[4.7.05][Andrew Gallix] THE MISSING LINKS Alasdair Gray's top 10 in the latest issue of pulp.net edited by Laura Hird. You can find Hird's interview with the Scottish genius here. * Chuck Palahniuk is interviewed by Dan Epstein in Suicide Girls (who interviewed him for 3:AM back in 2001). * Don Letts talks to nerve about his new documentary: ". . . I believe the punk attitude is like the Force in Star Wars. It's a birthright. And it's out there somewhere, but probably not in the top forty. . . . Every other year there's a punk rock revival. I was kinda over it. And then I thought, Why do people keep going back to this particular time? And I realized that what we were really talking about was the counterculture. And counterculture didn't start and certainly didn't end with punk rock. I realized there's always that emphasis on the late '70s incarnation of punk, but that's a disservice. The counterculture isn't something that began in '77. When Jerry Lee Lewis jumped on that piano that was punk attitude. Chuck Berry. Bunuel movies. Lenny Bruce is punk rock. Albert Camus: punk rock. It's not just about music. It's the way you do what you do, not what you do". * The return of Jackanory. * Patrick Neate's latest gets slated in the Guardian: "Imagine East is East remade by Guy Ritchie (mockney geezer slang and all), minus the style". * CBGB: the book. * Venomous critics in The Times. * Eater in the outstanding trackMarx. * An interview with Tom Hodgkinson. * Dig! is reviewed here. * Hephzibah Anderson's article on litblogging ("In the UK, litblogging is a fledgling hobby") and Mark Thwaite's response over at ReadySteadyBook. * Julian Barnes on Frank O'Connor, David Lodge on Henry James. * Things Magazine. * Project Brainstorm. * Hovis Presley R.I.P. * France's corrupt literary prizes. * New forms of book promotion. * The Google literati. * Neil Spencer on the NME's glory days: "Enthusiasms for assorted art movements -- Derrida, Dadaism, Brecht, Industrialism, Anarchism, Structuralism -- raged through the office like super-bugs, often contracted from bands such as Scritti Politti or earnest German electro-outfits". * Young Parisians are so French. [permalink]
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