The Endpoint of all gravity is the grave: a Triple Canopy podcast on the activities of the INS. * “[L]et’s tear it all down, with our tongues in our cheeks”: the enduring appeal of Billy Liar. * Too Fast to Live Too Young to Die. * The art of punk. * Sex and the Situationists. * Underground Resistance is go! * First issue of Salon Futura, including Sam Jordison. * FragLit: a webzine devoted to “fragmentary writing” (via). * George Formby, first pop star. * Tom McCarthy reviews Gabriel Josipovici’s What Ever Happened to Modernism? More here. * Brazilian pulp fiction covers. * Sean O’Hagan on the late Corinne Day. * David Mitchell interviewed in The Rumpus: “Possibly novelists are all aliens among natives”. * Ping. * British Remains. * An interview with Blake Butler. * How to make a steampunk Mr Potato Head. * The best modern literary tours. * The strippers of Shoreditch. * Jenny Diski on Banksy’s Granny. * Will Self interviewed in the Telegraph. * The future is ours. * David Foster Wallace’s 1996 Bookworm talk (via). * Another Morrissey controversy, this time following Simon Armitage’s Guardian interview. * Janette Beckman. * Anglarchy: Ian Bone and Ray Roughler Jones interviewed by The Idler.
First posted: Sunday, September 5th, 2010.
