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…
Author: skullcull
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…
Grant Morrison popped into mine and many other\’s consciousnesses through the vehicle of Zenith, a unique spin on the superhero phenomenon that ran weekly in 2000 AD — it would explore many themes that Morrison would later revisit in The Read more…
As with a lot of the books that line my shelves I came to The Redneck Manifesto by Jim Goad through the recommendation, or rather a loan, of the book from a friend. What\’s your first reaction when you get Read more…