London Pub Reviews
This incredible collection of pastiche reviews reverses the superior role of the reviewer and offers a wide-eyed and gently mocking vision of a British institution. His masterful use of a variety of literary tricks — synedoche, parody, metaphor and allusion, ensures that the books essentially repetitive nature is never less than glorious and of course, essential. He perfectly captures the ambiguity and therefore covertly sinister nature of the ‘pub-space’.
Heidi James raises a glass to Paul Ewen‘s London Pub Reviews.
Writing From The Edge
Writing From The Edge: Tony O’Neill and Tommy Trantino Scheduled for Thursday, Jun 21st (7pm) Macnally at Robinson Booksellers, Prince Street, NYC — this is an historic appearance by Tommy Trantino (pictured), the prison author whose book Lock The Lock (Knopf, 1974) was lauded by luminaries such as Henry Miller, Allen Ginsberg, Kurt Vonnegut and […]
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Stewart Home reads PLUS: more tub thumping by Doctor Reekie. FLIXATION Underground Cinema Club Wednesday 25th April Miller of Mansfield 96 Snowsfields, London SE1 3SS 8pm £4/ £3 concs A smorgasbord of no-budget underground cinema, digital jiggery pokery, modernist pop, DIY performance and music. Short films featuring nerve shredding thrills in Len Combest’s Untitled 27 […]
Marguerite Duras in Ballet Shoes
The writing of Gwendoline Riley, to me at least, is more like Marguerite Duras in ballet Shoes: like Marguerite Duras Gwendoline Riley knows what to leave behind, what to resist, to ignore; she knows that writing is much stronger for this; she realises that the spaces between the words matter — she is fearless, brave enough to turn her back, to deliver her own idea of contemporary Literature, and, more importantly, because of this remarkable maturity her prose, like Marguerite Duras’, is as delicate in movement as a ballet dancer’s.
Lee Rourke on Gwendoline Riley‘s Joshua Spassky.
Confidencia: The Ben Richards Interview
TV writing has taught me a number of things though. It’s not illegal to try and entertain through your story. Structure is important and pretending it isn’t doesn’t make you smart… Thinking about your audience/readers isn’t vulgar. I guess that’s why I’ve always had an attraction for writers like Arnold Bennett and Patrick Hamilton. Who I believe are still underestimated by snobs and charlatans.
Ben Richards talks to Andrew Stevens about his career as a novelist and screenwriter.
Two Manuscripts and a Microphone
3:AM Poetry Editor and author of eeeee eee eeee and bed Tao Lin (pictured) will be reading alongside Tony O’Neill (Digging the Vein and Seizure Wet Dreams) in Manhattan, NY later this week. Sunday April 29, from 2pm Phoenix Reading Series High Chai (18 Ave. B)