I think Alexander Trocchi came to me via John Fante whose Ask The Dust had just been reprinted by Rebel Inc. They had the moody black and white covers and were finally getting the treatment that they deserved after a Read more…
Author: skullcull
In a kind of companion posting alongside Peter Blegvad\’s Leviathan comes Steven Appleby\’s Small Birds Singing. I used to clip both of them out fo the magazines and collect them avidly. Small Birds Singing also used absurdism to explore humanity Read more…
All those people who queue up to get their copies of the Sunday broadsheets so that they look like they might have half a brain in their heads, or to make some stab at a claim for culture may be Read more…
You read Herbert Huncke and there is something so genuine and unforced about him and his writing, even when he is playing with some idea that twists the text out of a straight shape. If I had to state a Read more…
I know it\’s probably not the best thing to be floating theories around before something is notionally out of the gates but there is enough of intrigue already in the Freakangels to get the old noggin working. I was wondering Read more…
I think this is the only book of John Fowles that I ever finished, and I really enjoyed it — it is one of those books which draws you in and becomes, in the process, something that shapes some part Read more…
Thank you Manic Street Preachers for introducing me to the work of Jenny Saville. Saville\’s work adorned the cover of the Manic\’s masterpiece — The Holy Bible and it was the perfect compliment to the music that was contained within Read more…
http://www.foundmagazine.com the whole idea of finding something and re-contextualising so that it becomes something other than it was fascinates me. i have to admit at one point that i might have seen it all as cheating but that has changed. Read more…
Of all the fake Holocaust memoirs that have been uncovered this one struck me as the weirdest. The woman, Misha Defonseca, who has since revealed herself to be Monique De Wael, supposedly the daughter of Belgian resistance fighters, claimed to Read more…
I studied both the book and the film as part of a course that was looking at how books were converted into film. I have to admit that I had previously found Virginia Woolf to be quite a difficult Read more…