Tales of the Decongested vs. SYNT
Dual reading night at The Gallery Space, 3rd Floor, Foyles, 113-119 Charing Cross Road, London, WC2H 0EB, 26th September, 7pm. Tales of the Decongested‘s Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone and Paul Blaney have kindly given over half of their regular end-of-the-month Friday evening to See You Next Tuesday: The Second Coming‘s sex-riddled contributors. For £3 ( £2.50 concessions) […]
Shark attack
Via Disorientations, the brilliant Robert Hughes dissects Damien Hirst: The presence of a Hirst in a collection is a sure sign of dullness of taste. What serious person could want those collages of dead butterflies, which are nothing more than replays of Victorian decor? What is there to those empty spin paintings, enlarged versions of […]
fast food nation
Bradley’s writing is minimalist whilst providing enough narrative nutrition to sink your teeth into. With Lemur Bradley offers up quite a menu of characters, a veritable stew of displaced oddities.[His] prose is terse, his pace quick and chock-full of socio-political observations, cutting satirical switchblade swipes at how sex, marketing and murder are often, uncomfortably intrinsically linked. Only Tom Bradley would create a world where a malnourished, metal-faced meth-whore wearing little more a Cow and Chicken t-shirt is crushed beneath a “tidal wave of cellulite” while attempting to rob a diner.
Alan K. tucks into Lemur.
Sod that
Sam Jordison reads from his new book Sod That! 103 Things Not To Do Before You Die (and you can read 3:AM‘s interview with him here).