You Fill Me With Inertia
All down to the Horse Hospital on 10 December for You Fill Me With Inertia with the John Moore Rock’n’Roll Trio (including members of the Jesus & Mary Chain, Black Box Recorder, Lush and Ride), Viv Albertine (The Slits), Mr Solo (David Devant & His Spirit Wife, Glam Chops), Graham Bendel (author of A Nasty […]
Unbeatific
As a group of people, the Beat writers seem, by-and-large, to have been a particularly obnoxious bunch. In a lot of cases, being on the road seems to have just been an opportunity to have run away from their responsibilities to family and friends. Any number of them were alcoholics, drug addicts, homophobic (in at least one case whilst being homosexual themselves), racist, and appallingly misogynistic. Whatever their achievements as writers, they certainly seemed to have been hideously bad at being human beings.
Pádraig Ó M éalóid on Harvey Pekar‘s The Beats.
ampere’s and
Today’s quick lit [& alt.cult] links from around the web: Art versus books, a critical double standard & Typo, a monthly newspaper & literary review 1887-1897 (via Leftunderbooks / @davidbmetcalfe) & ‘All That’, a story by David Foster Wallace in the New Yorker & More What Bolaño read (this time, the literature of silence) & […]