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Transgressive Cultures 2019, schedule. 5th December, 2019. 9:00 Welcome coffee and introduction Jack Sargeant Phd Session One: 9:15 Jeremy Bell Eros noir: On the Aesthetic Anthropology of Transgression 9:55 Laurence Thompson SELVA OSCURA Dante and the Shadow Canon 10:35 Nicholas Martin The Downtown Collection: Experimental, Outsider and Transgressive Cultures at NYU Libraries. Break 11:10 – 11:20 Session Two: 11:20 Jack Sargeant, The Ritual. 11:55 Matthew Worley, Whip In My Valise: British Punk and the Marquis de Sade. Lunch 12:35 – 2:00 Session Three: 2:00 Film Screening: Tom Garretson A Baroque Grotesque 2:40 Donna K. The Dinner, The Prayer, The Culture,

According to Rob Doyle, Serotonin “reanimates the long-felt suspicion that each Houellebecq novel is an instalment in the biography of the author’s penis”. * Eimear McBride on why the novel matters: “The novelist must never deceive themself with the idea that they are in charge: the novel is. And this is not always an easy role to accept when the demands of the industry and the readership and the ego are so great”. * Matthew Turner on the architecture of fascism in Ingeborg Bachmann’s Malina. * Nice John Cale retrospective. * Ben Lerner: “It’s one thing to depict a very

Love Bites (Dostoyevsky Wannabe), edited by Tomo é Hill, C.D. Rose and yours truly, will be launched in Manchester (where else?) next week. Hosted by the mighty C.D. Rose himself, there will be readings from @emmaZbolland, @JonathanMKemp, @zimZalla, @CuriosoTheGreat and more. Be there or be sober! When: Saturday 5th October 6.30-11 pm. Where: Gullivers, 109 Oldham Street, M4 1LW Manchester, United Kingdom.

Love Bites, edited by Tomo é Hill, C.D. Rose and yours truly, is out now! It contains 35 short stories inspired by the late Pete Shelley and Buzzcocks by Emma Bolland, Victoria Briggs, Tobias Carroll, Shane Jesse Christmass, David Collard, Sarah-Clare Conlon, Lara Alonso Corona, Cathleen Davies, Jeremy Dixon, Sharron Duggal, Wendy Erskine, Gerard Evans, Javi Fedrick, Mark Fiddes, Andrew Gallix, Meave Haughey, Tomo é Hill, Richard V. Hirst, David Holzer, Andrew Hook, Tom Jenks, Jonathan Kemp, Luke Kennard, Mark Leahy, Neil Nixon, Russell Persson, Hette Phillips, Julie Reverb, C.D. Rose, Lee Rourke, Germán Sierra, Beach Sloth, NJ Stallard and

Matthew Wascovich of Scarcity of Tanks, one of the original members of the 3:AM Magazine team, informs us of the bad news that his bandmate Andrew Klimeyk has suffered a stroke. Please help him if you can by donating here.

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David Collard, the genius behind Finneganight — which celebrated 80 years of Finnegans Wake — wants “to change the way that we talk about books”. Help him do so by attending A Night of Pure Moby Dickery in London on 27th July. Tickers are on sale here. A Night of Pure Moby Dickery is prompted by the 200th birthday this year of Herman Melville. No better setting can be imagined for a celebration of his salty maritime epic — a boat in a church in a landlocked London borough. There will be lashings of grog and cocoa and ginger cake,

We’ll Never Have Paris is on sale now. Listen to the podcast here or below: https://soundcloud.com/shakespeareandcompany/paris-as-textual-space

We’ll Never Have Paris, bien sûr!

We’ll Never Have Paris launch at Burley Fisher, London.

David Collard‘s “The Past is a Foreign City” appears on p. 191 of We’ll Never Have Paris.

Chris Power‘s “French Exchanges” appears on p. 38 of We’ll Never Have Paris.