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[18.11.06] [Andrew Gallix]
THE MISSING LINKS
 Stewart Home on Lynne Tillman's deconstruction of the Great American Novel: "This is not simply as good as the novel ever gets, it is actually better because it dissolves the traditional form of the bourgeois novel and in going beyond it simultaneously returns us to the joys of the 'pre-modern'". (Isn't that what most interesting writers were doing throughout the 20th century?) * Jon Savage on Joe Meek. * An interview with Frederic Beigbeder whose next book will be set in Moscow. * A video interview with Iain Sinclair. * Toby Litt interviews JG Ballard. * An interview with Keith Gessen, editor of the "unapologetically highbrow" n+1 magazine: "Back in the day, you would occasionally stumble upon some person blogging about their very private reading, what it was like, what their reactions were. Those people still exist, but they're drowned out by people who are just purveyors of literary gossip -- who comment on books they haven't even read, who, as Marco likes to say, are just basically freelance publicists. It's one thing to be corrupted by, say, the pressure of writing for the New York Times Book Review, or the prospect of employment somewhere, or a blurb. But to sell your birthright for a couple of review copies and a link on a blogroll! For shame". Then read this. * Bad Idea magazine. * Former 3:AM editor Kimberley Nichols tells the truth about tantric sex. * Laura Hird gets writers and artists to talk about music. Poet R.C. Edrington re-views Inflammable Material. * The Underground Literary Alliance Book Reviews. * 3:AM's Edgier Waters gets slated. * A grandad with a dodgy brick-throwing arm. * Jim Ruland reviews/interviews Joe Meno. * A stupid review of Tom Hodgkinson's How to Be Free. * High Mordenism. * Great old punk videos (via dogmatika). More here. * Bill Drummond. * Cornwall's smallest museum. * Courtney Love, the Dirty Blonde. * Whatever happened to Les Bains Douches? * Toff rock: "Bands like The Horrors started springing up, claiming to represent the outsider despite being Rugby-educated toffs whose parents out-earned the GDP of most countries". * Alan Bissett on why we can't all be Irvine Welsh: "So why are the middle-classes represented by an enormous array of 'acclaimed' writers, when theirs, in fact, forms a minority culture? Standard English remains the default setting for novelistic prose, even though the various constituencies of Britain use far more diverse lexicons". * Andrew Motion on Kingsley Amis. * Ian Rankin on Thomas Pynchon: "Pynchon himself describes Against the Day as 1,000 pages of 'stupid songs, strange sexual practices ... obscure languages' and 'contrary-to-the-fact occurrences'. To which I say: bring it on". * Oh, and check out the great interview with Alan Moore over at ReadySteadyBook.
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