Two cracking reviews from Ben now up: The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil - George Saunders Someone To Drive You Home - The Long Blondes -- Posted by Chris...
Following on from not having a clue about what graphic novels to buy, Nerve have a 20 Comics That Can Change Your Life . Amusingly, the two I most want to read...
New stuff on Will-Self.com , including Will's schedule of appearances etc for the next few months. -- Posted by Chris to splinters: books, authors, literature,...
Warren Ellis on his forthcoming novel Crooked Little Vein : "This all started when I inherited a literary agent upon signing with the Writers And Artists...
Sometimes I just can't read books anymore. Something about reading becomes very oppressive. This is usually when I retreat to reading graphic novels instead -...
Three new reviews on Spike, courtesy of Edmund Hardy and Ian Hocking: Gert Hofman:Parable Of The Blind "How does a book like this pierce through to us, when...
Simon Sellars, creator of ace JG Ballard site Ballardian.com , also regularly writes for Lonely Planet. He's contributed sections to the Lonely Planet Japan...
Discovered Strange Attractor through The Midnight Bell . Looks lovely. Might be able to find a copy in London while I'm back in Blighty for Christmas. (From 30...
I wrote before about the Hunter S Thompson Death Industry - and it grinds on with the showing of the documentary "Buy The Ticket, Take The Ride" on American TV...
This is a temporary post that was not deleted. Please delete this manually. (db0ce4a4-5b73-453b-8a29-6093e4ea2d96) -- Posted by Chris to splinters: books,...
Paul Neilan, author of Apathy And Other Small Victories, has a blog that's making me want to read the book even more. I found it because he linked Jayne's...
Websites, like newspapers and magazines, thrive on getting sent free stuff by companies to write about. Getting paid by companies to review stuff is considered...
Will Self on the pain of trying to acquire quotation rights to that early 80s masterpiece "Rhythm Is A Dancer". -- Posted by Chris to splinters: books,...
James Gleick in the NY Times on the Oxford English Dictionary's quiet revolution to keep up with the incredible speed of change in the English language. "The...
If you're an author with a book who doesn't have the time, money or inclination to set up your own blog or website, Squidoo.com provides a free, quick method...
Apathy and Other Small Victories - Paul Neilan "...Angst plus equal parts sublimated anger, life seen through the grime of a Greyhound bus window, disposable...
is the bona fide name of a website. A refreshing marketing perspective, that. On there you can find this article by Danny Bernardi about finding a publisher...
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...
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...
The reviews for Kingdom Come have been almost universally lazy hackwork ("Seer of Shepperton", blah blah, "Shanghai internment", blah blah, "Crash very nasty...
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...
Momus recounts Bowie's musical character assassination of Ricky Gervais in Extras , then composes his own self-destruction rhyming couplets as Bowie would sing...
"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...
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...
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...
Quelle cocking surprise. VNUNet : "Google's controversial Book Search is driving traffic to booksellers, new figures show. According to web monitoring firm...
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...
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...
Over on Will-Self.com, Will has published a new, previously unpublished, short story called The Gesture . -- Posted by Chris to splinters: books, authors,...
