The Baader-Meinhof blog. * Thinking and drinking. * The neuroadvertising paradox. * Jenni Fagan’s new site. * The trailer for Marc-Edouard Nabe’s new book. * The music of Friedrich Nietzsche. * John Bulmer’s pictures of the north of England in the 60s and 70s. * Ben Marcus’s website. (Related: me on Notable American Women.) * Jason Mulgrew interviewed by Steve Almond. * Oil City Confidential. * Faber editor woos Morrissey. More here. * Tao Lin’s next book. * The Guardian’s zeitgeist experiment. * The Durutti Column live: “Someone is playing a trumpet and suddenly you are there in the zone, that zone that prime time Miles Davis created with Sketches Of Spain, but dragged backwards through a post punk hedge”. * Sam Jordison on the Lost Booker. * The great divide between writing for children and adults. * Venues the Pistols played in. * Check out the covers of Lee Rourke’s The Canal and Ben Myers’s Richard. * Extracts from Patti Smith’s Just Kids. * Phony young narrators. * Temple Grandin: “[I]f you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn’t have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social ‘yak yaks’.” * Best London novel. * A musical journey to the centre of Bret Easton Ellis. * The Foundry to be destroyed. * “The Boys Blue appear to have invented punk while people were still listening to Gerry and the Pacemakers.” * Best book blogs. * Big dicks. * The story behind Jah Wobble’s new video. * American Pop Lit.
First posted: Sunday, February 7th, 2010.
