3:AM Top 5: Laurence Johns
Laurence Johns, Publisher of To Hell with Journals, can be found listening to: 1. ‘Behind Blue Eyes’ — The Who 2. ‘For Lovers’ — Wolfman featuring Pete Doherty 3. ‘Everybody Knows Her Name’ — Simon Onions 4. ‘The Devil Went to Tesco’ — The Walking Wounded 5. ‘Strange Relationship’ — Prince
The Funnies
Broken Frontier interview Micrographica creator Ren ée French, who’s exhibiting in the Louvre later on in the year: It’s an incredibly thought out exhibition, called “Toy Comix” co-curated by JC Menu from the French publisher L’Association and Dorothee Charles, curator of the Toy Department of the Musee Des Arts Decoratifs. The artists all had the […]
Writing a Rothko: An Interview With HP Tinker
When I first started being published I felt like I was producing these stories in a literary vacuum. I stayed in a lot with the curtains drawn. This was back before the Internet of course when you had to communicate via public telephones, or else write words down on pieces of paper. Steven Hall hadn’t been invented. Paul Ewen was wearing short trousers in New Zealand. Tony O’Neill was in borstal. Heidi James was a brothel keeper’s daughter. Everybody was alone and fairly frightened. Dark days indeed. Well, the context is very different now.
Chris Killen interviews “bookshop poison” HP Tinker.
Hackney Rebel
(see also Londonist)