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This Week’s Reading, 15.7.12

Sunday, July 15th, 2012

Assange interviews Chomsky, a 12-year-old interviews his 32-year-old self, Patti Smith on Virginia Woolf and more.

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This Week’s Reading, 01.7.12

Sunday, July 1st, 2012

Alan Moore and his new short films, the importance of The Reader Organisation, an interview with Kurt Vonnegut and more.

Detail from Richard Dadd's 'Fairy-Feller's Master-Stroke'

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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Century: 2009 & The Vorrh B. Catling

Saturday, June 23rd, 2012

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This Week’s Reading, 17.6.12

Sunday, June 17th, 2012

This week: Gustave Doré, some 19th Century Photoshopping, Bloomsday and the final farewell to Hiram Cronk.

Detail from a Gustave Doré illustration in a French edition of Don Quixote.

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This Week’s Reading, 10.6.12

Sunday, June 10th, 2012

This week: sword fighting manuals, London markets, wire sculptures, poetry from Robert Herbert and more.

David Oliveira's wire sculptures

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This Week’s Reading, 3.6.12

Sunday, June 3rd, 2012

Jubilee writers, some terrifying children’s books, poetry by Ryan Quinn Flanagan, The Great Gatsby trailer and much more…

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Salope Foutre: Sucer Mon Robinet

Wednesday, May 30th, 2012

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured and little to be enjoyed.[1]

Most people would concur, but not Salope Foutre. Finding him changed my life, like listening to Miles, Monk, and Mingus. I could find no English translation of Salope Foutre’s only book and so I had to go to Paris. I found an old dogeared copy by the Seine River. It was very expensive, as you can imagine. Paris is so expensive. (more…)

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This Week’s Reading, 27.5.12

Sunday, May 27th, 2012

This week: The future according to ’70s Japan, Einstein on praying, 10 over-rated books, and Leos Carax isn’t a people person.

Janda Zdenek's 'Romana'

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This Week’s Reading, 20.5.12

Sunday, May 20th, 2012

This week: Marcel Proust playing air guitar, Harvey Pekar, Patti Smith’s poetry, and a defence of Nikola Tesla.

Das Fest des großen Wurmes

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Good Old British Bloggers

Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

blog

Spelled [blawg, blog] noun, verb, blogged, blog·ging.

Noun. Weblog. Example: The blogger blogged about his books.

Let us remember the days when our opinions were wasted on our peers and our poetry was destined never to see the light of day; a pencil scrawl in a diary. The days when we transported music on a cassette that held only fourteen tracks and waited for hours outside Woolies for a friend to turn up, because we had no means of sending a message asking ‘WHR R U? IM COLD N ALONE. LOL.’ Now look at us, typing our every incidental thought and contemplation onto a web log, for the world to peruse. (more…)

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