Gunshot slums and lavish penthouses
Coming in October from exciting new publishers Future Fiction London, a “themed pairing..of sumptuous, transcendent fictional works”: Ximena, Neo-Geisha Hillary Raphael‘s “latest dispatch from the darkest corner of capitalism” and Cat Life [excerpted here], Geracao 2000 [Generation 2000] Clarah Averbuck‘s “anti-love story that redefined youth in Brazil”. An imprint of Creation Books, Future Fiction London […]
Popularity is So Boring
A celebration of transgressive sexual desire (by transgressive I mean that which doesn’t induce commerce), brutal tenderness and the bloody fragility of the human psyche. The photos have a feral impact, with rich tones, and colours, and duplicitous layering of multiple images, which creates a subtlety and beauty that, is unexpected. This book isn’t an unsophisticated compilation of angst, linear and adolescent, but complex, humane and innocent.
Heidi James prepares for ricochets from Lydia Lunch‘s The Gun is Loaded.