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Sunday, June 17th, 2012
This week: Gustave Doré, some 19th Century Photoshopping, Bloomsday and the final farewell to Hiram Cronk.
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Tags: alastair campbell, armando iannucci, ashkan honarvar, bookshop wedding, bookshops, carnegie award, cervantes, don quixote, gustave dore, hiram cronk, James Joyce, Nothing Doing, patrick ness, photoshop, photoshopping, randolf pfaff, salt publishing, sylvia plath, this week's reading, ulysses, war faces, Willie Smith
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Sunday, June 10th, 2012
This week: sword fighting manuals, London markets, wire sculptures, poetry from Robert Herbert and more.
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Tags: bronte, charlotte bronte, david oliveira, f. scott fitzgerald, god save the queen, john lydon, Jubilee, knives forks & spoons press, kubrick, london markets, manual of sword fighting, manuel de combat à l’épée, market, Nothing Doing, pangs & intermittences, ray bradbury, robert herbert, sculpture, stanley kubrick, the sex pistols, this week's reading, Willie Smith
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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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Tags: Dorothea Tanning, James Joyce, Jubilee, Massimo Bartolini, Ryan Quinn Flanagan, salvador dali, The Great Gastby, this week's reading, thomas edison, virginia woolf, Walt Disney
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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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Tags: celine Voyage au bout de la nuit, hamsun hunger, paul kavanagh, Salope Foutre, Sucer Mon Robinet
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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.
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Tags: albert einstein, alejandro jodorowsky, cannes, einstein, ezra pound, holy motors, janda zdenek, japan, leos carax, mike ingram, over-rated books, richard brautigan, rise of the dolls, romana, self-publishing, tattoos, the public, this week's reading
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Sunday, May 20th, 2012
This week: Marcel Proust playing air guitar, Harvey Pekar, Patti Smith’s poetry, and a defence of Nikola Tesla.
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Tags: bohumil hrabal, bookshops, carlos fuentes, chomu, chomu press, gary snyder, Harvey Pekar, iain sinclair, marcel duchamp, marcel proust, marie curie, moby dick, nikola tesla, patti sith, patti smith poetry, susan sontag, sylvia plath, tesla, this week's reading, village voice
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Sunday, May 6th, 2012
This week: Ion Barladeanu, Rabelais’ cyclops, book carvings and more.
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Tags: adam nathaniel yauch, beastie boys, book art, book carvings, brian dettmer, chris burden, chris burden shoot, edward c. zacharewicz, erotic art, erotica, françois rabelais, gargantua and pantagruel, Ion Barladeanu, iPad, kindle, nightjar press, pablo picasso, picasso, rabelais, Robert Crumb, t.s. eliot, the white review, this week's reading, virginia woolf, william s. burroughs
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Sunday, April 29th, 2012
This week: Robert Crumb, Ezra Pound, orgies in space and more. (more…)
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Tags: ambit, amos vogel, crumb, ezra pound, levon helm, music from big pink, outerspace sex orgy, postage stamps, Robert Crumb, space orgies, stamps, the band, the confessions of robert crumb, this week's reading, usps, write or die, Zdzisław Beksiński
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Thursday, April 12th, 2012
I’ve been reading about disgruntled publishers pulling out of dealing with Amazon for months now. Upset over the percentage that Amazon is demanding. It’s head-scratching stuff.
Let’s get this out the way first: Amazon is a giant in the world of e-commerce. No, let me rephrase that, Amazon is the giant. The majority of online buyers that I know go to Amazon. They have no need for Joe Bloggs Publishing, no need to care. All Amazon wants is to continue making massive profits. Which is fair enough. For anyone who has worked in the corporate world, this comes as no surprise. (more…)
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Tags: amazon, Amazon and independent publishers, Amazon independent publishers, Amazon publishers, independent publishers, small press Amazon
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Sunday, April 8th, 2012
This week: Austin Osman Spare, edible and smokable books, author portraits from Carl Kohler and more.
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Tags: austin osman spare, blood, blood painting, carl kohler, conium review, corrine de winter, David Foster Wallace, don delillo, doris lessing, edible books, fuck you, japan, japan tsunami, jordan eagles, painting, revolution house, robert pirosh, shoulda known better, smokable books, snoop dogg, the golden notebook, the golden notebook turns 50, this week's reading
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