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Category Archives: Books
Faulks on fiction
I caught the penultimate episode of this excellent series, yesterday evening, on BBC2. It’s a treat for book geeks like me that never studied literature past GCSE stages. Label on the tin: Best-selling author Sebastian Faulks presents a major four part series on the brilliance of the British novel and its characters. Check it out [...]
Foer on factory farming
I just finished reading Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer. It’s crammed with facts and arguments about why we should eradicate or minimise meat from our diets. Foer’s extensive research and fact-based arguments primarily concern the — unquestionably diabolical — ramifications of factory farming in the US and the UK. Climate change, pollution, global famine [...]
Kafka on animals
Just started reading Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer.
Dot Kom
I read a good article in the Guardian Review this morning. Laura Miller, a literary journalist, documents how mainstream novelists are finally acknowledging the internet, as a life changing utility, instead of continuously trying to write timeless masterpieces, rooted in historic settings. Miller elaborates on how this behaviour, from old school types, is not new, [...]
I feel like this sometimes
Of course I did. All of them. Twice. via “lonely sandwich”.
Staccato
I like James Elroy—even though he’s a slight racist. Why? Well, shortly after putting down LA Confidential, I read about his roller coster life in an issue of Esquire. He’s definitely from the school of hard-knocks, but he got through it by committing to his writing. Sure, he’s bonkers and has a weird, sexual infatuation [...]
Fry-up
Stephen Fry and badboy are the unlikeliest words to co-exist in the same sentence. However, his biography, an open sash window into a public school boy’s past, divulges unquestionably unexpected stories. Jail, material obsessions and insecurities are all there. Admittedly, I’ve never paid any notable attention to Stephen Fry. He was always that guy from [...]
Immersive images
Roger Ballen talks about photobooks from Jim Casper on Vimeo. Roger Ballen is old-school and in this video he makes some great points about the role books play in learning. I agree with him because paper adds a certain depth to photos that just cannot be recreated on the screen. I’m greedily building a beautiful [...]
Masks and Muscles
I just put down the Watchmen; a truly ace book! To be honest I’ve never really been a comic book kinda guy, but after I saw the movie I just had to read the book. The book evolves into several layers of complexity; each character has their background carefully illustrated as the plot thickens. I [...]
The Americans by Robert Frank