[14.6.05][Andrew Gallix] THE MISSING LINKS An interview with Ex-Pistol Paul Cook. * Iain Sinclair talks to Londonist about publishing (among many other interesting things): "That's essentially what they want: a photogenic 18 to 25 year old with possibly an interesting story in their past. Just a one book pitch that you can go right out on big time. And then they're not really that interested in their second or third book. To some extent they've created a brand or a franchise, but it's first book syndrome. It's quite depressing for the kind of writers who grind away at it for years sort of honing their craft and then do the book. Unless they get to be completely old and crazy or they've had some criminous past that can be used they're just not going to get their books done. I find it depressing that publishing is becoming a branch of the celebrity industry. I suppose it's inevitable. The nature of the shops has changed so much too, going into those ones that are very Americanised, all glittery and bright, coffee and all that. The old dusty heaps have gone from the landscape." * The brand newRoald Dahl museum. * Art Brut's debut reviewed in Artrocker. * Chasing the green fairy in London. * Steve Almond's great sex records you've never heard. * Believer Books are publishing a translation of Michel Houellebecq's HP Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life. * Irvine Welsh at the Leith Festival. * Girls & Corpses: (s)nuff said. * The question you've all been pondering for ages: Luton punks -- where are they now? * Robert Chalmers gives away his book for free. * Chinese literature. * Vote for the greatest philosopher of our time! * Chavs make it into the dictionary. * The Pipettes. * The Orange Prize: do we still need it? * Seventy years of Penguin design at the Victoria & Albert in London. * George Galloway and the un-Muslim nipple. * Julie Burchill is interviewed by Spike. On chavs: "The working-class in the old days kept their heads down, were so fucking decent and wonderful, and it got them jack shit. Chavs are there for a reason, because the decent way, the good way, didn't fucking work." On Moz: "I adore the man. He seems to be very civilised now; he seems more happy. Isn't it funny it took America to make him more relaxed? I said to him, 'You've grown into your looks, you look like someone's sexy uncle that you'd get off with at a wedding.' . . . Would you sleep with Morrissey if he asked and you were gay? If he was straight and I was single I still think I wouldn't do it. I'd just be thinking 'Oh fuck it's Morrissey!' the whole time. . . . You would?! But you'd have to slap him round a bit afterwards!! That's what Madonna said about Billy Ray Cyrus. She said 'I'd do him, but I'd have to slap him round a bit and make him cry afterwards because of Achey Breaky Heart' and I'd have to do that to Morrissey because -- what's the crap thing he's done? -- 'Bengali In Platforms'? Course he's a genius, but you wouldn't wanna live with him would you?" * The iPod generation is turning to audiobooks. [permalink]
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