The Beat is coming back. * A Billy MacKenzie tribute concert, planned for 28 March at the Shepherds Bush Empire, is to include a rare appearance by Paul Haig (ex Josef K) (from le cool) * The strange story of Joyce Hatto. * The Independent are starting a Banned Books series, “25 cutting-edge titles, censored classics and literary landmarks” and yours to collect from £3.49 each. * The Daily Cross Hatch, a new comics blog with guest strips, news and reviews, interview Jeffrey Brown, who tells them his still working in a bookstore chain: “I don’t push [my comics] on people, but there have actually been a couple of weird times when someone just happened to come to the register with my book from elsewhere in the store, and also in the music department, we have a stand with a few of my books.” * Sara Gran considers the number 23 (and UnBeige play spot-the-difference between Number 23 star Jim Carrey and Lou Reed) * Matt Madden wonders if the Moomins are the true Others from Lost. * Top 20 French comics (via LHB) *Le Monstre, a literary London quarterly. * Fever zine, a lo-fi exploration of art, music, fashion, photography and zine culture. * Rizoma, a collective project on poetry, literature, cinema & politics (via wood s lot) * How not to read Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves (via Bookslut) * A Bookmunch interview with Matt Beaumont: “I’d rather have a review in [Heat] than in The Guardian anyway.” * Nothing like a good shunning. * Radar interview Martin Amis who, as Maud Newton so nicely puts it, “manages to swagger even online.” * Mr Hirst goes to Hollywood. * RSB talk to Toby Butler of Memoryscape, sound walks that invite you to experience the hidden history of a place by listening to the memories of inhabitants, both historical and contemporary, as you walk through it.. * Regular 3:AM contributor David Thompson’s essay on Steve Ditko. * Self-described dysfunctional dandy Dickon Edwards returns to Tangiers with Shane MacGowan (and pictured here) and takes in William Burrough’s old room at the Hotel El Muniria (aka Villa Delirium).
