Dark Voices — The Suarez S éance
Tall, gaunt, with either beret pushed forward or straggly hair pushed back over his forehead, Raymond — in both French and English — talked about his writing and adventures, his hatred of the British police force, and his literary heroes — Raymond Chandler, Jim Thompson, and David Goodis. Although the sound quality of the print was poor, the documentary showed us Robin Cook as his friends in the audience remembered him — passionate, darkly flamboyant, and extraordinarily well spoken. Watching him sing along to the Pogues while drinking his bottles of beer and glasses of red wine, one could just imagine him in The French House, Gerry’s Club, or The Coach and Horses (his “office”) in Soho.
Steve Finbow and co. gather in Euston to commune with the late Derek Raymond.
Hope you guessed my name
[Woland, from Andrzej Klimowski and Danusia Schejba’s The Master and Margarita] Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight opens in the UK next weekend. Novelist Alan Bissett considers the history of the character all the buzz surrounds: Frequently rated among the greatest fictional villains of all time, the Joker is the same chaotic trickster who appears in […]