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[11.12.05] [Andrew Gallix]
THE MISSING LINKS
David Foster Wallace's Consider the Lobster is reviewed in The Observer: "Subversive and hip, with a mind tuned to a different frequency, Wallace is singing a song in a key we've not heard before. Original writers don't fit in boxes and Wallace is sui generis on a stick". * The Sunday Times on the creative guerillas: "Across the capital, strange things are happening. Next to the bus stop at London Bridge, Trinny and Susannah's billboard ad for Nescafe has been cut into squares and artfully scrambled into an image of an Asbo youth. Behind St Pancras parish church, a shop has started selling books with no barcode ISBN number and no author. And over in the East End, a derelict railway arch has been transformed overnight into a boutique for an avant-garde designer, which will open for a day, only to disappear at dusk. This is the shadowy world of the creative guerrillas -- a global movement of non-aligned artists, musicians, writers and fashion folk who are ambushing mainstream culture in pursuit of their separatist aims". * Remember The Mob's gig at Meanwhile Gardens? * An interview with Todd Colby. * The comic vicar. * Guess what Kimberly Nichols is up to these days. * Giving bums a lift. * The worst album covers of all time. * 61 bands and their corresponding authors. * Stanley Kubrick's photography. * 3:AM's picks of 2005 in dogmatika. * Andrew Merrifield, author of a book about Guy Debord, is interviewed by our friends at Ready Steady Book. On the subject of Debord, you can find some of his films here (link also via Ready Steady Book). * Penguin have started podcasting. * The latest issue of Smoke is out now. (See our 2004 interview with Matt Haynes and Jude Rogers.) * Karen Duve's This is Not a Love Song reviewed. * Charlie Don't Surf: a cinematic tribute to Joe Strummer. * Jeremy Mercer's top 10 bookshops. His book is reviewed by novelist Terence Blacker (who describes it as a "small classic of literary life") in The Sunday Times: "Jeremy Mercer, a Canadian in his twenties, was one of those whose life was changed by his time at Shakespeare and Company, and so, more than 30 years ago, was I. One of the surprises to emerge from this book is how little has changed in the place where once I worked, slept, read, got myself beaten up, failed to have sex, and listened to more pretentious bullshit than I have heard before or since. There was, and is, no bookshop quite like it anywhere in the world". * dogmatika on Snowbooks (who will be bringing out the 3:AM anthology in April). * The London Review of Breakfasts. * The Cravats have a website! * Alexander Masters pockets the Guardian First Book Award. * Punk legend Alex Fergusson. * Amelia's Magazine. * Harold Pinter's Nobel acceptance speech. * Zembla Magazine goes tits up! (See our interview with Dan Crowe.) * Now that's what I call blogging! *
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