[16.7.05][Andrew Gallix] THE MISSING LINKS Patti Smith becomes Commander of the Order of the Arts and Letters! * Claude Simon est mort.* Kevin Smith joins the ranks of bloggers. * Launch of Shanghaist. * A survivor from the King's Cross bomb tells her story on Urban75. * Iain Sinclair on the terrorist attacks: "The novelty of the recent atrocities lay in the astonishing immediacy of the forms of remembrance. No editing, no staged highlights. No retakes. We seem to be remembering events that have not yet occurred. A fabulous stream of low-definition, drift imagery: pedestrians swimming through smoke and fuzzy light. Recorded by someone, anyone, who is a part of the event, not a privileged outsider. Tunnels and trains captured on a mobile-phone. We see through our pores. We exchange deep memory for a disposable sense of present time. Everything is out there, nothing is special. The past is redundant." * Bookslut starts organising readings. (And a very happy birthday to Jessa Crispin.) * Over at Splinters, Ismoreminds us "how misleading it is to talk about English-language websites in too specific geographic terms". * The history of Marc Zermati's legendary Skydog Records, one of the very first punk indie labels. * JT Leroy has a blog. * Contact us if you want to buy the first issue of The Paris Bitter Hearts Pit. * William Gibson in Wired on the legacy of William Burroughs' cut-ups: "'Who owns the words?' asked a disembodied but very persistent voice throughout much of Burroughs' work. Who does own them now? Who owns the music and the rest of our culture? We do. All of us. Though not all of us know it -- yet". * Irvine Welsh claims that Leith is being invaded by yuppies: "The controversial writer, who is due to get married to his American fiancee in Dublin later this month, said Leith was being taken over by 'yuppies' in a similar fashion to what is happening in Belfast, Cardiff and Liverpool. But he admitted he was currently living in a posh flat in Dublin himself, conceding: 'It's difficult to always practise what you preach'." * Harry Potter mania. * Sigur Ros on Flickr. * The New Yorker on Roald Dahl. * I've just started archiving my short stories, so if you want more Gallix (and, frankly, who doesn't?), go here where you'll find, for instance, an extract from "Sweet Fanny Adams" read and mis en musique by 3:AM's Steven Rogers. * Switch off, slow down. * Gary Snyder. * Definitely worth a look: Bookdwarf. * Karl Marx tops the charts! * DH Lawrence's travel writing. * I know Andrew Stevens' already linked to it, but I couldn't resist quoting these two extracts from today's Russ Meyer review in The Guardian: "If I wasn't so into tits I probably could've been a great film-maker" and "You can never have too many women in a picture". [permalink]
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