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Barry Adamson: Up Above the City, Down Beneath the Stars
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Cats and the meaning of life: John Gray on ‘Feline Philosophy’
‘Feline Philosophy,’ out November 24 in US and Canada “Epidemiology and microbiology are better guides to our future than any of our hopes or plans,”…
Meet Wendy Erskine: An Exclusive Interview with Your New Favorite Writer
There are too many writers in the world. Too many bad writers. I’ll include myself in that group. No, not false modesty, just how it…
When William S. Burroughs met Francis Bacon: Uncut
When William Burroughs met Francis Bacon a lot of tea was drunk, cigarettes smoked, a few secrets shared but very little was revealed about the…
The stop-motion cartoon of William S. Burroughs’ ‘Ah Pook Is Here’
The 1979 collection ‘Ah Pook Is Here and Other Texts’ William S. Burroughs envisaged Ah Pook Is Here, an extension of the comix serial The…
The Boston Typewriter Orchestra is better than Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Somewhere Tom Hanks is weeping. For when the Boston Typewriter Orchestra performs, the primary musical technique consists of beating holy hell out of a bunch…
This Valentine’s Day, tell them you hate them with ‘The Hate Poems’
John Tottenham In Los Angeles, where it is many people’s full-time profession to be cheerful and healthy, John Tottenham’s scowl hits you in the eye…