We Need A Gathering Instead
Classics Of Love at Barfly, London, 2009. Photo by Imelda Michalczyk When Lookout Records, the label I co-founded and ran
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Studs Lonigan: Looking Back Into My Future
In the course of a search for Patrick Hamilton’s The Gorse Trilogy, I wandered into bookshops new and old across
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Winter 2012
It’s been months, has it? Well, I guess it has, and while I feel guilty for having let this splendid
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Kreayshawn Reconsidered
Some of the best – and some of the worst – writing I’ve done has been in a fit of
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Kreayshawn: The New Face Of White Racism
(See also: “Kreayshawn Reconsidered”, in which I realize I went way over the top with some of the things I
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The Great Divide
The fallout from Ben Weasel’s meltdown continues to rival that from the Fukushima reactor: the most recent news is that
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We Become What We Hit
Some people find it hard to believe that after all the ups and rather precipitous downs we’ve been through, I
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When Is Politics Anything But Personal?
My old friend Ben Weasel is having a bit of a comeback these days. Maybe more than a bit; after
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Subway Gates
She climbed the steps at Lorimer Street with effortless self-absorption. By the time she’d reached the top, the crowd disembarking
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