 1965, here. -- Posted by Chris to splinters: books,...
Eye-stabbingly repulsive 100 word fiction from Mike Atherton. Nice. -- Posted by Chris to splinters: books, authors, literature, travel, politics at 8/26/2006...
David Bishop is writing a history of 2000AD , one of the UK's most influential comics and starting point for the likes of Alan Moore. He's got an excellent...
Grumpy Old Bookman wrote recently - " blogs don't sell books ". I think not. Some real examples: Belle De Jour and Girl With A One Track Mind both had...
Veteran erotic fiction writer Susie Bright has a pleasingly different interview with Melinda Gebbie and Alan Moore about their new erotic fairytale odyssey,...
Over on Will-Self.com, Will has published a new, previously unpublished, short story called The Gesture . -- Posted by Chris to splinters: books, authors,...
A quick round up of stuff that's arrived at Spike Towers recently, with synopsis cribbed from Amazon and some random thoughts from me. Sawn-Off Tales David...
I hadn't mentioned any interest in it, but my dad bought me the DVD of Bob Dylan's Chronicles last Christmas, at around the same time my girlfriend bought me...
Quelle cocking surprise. VNUNet : "Google's controversial Book Search is driving traffic to booksellers, new figures show. According to web monitoring firm...
Momus highlights the arrival of Rob Young's big coffeetable book about Rough Trade records chronicling the rise and fall and rise again of the label, with...
Girl With A One Track Mind - the Abby Lee interview "...it's about time that a different - non-sexist, non-passive, progressive female - perspective on...
"After Hugo Chavez recommended Noam Chomsky s Hegemony or Survival: Americas Quest for Global Dominance at the U.N. Wednesday, the book shot up bestseller...
Momus recounts Bowie's musical character assassination of Ricky Gervais in Extras , then composes his own self-destruction rhyming couplets as Bowie would sing...
With a title like Hadyn's Last Polyp , how can you resist? -- Posted by Chris to splinters: books, authors, literature, travel, politics at 9/29/2006 12:42:54...
The reviews for Kingdom Come have been almost universally lazy hackwork ("Seer of Shepperton", blah blah, "Shanghai internment", blah blah, "Crash very nasty...
Naturally I'll be reading every one - well, the first two at least. The Joke's Over: Bruised Memories: Gonzo, Hunter S. Thompson and Me - Ralph Steadman The...
Why would you care about the Booker Prize when you've got this ? From all the drugs the one i like more is music From all the junks the one i need more is...
