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What a wonderful surprise to see Eric Sykes pop up in Alejandro Amenábar's "The Others"
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www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
November 13, 2025 at 1:24 PM
What a wonderful surprise to see Eric Sykes pop up in Alejandro Amenábar's "The Others"
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Interesting blog post about the British artist John Holmes who in the 1970s created some striking book cover illustrations for publishers such as Ballantine, Paladin and Picador, for authors such as Pynchon, Beckett, Greer and Lovecraft.
paperbackpalette.blogspot.com/2022/10/my-f...
paperbackpalette.blogspot.com/2022/10/my-f...
November 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Interesting blog post about the British artist John Holmes who in the 1970s created some striking book cover illustrations for publishers such as Ballantine, Paladin and Picador, for authors such as Pynchon, Beckett, Greer and Lovecraft.
paperbackpalette.blogspot.com/2022/10/my-f...
paperbackpalette.blogspot.com/2022/10/my-f...
November 9, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Good to see Colin get the recognition he deserves:
"The elder Greenwood has always been Radiohead’s secret weapon..."
"The elder Greenwood has always been Radiohead’s secret weapon..."
November 7, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Good to see Colin get the recognition he deserves:
"The elder Greenwood has always been Radiohead’s secret weapon..."
"The elder Greenwood has always been Radiohead’s secret weapon..."
I love it when my obsessions collide in unexpected ways! For example, I was delighted when I discovered that Stef Gardiner one half of the wonderfully irreverent late night 90s Channel 4 film review show, Vidz, also was Alasdair Gray's last assistant!
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alasdairgrayspace.net/heart/post-s...
November 4, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I love it when my obsessions collide in unexpected ways! For example, I was delighted when I discovered that Stef Gardiner one half of the wonderfully irreverent late night 90s Channel 4 film review show, Vidz, also was Alasdair Gray's last assistant!
alasdairgrayspace.net/heart/post-s...
alasdairgrayspace.net/heart/post-s...
Philip Pullman: “To see this Labour government be so pusillanimous in the face of our enemies — and Trump’s America is an enemy — is awful.”
But what makes him most angry is the “inescapable logic of corporatism”, which puts moneymaking above everything else.
www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
But what makes him most angry is the “inescapable logic of corporatism”, which puts moneymaking above everything else.
www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
November 4, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Philip Pullman: “To see this Labour government be so pusillanimous in the face of our enemies — and Trump’s America is an enemy — is awful.”
But what makes him most angry is the “inescapable logic of corporatism”, which puts moneymaking above everything else.
www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
But what makes him most angry is the “inescapable logic of corporatism”, which puts moneymaking above everything else.
www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
A new exhibition attempts to bring to life the mysterious novelist through works in conversation with her books
observer.co.uk/culture/art/...
observer.co.uk/culture/art/...
November 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM
A new exhibition attempts to bring to life the mysterious novelist through works in conversation with her books
observer.co.uk/culture/art/...
observer.co.uk/culture/art/...
Good to see Jokerman podcast @jokermen.bsky.social being used as a defence against silly Dylan books.
www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fi...
www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fi...
November 1, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Good to see Jokerman podcast @jokermen.bsky.social being used as a defence against silly Dylan books.
www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fi...
www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fi...
Sitaram Raul’s bats in flight
observer.co.uk/culture/phot...
observer.co.uk/culture/phot...
November 1, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Sitaram Raul’s bats in flight
observer.co.uk/culture/phot...
observer.co.uk/culture/phot...
Conservatives penchant for big statues is noted in Pynchon's work first in Vineland with the "Nixon Monument, a hundred - foot colossus... gazing not out to sea but inland" and then, poignantly, at the end of Shadow Ticket, with an echo of Lady Liberty: "Like somebody we knew once a long time ago."
October 22, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Conservatives penchant for big statues is noted in Pynchon's work first in Vineland with the "Nixon Monument, a hundred - foot colossus... gazing not out to sea but inland" and then, poignantly, at the end of Shadow Ticket, with an echo of Lady Liberty: "Like somebody we knew once a long time ago."
Maggie Gyllenhaal: "we have been starved for so long, especially in movies, of a feminine expression. That’s not quite the case any more. Though there’s still many, many more men directing movies.”
www.thetimes.com/magazines/st...
www.thetimes.com/magazines/st...
