Linder Sterling: “Apparently Elvis’s big sexual fantasy was to see pubic hair peeking out from a woman’s knickers”. * Hari Kunzru reviews Jonathan Franzen‘s Freedom. * 13 books nobody’s read? * The late Claude Chabrol‘s career in 10 videos. * A documentary on Ivor Cutler. * Rush hour, Waterloo Station, 1970. * Keith Pattison‘s pictures of the miners’ strike. * An interview with Michel Houellebecq. * The controversial picture of Rimbaud (or not, as the case may be). * Donald Brown on David Shields‘ Reality Hunger (via). * The Agatha Christie Collection. * Tudor pinhole camera. * Pinhole camera on turntable. * Hipstamatic for the people. * Twitter and the book trade. * Novelists who debuted after 40. * French in ‘not greatest lovers’ shock! * Terry Eagleton on virtue. * On Stieg Larsson. * The Rumpus branches out into book publishing. * Orderly queues. * David Lynch exhibition. * Utopia London. * Gabriel Josipovici‘s Only Joking (via). * What ever happened to reading properly? More here. And here. And here. * Lucian Freud. * Raymond Chandler‘s “The Simple of Art of Murder” (1950). * An interview with Joshua Cohen. * The rise of Gemma Arterton. * Alfred Jarry‘s time machine. * Roland Barthes‘s handwriting. * Michael Billington on his love of smut. * Product placement in 19th century British novels. * CBGB New Year’s Eve party, 1975. * Bernard Shaw, the secret snapper. * The Iraq War: A Wikipedia History. * Early David Bowie. * Shooting On the Road. * An interview with Mark Stewart (The Pop Group). * Nabokov‘s short stories. * The happiness myth.
