Short story collections which are presented as novels: they annoy me. I read two over the Christmas period, both of which were good short story collections, one of which was really straining trading standard rules to be presented as a novel, let alon[…]

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Rhonda Anderson
I was w. mom again for new years, and we went for new years eve to the local lds church—I grew up there and mom was a member, and I took some photos, none of them really turned out, but I posted a couple on flickr, ju[…]

RIP Maurice Dodd: creator of The Perishers.[…]

There’s never been another writer anything like Oates, and although she is clearly immensely admired and respected, I don’t think she is as treasured as she should be. She is – no contest – the most prolific serious literary w[…]

Whatever happened to Uncle?: fine article from the Economist on the neglected children’s classic beloved of some Freaky Trigger writers. I think they’re basically right about the books and why they don’t sell – Uncle is a very[…]

Extraordinary late entry from Challenge Business.[…]

Around the time of her death about two years ago, Agnes Martin became less subtle, and started using colours and shapes that in her previous painterly practice would strike as unusual, even shocking. (if you have painted grey lines on beige paper for[…]

And it’s great! Really childish, really fun, scattershot crazyness. He’s obviously a bit of a goth*, but there are a lot worse problems of some other creators i admire.
I buy so few comics any more, but with a little time to kill the othe[…]

Yes, yes – the bad sex award. All very TITter-worthy and purient, and in many ways deserved : (Fustar takes pains to look at the Giles Coren bit). Nevertheless for all this jocularity, it does tend to ignore the fact that describing sex is actu[…]

No, actually, his ghost. Haunting a coffee machine![…]