Friday November 20th, 7.30pm
Upstairs at The Wheatsheaf, 25 Rathbone Place, London W1
Literary event deviser and curator (for Barbican Film), magazine writer and Associate Literary Editor of Nude magazine Jay Clifton will be interviewing American writer Susan Compo about the whole spectrum of her career, including her days as the editor of the early 80s LA punk fanzine Blank Generation, her short story collections Life After Death and Other Stories (published in the USA in 1990 by Faber and Faber, and praised by such diverse figures as Henry Rollins, Alex Cox, the late Hubert Selby Jr. and Pamela Des Barres) and Malingering, her novel Pretty Things and her most recent book on the late film actor Warren Oates. During the 1990s Susan also wrote for music magazines Mojo and Spin, interviewing post-punk bands and singers such as The Cramps, Debbie Harry and Robert Smith of The Cure.
