ART LITERATURE.

Patrick Leigh Fermor, And Why He Should Be Your Hero.

‘A Time Of Gifts’ by Patrick Leigh Fermor. I had never heard of this guy, or this book. I wasn’t even going to take it, but for some reason I grabbed it at the last second. It blew my fucking mind.

5 Reasons to (re)Read Portnoy’s Complaint

Recently the American writer Philip Roth announced he was quitting literature. We look back over his neurotic, sacrilegious and puerile 1969 novel, Portnoy’s Complaint.

Holiday Reading: Katie Price – Crystal

I had to read a Katie Price (Jordan) ‘novel’ on holiday. It was one of the worst experiences of my life #middleclassproblems

What We Talk About When We Talk About Writing About Talking About Writing.

A ‘failed’ writer turns to Google to in an attempt to collaborate with translation software.

An interview with 5HIT RAP.

Despite dangling off the tip of the West Country, Falmouth has got itself quite a scene going on. Jackson Wise and Ed Tuckwell are two men trying to cram it all amongst the pages of a pocket-sized life guide. We crashed their barbershop-come publishing studio late one Sunday evening to talk Muji and Mucklow.

Clinic Presents: Romance w/ Tubelord

Poetry/Arts collective, Clinic are hosting their last event at the Amersham Arms on Friday, launching a new pamphlet and Tubelord are playing live.

Don’t get caught… (or A Political Awakening Through Literature)

Ageing folky popster, Crouch End resident and sometime actor, Bob Dylan once said “to live outside the law you must be honest” or somesuch – he then strummed at a passing electric guitar and thousands of his fans exploded.

Five Dials ~ Pedagogic Poems for Parents

Five Dials is a free PDF literary magazine and a baby brother to a publisher called Hamish Hamilton (formerly an independent, now an imprint of the mighty behemoth known as Penguin Books). Hamish Hamilton have published everyone from Albert Camus to Joe Dunthorne (he wrote Submarine which you probably saw filmed by Richard Ayoade). Five Dials have published Leonard Cohen, James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem…

The Bvlgari

It was announced this morning that Louis Vuitton had unveiled a plan to takeover Italian Jewleller Bvlgari for some £3bn. It seems that luxury brands aren’t as damaged by the economic downturn as the rest of us, due in part to huge economic growth in China (eat that Joseph McCarthey).

Day #4: Nadia Khomami – A Postscript

You must be wondering what on earth it is that I am here for. But before I embark on chronicling all of my current contemplations, let me begin by setting the sought out scene and subject of my present thinking for you.