Sexton Blakes!
Stewart Home reviews the International Necronautical Society‘s authentically inauthentic Tate Declaration on Inauthenticity: …For their 17 January shindig, the INS hired actors to play General Secretary Tom ‘Thunderbird’ McCarthy and Chief Philosopher Simon ‘Hip Hugger’ Critchley. The event sold out well in advance because a sensation hungry public were under the entirely false impression that […]
Some good descriptions of nipples
Killen is economical. He uses his words sparingly when too many writers have a tendency to over-write. In this sense he has quite a lot in common with Richard Brautigan and, to a lesser extent, Raymond Carver. And, to an even lesser extent, the haiku poetry of the Japanese masters. Or maybe a Jarvis Cocker chorus. Or a Mike Leigh exchange beneath a lamppost at midnight, in a Manchester back street. On this evidence I think he’ll write many great books in the future.
Ben Myers on Chris Killen‘s debut The Bird Room.