October 19, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Maggie Gyllenhaal: "we have been starved for so long, especially in movies, of a feminine expression. That’s not quite the case any more. Though there’s still many, many more men directing movies.”
www.thetimes.com/magazines/st...
www.thetimes.com/magazines/st...
Rebecca Ferguson is in the middle of shooting Dune: Part Three, whose script is “phenomenal”, she says. Dune is “one of those universes that come once in a blue moon"
www.thetimes.com/culture/film...
www.thetimes.com/culture/film...
October 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Rebecca Ferguson is in the middle of shooting Dune: Part Three, whose script is “phenomenal”, she says. Dune is “one of those universes that come once in a blue moon"
www.thetimes.com/culture/film...
www.thetimes.com/culture/film...
If it is an alternative draft of the chapter, it certainly is more dynamic and evocative.
October 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
If it is an alternative draft of the chapter, it certainly is more dynamic and evocative.
One Last Chance to See
Katherine Rundell revisits the story behind Douglas Adam's book & Radio 4 series – as told by its co-author Mark Carwardine in a new interview, & Douglas himself, thanks to an archive lecture Douglas gave at the University of California in 2001
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Katherine Rundell revisits the story behind Douglas Adam's book & Radio 4 series – as told by its co-author Mark Carwardine in a new interview, & Douglas himself, thanks to an archive lecture Douglas gave at the University of California in 2001
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
October 11, 2025 at 11:12 AM
One Last Chance to See
Katherine Rundell revisits the story behind Douglas Adam's book & Radio 4 series – as told by its co-author Mark Carwardine in a new interview, & Douglas himself, thanks to an archive lecture Douglas gave at the University of California in 2001
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Katherine Rundell revisits the story behind Douglas Adam's book & Radio 4 series – as told by its co-author Mark Carwardine in a new interview, & Douglas himself, thanks to an archive lecture Douglas gave at the University of California in 2001
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
OK, so I've finished Shadow Kingdom, added it to the Pynchon shelf & have made a somewhat comprehensive music playlist of the novel.
Tom's musical selection is definitely more diverse than the one Penguin published and quite interesting to dive into. Now to wait for the Pynchon wiki to come online
Tom's musical selection is definitely more diverse than the one Penguin published and quite interesting to dive into. Now to wait for the Pynchon wiki to come online
October 6, 2025 at 2:11 PM
OK, so I've finished Shadow Kingdom, added it to the Pynchon shelf & have made a somewhat comprehensive music playlist of the novel.
Tom's musical selection is definitely more diverse than the one Penguin published and quite interesting to dive into. Now to wait for the Pynchon wiki to come online
Tom's musical selection is definitely more diverse than the one Penguin published and quite interesting to dive into. Now to wait for the Pynchon wiki to come online
Here's a good reason why you should support your local independent bookshop!
Can't wait to get lost in Pynchon's Shadow Ticket tonight! 🕵🏻♂️📖🎷💃🏻🧀
Can't wait to get lost in Pynchon's Shadow Ticket tonight! 🕵🏻♂️📖🎷💃🏻🧀
October 2, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Here's a good reason why you should support your local independent bookshop!
Can't wait to get lost in Pynchon's Shadow Ticket tonight! 🕵🏻♂️📖🎷💃🏻🧀
Can't wait to get lost in Pynchon's Shadow Ticket tonight! 🕵🏻♂️📖🎷💃🏻🧀
If you're intrigued to check out the novel that inspired PTA's One Battle After Another - Vineland by Thomas Pynchon - then I whole heartedly recommend the following podcasts, which offer a chapter-by-chapter read along
Slow Learners
pca.st/episode/826e...
Mapping the Zone
pca.st/episode/d5e3...
Slow Learners
pca.st/episode/826e...
Mapping the Zone
pca.st/episode/d5e3...
September 30, 2025 at 7:47 AM
If you're intrigued to check out the novel that inspired PTA's One Battle After Another - Vineland by Thomas Pynchon - then I whole heartedly recommend the following podcasts, which offer a chapter-by-chapter read along
Slow Learners
pca.st/episode/826e...
Mapping the Zone
pca.st/episode/d5e3...
Slow Learners
pca.st/episode/826e...
Mapping the Zone
pca.st/episode/d5e3...
