Germaine Greer saying mostly silly things about Proust. * Dave Eggers on the future of the printed press. * Some of Maripol’s famous Polaroids. * Jon Savage on Link Wray’s “switch-blade sharp riffage” which makes “you want to do what deep and dirty rock does — all the things you shouldn’t”. * Captain Sensible goes trainspotting. * How Waterstone’s killed bookselling. * Kingston University Press launches on 1 December. * The J. Simons story. * Alan McGee on Kraftwerk: “It’s almost impossible to overestimate Kraftwerk’s contribution to modern music and life”. * French glamour girls of the 50s and 60s. * Designer Jean-Charles de Castelbajac pays homage to the late Jacno. * Stewart Home on high weirdness in the Paris suburbs. * Jean-Luc Godard: anti-Semite? * Wanted: François Raymond. * Simon Reynolds: “…the beard has become one of the crucial, era-defining signifiers for non-mainstream rock in the noughties”. * Christiana Spens, columnist for Cambridge’s The Tab. * Steve Almond on Kurt Vonnegut. * Grayson Perry in conversation with Will Self. * Hipster wife hunting. * 1950s hipster slang. * The rebirth of Plastiscines.
First posted: Sunday, November 15th, 2009.
