If you like PKD, Burroughs, or Vonnegut then you should be reading Séb Doubinsky
At the end of March, the writer Séb Doubinsky should have been traveling across America giving readings from his latest novel The Invisible. Picture him…
Books
It’s After the End of the World: The Afrofuturist Dystopia of Gerald Jenkins
Afrofuturism–the term was coined by Mark Dery in a 1993 essay titled “Black to the Future” where he mused about Black science-fiction and art–is a…
That Time They Opened Lord Byron’s Coffin and Found He had a Humongous Schlong
At two o’clock on June 15th, 1938, a truck pulled-up outside the church hall at St. Mary Magdalene, Hucknall Torkard, England. The vehicle was packed…
Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’ was his sly way of calling attention to the poor of Victorian England
So, this is Christmas and…no matter what you’ve done, may I wish you all the very best Compliments of the Season, Happy Holidays and a…
Down the Rabbit Hole: Watch Jonathan Miller’s Swinging Sixties ‘Alice in Wonderland’
Jonathan Miller first considered the possibility of making a film of Lewis Carroll‘s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland during a party in the early 1960s. Miller…
Throbbing Gristle live, 2009: An excerpt from Graham Duff’s ‘Foreground Music: A Life in 15 Gigs’
In Graham Duff’s charming new memoir, Foreground Music: A Life in 15 Gigs, the actor-writer looks back on some of his favorite concerts and discusses…
William S. Burroughs’ ‘Blade Runner: A Movie’
1879: Doctor Benway is addressing a crowd of cowboys in the arid deserts of Nevada. ‘”Now, boys, lissen-up, I have two things for sale today.…
Roddy McDowall reads two horror stories by H. P. Lovecraft
Of an October evening, as I prep the house for All Hallow’s Eve–water the pumpkin patch and marinade the eyes of newts–I take great comfort…
Consume this: ‘American Advertising Cookbooks’ is delicious AF
Did you know that the banana was a berry? Yep. Me neither. I also had zero clue that the US was gifted the concept of…
The Family Acid takes a psychedelic look at the Golden State in ‘California’
After the Grammy Award-winning success of their exquisite Voyager Golden Record: 40th Anniversary Edition box set Ozma Records, the imprint founded by bOING bOING’s David…