The Sound of the Suburbs: from poetry to pop. (Motion on Larkin: “It was a place without bullshit — that’s what he liked about it. That was his version of the suburban sublime: a bullshit-free zone.”) * Nightjar Press. * Dan Rhodes talks about his new book (podcast). * David Byrne at the BBC (video). * A Post-Punk Tumblr. * An interview with Jacques Roubaud. * On Globish. * Sir Christopher Lee reads “Jabberwocky” (video). * Jon Savage‘s guide to Krautrock. * Michael Moorcock‘s playlist. * Blondes earn more than other women. * Anarchists and police spies. * Philippe Manoeuvre on Hunter S Thompson. * Hello Kitty anatomy. * Rupert Thomson on This Party’s Got to Stop. * John Baker on Le Grand Meaulnes. * Dave Barbe of Adam and the Ants interviewed. * Out of Print clothing. * How property development became the new punk rock. * Book Trailer Central (via). * The shower scene. * Parisians. * Nude housecleaning. * Mark Haddon interviews Paul Farley and Haddon on his new play.* The Beat anthology. * Antoine de Baecque on Godard. * Video interview with the reformed Libertines. * Will Self, Jonathan Coe, Helen Walsh and others on 13 years of New Labour. * Step Outside Posh Boy: the T-shirt. * So Shoot Me: a guerilla photography exhibition. * Cha: an Asian literary journal. * Jarvis Cocker reads David Eagleman. * What Ever Happened to Modernism?: “For novelist and critic Gabriel Josipovici, the contemporary novel in English is profoundly disappointing — a poor relation of its groundbreaking Modernist forebears.” * Philip Roth in his own words. * Degrees for sale. * A review of Cole Moreton‘s Is God Still an Englishman? * It’s only book ‘n’ shelves, but Keith Richards likes it. * A history of Twin Peaks on home video (via). * Peter Hook to play Unknown Pleasures live. * The American Apparel rummage sale riot. * PiL: the Ritz gig riot. * For Dudley Simpson.