‘Alien: Earth’ Star Lily Newmark Thinks Girls Will Relate To Nibs’s Growl: “There Something Feral About Young Girls”
decider.com/2025/09/17/a...
decider.com/2025/09/17/a...
September 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
‘Alien: Earth’ Star Lily Newmark Thinks Girls Will Relate To Nibs’s Growl: “There Something Feral About Young Girls”
decider.com/2025/09/17/a...
decider.com/2025/09/17/a...
apropos of nothing...
“During a recitation by their poet master Grunthos the Flatulent ...his own major intestine, in a desperate attempt to save humanity, leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
“During a recitation by their poet master Grunthos the Flatulent ...his own major intestine, in a desperate attempt to save humanity, leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
September 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
apropos of nothing...
“During a recitation by their poet master Grunthos the Flatulent ...his own major intestine, in a desperate attempt to save humanity, leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
“During a recitation by their poet master Grunthos the Flatulent ...his own major intestine, in a desperate attempt to save humanity, leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Britain’s go-to screenwriter Steven Knight talks about his new ‘Succession with stout’ drama House of Guinness — and why he’s not scared of writer’s block stopping his 007 screenplay
www.thetimes.com/magazines/cu...
www.thetimes.com/magazines/cu...
September 20, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Britain’s go-to screenwriter Steven Knight talks about his new ‘Succession with stout’ drama House of Guinness — and why he’s not scared of writer’s block stopping his 007 screenplay
www.thetimes.com/magazines/cu...
www.thetimes.com/magazines/cu...
David Bowie remembered by Kate Moss — the friend he called ‘Smasher’
“It fit me like a glove — it was a very surreal experience,” Moss says.
Moss on the Kansai Yamamoto playsuit that she picked to wear from Bowie's archive at the Brit awards in 2014.
www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-r...
“It fit me like a glove — it was a very surreal experience,” Moss says.
Moss on the Kansai Yamamoto playsuit that she picked to wear from Bowie's archive at the Brit awards in 2014.
www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-r...
September 19, 2025 at 11:11 AM
David Bowie remembered by Kate Moss — the friend he called ‘Smasher’
“It fit me like a glove — it was a very surreal experience,” Moss says.
Moss on the Kansai Yamamoto playsuit that she picked to wear from Bowie's archive at the Brit awards in 2014.
www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-r...
“It fit me like a glove — it was a very surreal experience,” Moss says.
Moss on the Kansai Yamamoto playsuit that she picked to wear from Bowie's archive at the Brit awards in 2014.
www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-r...
Gaudí: God’s architect
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www.bbc.com/audio/play/p...
September 16, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Gaudí: God’s architect
www.bbc.com/audio/play/p...
www.bbc.com/audio/play/p...
Pretty neat little online haul from independent publishers this week: a limited edition paperback of Alan Sharp's novelization of Night Moves from Plumeria; and The Little Review, a small journal edited by Tristram Fane-Saunders.
plumeriapics.co.uk/shop/ols/pro...
www.thelittlereview.co.uk/about
plumeriapics.co.uk/shop/ols/pro...
www.thelittlereview.co.uk/about
August 30, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Pretty neat little online haul from independent publishers this week: a limited edition paperback of Alan Sharp's novelization of Night Moves from Plumeria; and The Little Review, a small journal edited by Tristram Fane-Saunders.
plumeriapics.co.uk/shop/ols/pro...
www.thelittlereview.co.uk/about
plumeriapics.co.uk/shop/ols/pro...
www.thelittlereview.co.uk/about
As a proud Welshman, I'm gratified to see that Alien Earth has ditched the wimpy Xenomorph in favour of the "perfect organism", whose "structural perfection is matched only by its hostility. ...A survivor, unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality."
August 28, 2025 at 6:57 AM
As a proud Welshman, I'm gratified to see that Alien Earth has ditched the wimpy Xenomorph in favour of the "perfect organism", whose "structural perfection is matched only by its hostility. ...A survivor, unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality."
If you want to understand the present moment in England, read J. G. Ballard's "Kingdom Come."
(this is not an endorsement, of this sorry state of affairs)
(this is not an endorsement, of this sorry state of affairs)
August 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
If you want to understand the present moment in England, read J. G. Ballard's "Kingdom Come."
(this is not an endorsement, of this sorry state of affairs)
(this is not an endorsement, of this sorry state of affairs)