Dan Rhodes’ Gold
In summary, I would like to compare Gold with a pint of ale. The pint of ale I would choose is a Summer Lightning Gold Ale from the Hop Back Brewery:
“IN A FLAT, WATERED DOWN WORLD OF TASTELESS NEW BOOKS, GOLD SHINES LIKE A FRESH, WELL-POURED ALE, SUCH AS A HOP BACK BREWERY SUMMER LIGHTNING.”
Paul Ewen gives his assessment of Dan Rhodes‘ new novel.
Prurient Interest
Male chauvinist pig that he was, he chose the door labeled “MEN.” Squeezing his eyelids closed until the sockets were vacuum-tight, he reached for the doorknob and stepped inside. He opened his eyes. Inside a clinically spotless room there were, of course MEN. Manly men…Irish Springers and Dingalingers…singers, swingers and assorted Bada-bingers…Flim-flammers and shim-shammers…assorted players, soothsayers and BRUT-sprayers…buccaneers, bun warmers and Desert Stormers…BURLY MEN and girly men…camouflage-wearers and Sugar Bearers…
By Professor ARTURO (Arthur Pfister).
The French Offbeat Generation
En Attendant l’or (MySpace), the French Offbeat Generation magazine — created by Antoine Dole, Olivia Michel and Laura Berent — will be launched on Thursday 15 March at Le R éservoir 16 rue de la Forge Royale, 75011 Paris (m étro: Ledru-Rollin). Doors open at 8pm.
Total Disregard for Convention
Calls for submission for Semina, a new series edited by Stewart Home and published by Book Works will be announced in April 2007. Aiming to publish nine books over three years from a combination of open submission and commission, Semina is looking for experimental work, from young and unknown artists and writers willing to take […]
Uplifting Doughnuts
Tainted men glow guise, preambulatory beatniks perusing rose-enchanted dream peddlers — how ugly seems my thinness. We’re taken with sour doorways, what it means to grin at the end of pure thought, enlightened toad. Blocked-out the alleyways hallelujah in the armageddon style flatulence victory, time to be alone spinning blithe disenchantment with the rays. Nobody supports hermaphroditic legacy bartering.
By Travis Jeppesen.
LDN is the Place for Me: Sukhdev Sandhu
The Borribles or James Herbert’s The Rats tell you more about London in the 1970s than anything by, say, Doris Lessing… London is a place of radical discontinuities – wealth and poverty, high and low art, heritage and Olympic Stadium-sized transformation. It lends itself to avant-pulpists – writers who straddle apparently contradictory styles and genres.
Andrew Stevens talks crime and grime with Sukhdev Sandhu.