3:AM Top 5: Gavin James Bower
Along with Joe Stretch and Christiana Spens, Gavin James Bower is one of the Dark Young People, those bastard children of Fitzgerald, Ellis and Houellebecq whose subject matter is the all-consuming nightmare at the heart of the consumer dream. Dazed & Aroused, Gavin James Bower‘s highly-autobiographical debut set in the modelling world, is nothing less […]
Better Things
My husband’s best friend is named Dave. Dave lives in a van. My husband thinks that this is evidence of Dave’s exceptional intelligence. Dave has a common-sense sort of intelligence, the type of intelligence that people who are good at finance have. Dave determined that living in a van is cheaper than paying rent on an apartment. Living in a van doesn’t cost him anything, and since he showers at the Y, he doesn’t have to pay a water bill either.
By Andrea Kneeland.
Voidoid Live
A new edition of Richard Hell‘s classic 1973 novelina The Voidoid is out now on 38th Street with illustrations by Kier Cooke Sandvik (more from the young Norwegian artist here). Richard Hell and Kier Cooke Sandvik will sign the book on Saturday 27 June at Printed Matter (195 Tenth Avenue, New York City, 5-7pm, free) […]
Burmese Days
Oppression intrudes in petty, sometimes comical ways. An email takes a week to arrive. There are old copies of Time with articles cut out, speechbubbles carefully snipped away – by the time of Delisle’s visit the regime is using desktop publishing technology to remove outside contamination. And then something happens to remind you that despite the sunshine, expat culture and daycare centres this is still a cage.
Max Dunbar on Guy Delisle’s Burma Chronicles.