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links for 2010-03-02

In Disobedient Rooms: On J.G. Ballard China Mieville on Ballard – at some length, in The Nation. (tags: jg-ballard china-mieville literature criticism)

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links for 2010-01-28: Lacan at the Scene

Hop Scotch: CSI: photography (Vue Weekly) "what if Jacques Lacan—the brilliant and eccentric Parisian psychoanalyst—had left his home in the early 1950s in order to travel to England and work as a police detective? How might he have applied his … more…

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links for 2010-01-08: Two Gentlemen of Lebowski

Two Gentlemen of Lebowski The Big Lebowski retold in Shakespearean English, beautifully done. (tags: Shakespeare Lebowski humour film literature)

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links for 2009-12-04: Kubrick on adaptation

The Kubrick Site: Kubrick on 'Words and Movies' from Sight & Sound, 1960-61 (tags: kubrick film writing literature)

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links for 2009-11-16: collected Lovecraft

Writings of H. P. Lovecraft Not entirely complete, actually, but pretty close… (tags: books literature cthulhu fiction lovecraft)

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JG Ballard, 1930-2009

J.G. Ballard My plan for 31st August, 1997 was this: I would finish up an interview transcript I’d been working on, and in the afternoon, I would travel in from Harrow to the Everyman in Hampstead, where I was going … more…

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links for 2008-05-09: signage fonts, Richard Price

CBRD – Media – Fonts British road sign fonts. I searched in vain for information about these, a couple of years ago. (via russel davies) (tags: typography UK road-signs) The Believer – Interview with Richard Price – containing, amongst other … more…

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Knight’s Pictorial Shakespeare, 1842

Persons Represented, Macbeth, Knight’s Pictorial Shakespeare, 1842 A recent plunge into the dustier regions turned up a copy of this book which I only vaguely recall owning, and have no clear recollection of buying. I only have a single volume … more…

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links for 2008-03-18: boiled hippos

New Kerouac/Burroughs book to be published in November And The Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks – is not thought to be anything more than whimsical juvenilia, but the title alone will brighten book stores considerably… (tags: Burroughs Kerouac Hippos … more…

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links for 2008-02-05: Paul Di Filippo

Paul Di Filippo’s Wikiworld Short story, a year old, not sure how it escaped my notice this long… (tags: scifi fiction wiki Paul_Di_Filippo)

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