Pinboard: bookmarks for stml tagged 'literature'

"The good ship Literary Fiction has run aground and the survivors are frantically paddling toward the islands of genre. Okay, maybe that’s a little dramatic, but there does seem to be a definite trend of literary/mainstream writers turning to romance, thrillers, fantasy, mystery, and YA."

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september 2011 by stml

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The Book Collection That Devoured My Life - WSJ.com

"But after living in smallish apartments for decades I just spent seven years in a house with a full-size attic, and everything went to hell. Books entered my house under cover of night, from the four winds, smuggled in by woodland creatures, and then they never left. Books collected on every surface; I believe that somehow they managed to breed." Yes, this.

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september 2011 by stml

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Text Camp 2011 - Literature - Okf- Eventbrite

"Text Camp 2011 hopes to bring together many different people, all interested in the relationship between digital technologies and literature, with a strong focus on the creation of open knowledge, as defined by our hosts, the Open Knowledge Foundation."

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august 2011 by stml

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How Oscar Wilde Painted Over “Dorian Gray” : The New Yorker
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august 2011 by stml

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The Mechanic Muse - The Jargon of the Novel, Computed - NYTimes.com
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august 2011 by stml

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Robin D. Laws: Korad

Crowdsourcing world-building.

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july 2011 by stml

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Dictionary of the Khazars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"The book comes in two different editions, one "Male" and one "Female", which differ in only a critical passage in a single paragraph."

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july 2011 by stml

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No One Cares About Your Reading | The New York Observer

"Is it a coincidence that this is how parents get their children to go to sleep? It is a dark fate, indeed, the reading that drags on and on, where the only person who has lost interest more than the audience is the author, the room lost in a purgatory of pauses for laughter, met by awkward silences." Yeah.

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july 2011 by stml

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Your English Is Showing by Tim Parks | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books

Was it possible, I asked myself, that there was now a skeleton lingua franca beneath the flesh of these vernaculars, and that it was basically an English skeleton?

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june 2011 by stml

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Here Be Cartographers: Reading the Fantasy Map | Nick's Café Canadien
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june 2011 by stml

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The Millions : The Stockholm Syndrome Theory of Long Novels

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june 2011 by stml

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The White Review

New print periodical with a beautiful and well-integrated (if strangely familiar) website. Tom McCarthy, Andre Schiffrin, Brion Gysin, oh my.

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march 2011 by stml

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The Crime Dossiers of Dennis Wheatley

"The four crime dossiers devised by Dennis Wheatley and J.G. Links in the 1930s were a completely original novelty and, at least initially, immensely popular both in Britain and around the world... What makes the crime dossiers so unique was that they presented the reader with all the evidence that an investigating team of detectives might gather and then ask him to solve the crime. To this end, a variety of physical clues and reports were housed together in a cardboard folder, which if worked through methodically as any detective might, would yield the correct solution to the problem. Having used deduction to arrive at a prime suspect, the reader could then check his findings with the actual solution to the mystery that was concealed within a sealed section towards the rear of the folder."

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february 2011 by stml

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Call for Submissions — BODIES OF WORK
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february 2011 by stml

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Goodbye from Pen Pusher Magazine

Very sad to see an excellent small literary magazine fold. Would have liked to see it continue online; in their own words, PP has "an ill-advised lack of interest in the digital world". Shame.

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february 2011 by stml

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Book Review: Yarn | Fandomania

Fashionpunk!

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january 2011 by stml

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Everyone is Gay... and advice on dealing with it.

I love Danielle and Kristin's writing style #hashtagsinprose #ftw

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january 2011 by stml

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False document - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Good list

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january 2011 by stml

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How novels came to terms with the internet | Books | The Guardian

"The internet has altered our lives in ways television never did or could, but mainstream literary novelists – by which I mean writers who specialise in realistic, character-based narratives – have mostly shied away from writing about this, perhaps hoping that, like TV, it could be safely ignored. They've ceded the field to authors of speculative fiction, such as William Gibson and Cory Doctorow, whose hacker and brand-ninja characters exist primarily to explain or propound ideas about bleeding-edge technology, or thriller writers who concoct ingenious but outlandish tales about the potential nightmares lurking in same." Oh hai NR.

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january 2011 by stml

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Obituary: Lord Horder - People, News - The Independent

From Rupert S: "This is the guy I was talking about last night – Mervyn, Lord Horder. A real eccentric. The reference to sending obscene material through the post isn’t quite as ridiculous as it sounds – he was a “physique” photographer under the name Larry Knight. If I had time/resources I’d love to find out more about him, he’s a wonderful character. Lived in a very posh mews flat in St John’s Wood done out in cream/white art-deco style, where he entertained his boys. Fabulous."

