Teddy boy riots and right-wing angry young men. * Nat Finkelstein, the Factory’s photographer. * The original mods. * David Peace, who will be appearing shortly in 3:AM, interviews James Ellroy: “The most moving part of the book for me is when Joan says to Dwight, What do you want? And he says, I want to fall and I want you to catch me. That’s always what I’ve wanted; I want to fall and I want someone to catch me”. * Ren é Vi énet‘s The Girls of Kamare (via Steve Finbow). * Being Ian Dury. * Slow Down London. * The birth of Kill Your Pet Puppy. * Ferdinand Mount on suburbia. * The Vegas we love. * A chinwag with Jamie T. * Edmund White. * The anti-French song. * New issue of Triple Canopy. * The ever-elusive G-spot. * Jon Savage on 1974. * Alan Moore‘s history of erotic art. * The Horrors interviewed (video). * Punk music: never mind the cynicism. * GK Chesterton: “[W]hy shouldn’t girls grow mustaches [?]” * Bikini Kill’s Kathleen Hanna donates her papers to NYU library (via @DoubleXMag) * Yoko Ono to explain in her new book why the Beatles split up. * January’s Bookslut. * In praise of Bob Moog. * “While I enjoy the male writers she mentioned, their descriptions of lovemaking leave me cold. After reading them, I’m left wondering if these guys would rather crawl back inside their mother’s nether regions than get inside mine.” * Diagram 9.6. * How Asian punks Alien Kulture became successful businessmen: “”I remember the first time I saw the Sex Pistols on So it Goes,” Bilgrami says. “‘It was ‘Anarchy in the UK’ and I was half-asleep; hearing the song was like an awakening. I didn’t have a place in this society and it suddenly hit me that this was music that I could play, something I could be part of. …’For me, the success I have had confirms that liberal democracy and capitalism is a pretty fantastic system,’ adds the rather portly and bald Abbas, who now credits the deregulation of the financial services by one Margaret Thatcher as a key factor in allowing him to move from relative poverty to vast wealth. ‘At the time, we railed against so much of what she was doing but when you look back you think thank God she did that.'” * Escape Into Life, an online arts journal. * Jonathan Lethem‘s Brooklyn. * Curious Pages, “recommended inappropriate books for kids” (via things) * In praise of Bookforum‘s Syllabi. * Once Upon a Time in Paris, a brief history of the Olympia Press (via @millerwalks) * Is Tolstoy the greatest writer of all time? (via A Piece of Monologue) * Desperately seeking Sam, remembering Beckett 20 years after his death (via 3QD) * Knut Hamsun‘s love letters read after 118 years (via @PenguinClassics) * “I love his writing but he was a loathsome human being.” A new biography on Thomas De Quincey. * Infinite Summer is over, but 2666 Spring calls (via @Slate) * Jack the Ripper was Arthur Conan Doyle? (via @millerwalks) * James McCreet‘s top 10 Victorian detective stories. * Nick Laird on poems for babies. * The Kurosawa Digital Archive (via @davidbmetcalfe) * Midnight Eye, Japanese cinema (via @AnOtherMagazine) * “Those who welcome the film version of The Road as eco-propaganda for the masses have missed the point of McCarthy’s literary masterpiece.” * The Ballardian history of middle class panics. * Oprah, Read This, a “collection of stories that each leverage the name-recognition of other writers to impart a meta-layer of interpretation.”
