The revolution will be pixelated
In Verbal, Darran Anderson considers the paper versus pixels debate: It’s only in recent years that Internet publishing has become accessible and available enough to make a substantial impact. With free facilities such as Blogger and MySpace, the means of expression are now available to those who couldn’t afford, or didn’t have the expertise, to […]
Offbeat TV VII
Who the fuck are The Offbeats? Andrew Gallix, 3:AM‘s editor-in-chief explains all: Further: The Offbeat Generation / The Offbeat Generation Film Channel / Matthew Coleman reads ‘Dream Poem’ / Heidi James reads two pieces / Adelle Stripe reads 3 poems / Ben Myers reads four Brutalist poems / Matthew Coleman reads from Her Naked Self […]
Arts bite: The Brother
There was a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it exhibition of works by Miceal O Nuallain on in my home town recently. O Nuallain is of course the younger brother of Irish novelist Flann O’Brien and the exhibition, Memorabilia of Myles Na Gopaleen, was a tribute to the great humorist. Some of the best works in the show included a […]
Pure gold
Dan Rhodes gets some love from the Bookslut: Have you heard any recent literary award announcements and thought, they got that exactly right? Obviously the judges of the Clare Maclean Prize were bang on. More often than not I won’t have read the books so it’ll be hard to say. It was good to see […]
they fuck you up, your mum & dad
The “ageing enfant terrible” of French literature is in trouble with his “old slut of a mother” (again): [Michel] Houellebecq was later raised in a grey French suburb by his paternal grandmother, whose surname he took in her honour. In his bestselling novel Les Particules él émentaires, translated as Atomised and made into a film […]