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january 2011 by stml

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The London Magazine

England's oldest literary magazine has a new website.

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january 2011 by stml

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Sublimation (phase transition) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

There is a metaphor for everything.

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january 2011 by stml

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Visual Editions

Beautiful, beautifully complex physical books.

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november 2010 by stml

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The hard edge of empire - Charlie's Diary

"A revisionist mundane SF steampunk epic — mundane SF is the socialist realist movement within our tired post-revolutionary genre — would reflect the travails of the colonial peasants forced to labour under the guns of the white Europeans' Zeppelins, in a tropical paradise where severed human hands are currency and even suicide doesn't bring release from bondage."

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november 2010 by stml

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Dieselpunks - Dieselpunk + Steampunk Culture

"Dieselpunk is a subculture and a genre of art blending the aesthetics of the 1920s through the early 1950s with today. To us, the "diesel era" was a time colored by Art Deco, pulp heroes, swing music, and noir gum shoes. Our goal is to create something unexpected and new by merging the zeitgeist of the past with today's technology and attitude."

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november 2010 by stml

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P. Lal | Obituary | The Economist

"English in India, he believed, had become a new language, with its own worth and its own pride. It did not have to parade in a Western suit, just as he refused to, getting barred from the Calcutta Club for wearing pajamapanjabi as usual." Great stuff, great life. Thanks, George.

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november 2010 by stml

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Ptak Science Books: Footnotes in the Future--Swift, Lull, Borges and the End of Writing

"In the future, when everything that can be written has been written and everything spoken has already been spoken, perhaps the first footnote in the history of already-done things will be to Jonathan Swift. "

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october 2010 by stml

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Walter Benjamin’s Aura: Open Bookmarks and the future eBook | booktwo.org

Talked about the life of the book and social reading at #unboundbook. More here: and at

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october 2010 by stml

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LRB · Frank Kermode

"Frank Kermode, who died on 17 August at the age of 90, was the author of many books, including Romantic Image (1957), The Sense of an Ending (1967) and Shakespeare’s Language (2000). He was the Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London and the King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge University. He inspired the founding of the London Review in 1979, and wrote more than 200 pieces for the paper."

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august 2010 by stml

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Technology and the novel, from Blake to Ballard | Books | The Guardian

Old friend of Booktwo and Bookkake, Tom McCarthy, has just been nominated for the Booker. Here he is on technology in literature.

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july 2010 by stml

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Borges Center - The "Fecal Dialectic": Homosexual Panic and the Origin of Writing in Borges - The University of Pittsburgh

"The frequent presence of an Other, almost always male, almost always locked in some sort of phallic combat with the protagonist, suggests that the "fecal dialectic" is "fecal" only because it involves (phantasmatic) anal penetration. The fecal "production" that is writing (for Borges, in this account) is the result of male-male impregnation, an impossibility for human biology but certainly not for the human imagination. And the phobic site of writing is the rectum."

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july 2010 by stml

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Surplus Matter : The Remix the Novel Has Been Crying Out For

The Sunday Times on Tom McCarthy. Good stuff on dullness of current literature / art, curation etc. (Also, sidenote: fan sites excerpting / copying worthwhile articles from paywalled content.)

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july 2010 by stml

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Books do furnish a life - Roger Ebert's Journal

You'll like this. (Thanks, Alex.)

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june 2010 by stml

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stevenberlinjohnson.com: The Glass Box And The Commonplace Book

"When text is free to flow and combine, new forms of value are created, and the overall productivity of the system increases. But of course, when text is free, value is sometimes subtracted for the publishers who used to charge for that text." An excellent long lecture: go read.

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april 2010 by stml

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BBC iPlayer - The Lost Libraries of Timbuktu

"Aminatta Forna tells the story of legendary Timbuktu and its long hidden legacy of hundreds of thousands of ancient manuscripts. With its university founded around the same time as Oxford, Timbuktu is proof that the reading and writing of books have long been as important to Africans as to Europeans."

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april 2010 by stml

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The man who was Penguin - Features, Books - The Independent

'Mervyn Griffith-Jones, asked how he decided whether or not to prosecute, replied: "I put my feet up on the desk and start reading. If I get an erection, we prosecute."'

