Welcome to the Hypertext Edition of ‘The Brain of Katherine Mansfield’ …

AUSTIN SPARE, introduced by diabolist and bon vivant Alan Moore …          

JEREMY DELLER’S ‘England – Spirit of Albion’ at the Venice Biennale…

07/12/12 – ‘A PRINTING PRESS works by laying ink onto a substrate like paper or cloth…

How The Book of Prefaces Got Published

I was gonna write this story about how Alisdair Gray got a deal with a Bloomsbury agent and his local pub owner to co-finance one of his books, but I cant find it anyway so it might be lies. ‘Just at the moment I think Alasdair Gray is going to finish his […]

Zona, Geoff Dyer + Auckland Writers&Readers 2012

  ‘The sparky, sarky love-child of Alan Bennett and David Foster Wallace, Dyer devotes a book to Tarkovsky’s moodily enigmatic movie Stalker – and much else. Scene by scene, Dyer stalks the film, and its mysterious loveliness stalks him. Meanwhile, often in downpage footnotes, snatches of memoir splice the art […]

Homemade Europe: More DIY culture from Fuel Publishing

    ‘A new book celebrates the resourcefulness of people who innovate everyday objects – from the prisoner who carved her own dildo to the man who solved toothpaste squeezing forever. The objects we buy are supposed to tell us something about who we are. But they don’t tell us […]