Hipsters, Flipsters & Finger-Poppin’ Daddies
The Flipside series offers an incredible overview of both emerging youth cultures and London as a world centre of libidinal energy during the 1960s and 1970s, documenting the clubs that played a key role in winning London the appellation ‘swinging’.
Stewart Home discovers an accidental history of London nightlife and youth culture via the BFI’s reissues of forgotten British movie classics, That Kind Of Girl, Privilege and Permissive.
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Today’s quick lit [& alt.cult] links from around the web: A conversation with critic Warren Motte on Oulipo, Perec & “the will toward literary innovation” [via @EliseBlackwell] & Sylvia & Co., American expatriates in Paris under Nazi occupation [via @millerwalks] & What Don DeLillo‘s books tell him & Aleksandar Hemon on DeLillo‘s Point Omega & […]