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april 2010 by stml

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LSE Space for Thought Literary Festival 2010

Missed this, but podcasts are available.

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april 2010 by stml

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CultureLab: Jon Adams: The robots' book club

"How does a computer program read a novel? Can literary criticism ever be considered a science?"

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april 2010 by stml

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Roger Casement versus the British Empire Roy Foster TLS
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march 2010 by stml

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3:AM Magazine » The Minotaur & the Maze: A Cultural History of Night #1
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february 2010 by stml

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coverspy

NYC publishers sneaking a look at what people are reading on the subway. For a while I've wanted to install barcode readers on the tube, so London commuters can swipe their books alongside their oyster cards. This is probably more achievable.

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february 2010 by stml

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3:AM Magazine » 3:AM Cult Hero: Patrick Hamilton

Because, because, because. (And because I should link to 3:AM more often.)

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january 2010 by stml

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Burroughs : Peter Ross
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january 2010 by stml

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Ooligan Press

One of a crop of new student-run publishers emerging from University Publishing programmes - in this case, in Portland.

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january 2010 by stml

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Mattins | A Daily Reading
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december 2009 by stml

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The Unofficial Thomas Pynchon Guide to Los Angeles
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august 2009 by stml

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Ern Malley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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july 2009 by stml

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The Book Seer
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june 2009 by stml

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The Invisible Library
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june 2009 by stml

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Troubles novel written on mobile phone | Books | The Observer
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june 2009 by stml

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Throbbing with excitement

Indian English fiction has never looked so sexy

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may 2009 by stml

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Aarne-Thompson classification system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Aarne-Thompson classification system is a system for classifying folktales.

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may 2009 by stml

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Jack and the Beanstalk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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may 2009 by stml

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Top 20 Gayest Video Game Characters - Honorable Mentions And Ones We Missed #4 - GayGamer.net

When you realise, for real, that games are making as big a cultural impact, as great a contribution to our shared narrative, as literature.

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april 2009 by stml

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Books, Interview, Charlotte Roche, Wetlands, Nina Power, German | Salon Books
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april 2009 by stml

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Algernon Charles Swinburne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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april 2009 by stml

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Feedbooks: Food for the mind

Just a reminder that this service is still here, and it's amazing. My Sony Reader is a bit rubbish, but once I get stuck into a book (or an ms) all the interface quibbles just melt away. Possibly the best way of checking out a few authors' works before you buy the whole set (as I tend to do).

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april 2009 by stml

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Frontline Books: Drew Blog

“There’s not enough profit in it. The parent company can buy dildos for 50p and sell them for £15. Books are expensive to do. They’ve decided to stop publishing.”

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march 2009 by stml

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Gay History, Gay Celebrities, Gay Icons - Rainer Firbank - Circa - Club for Gay Professional Men
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march 2009 by stml

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Featherproof Remixes: A Contest!

Publishing remixes of forthcoming titles. A joyous experiment.

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march 2009 by stml

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Bombay-Dost : Message: Indian Gay Literature
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february 2009 by stml

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Boycott Dubai: Literature, Censorship and Homophobia in the Gulf — Bookkake

Very concerned about reports of censorship at the Dubai Literary Festival, and organising information and contact details of attendees to encourage a boycott.

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february 2009 by stml

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Hamish Hamilton: Five Dials

New issue out now. I think this is a great venture, but I'm irritated by the deliberately anti-internet stance ("best downloaded, printed out and enjoyed (we hope) away from the computer") of what should be a good example of web marketing.

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february 2009 by stml

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Novelist Charlotte Roche talks to Decca Aitkenhead about her sexually frank debut, Wetlands | Books | The Guardian
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january 2009 by stml

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A Kindle trick changes the reading experience - Good Experience

Using the Kindle's search to find out just how original an author is. "The question is, will these digital advances force novelists to change their writing style?" (Thanks, Matt)

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january 2009 by stml

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BBC - Radio Labs - In Search of Cultural Identifiers

"If I tell someone that I'm reading Crash they generally don't care if I'm reading this version or this version or this version. What's interesting isn't the product but the cultural artifact. It's the same story with programmes. Radio 7's David Copperfield isn't a dramatisation of this or this or this, it's a dramatisation of this - the abstract cultural artifact or work." Ta, George.

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january 2009 by stml

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Does the credit crunch have a silver lining for literature?

Like a lot of the responses here. Particularly Geoff Dyer's and Gordon Burn's. Depressed by Pete Ayrton's (if I've understood it correctly).

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january 2009 by stml

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