Naval-gazing
Having spent a fruitless and wasteful year of my life doing post-graduate literature study at Sheffield Uni and being forced to read the navel-gazings of Kathy Acker, William Burroughs and Paul Auster, it immediately crossed my mind that I was going to hate The Raw Shark Texts.
Pete Carvill wonders if Steven Hall has jumped the shark with his debut novel?
If In Doubt Produce A Gun
We were in some downtown family-run place. I twirled spaghetti around my fork. I’d an awful feeling this was just the beginning. “Look,” I started to explain, “I don’t want it to be that sort of book. I’m not interested in action. He’s not that kind of character.”
By Rik Haslam.
3:AM Top 5: Mr Clement
Born in 1980 in Hong Kong, Mr Clement is a London-based comic artist and sculptor and has been exhibiting since 1999. His first comic, Go to Hell, May! appeared in 1998 and since then, he has written A Bird on My Head, Window, The Gorgeous Harbour and most recently, Yeah Kou Phobia. Mr Clement also […]
A Correspondence With Mike Topp
Mike Topp writes about the minutiae of life — or perhaps he writes about the minutiae of minutiae itself. Either way, he observes, captures or comments on the same inane shards of nothingness that join together to form individual existence.
Ben Myers engages in emailed hand-to-hand metaphysical combat with Mike Topp.
A State of Denmark
Cook’s spiel is, in a nutshell, that we should fight to our last breath to defend the status quo; he ardently opposes revolutionary activity precisely because it threatens the capitalist racket. It is a banality to state that capitalism adopts varying forms according to its historic needs, and that both Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia were capitalist states (as is evidenced by the fact that neither abolished money).
Stewart Home analyses the reprint of Derek Raymond‘s A State of Denmark.
Chinese-English for Lovers
Miss Guo’s real skill is not Z’s barbarous English (is easy to writing bad englishes) but her observations of the alien cities she visits, which would be effective regardless of dialectal tricks. Sometimes humorous “As soon as I arriving London, I look around the sky but no any fogs,” sometimes insightful into the oddities of our culture…
Glenn Fisher reviews Xiaolu Guo‘s A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers.