come on feel the noise
03 January 2009
"There's a real center around the band around which so much seems to move."
with love and squalor
01 January 2009
I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
girls with guns
01 January 2009
Some of the most staggering noir fiction I've raced through in recent years was by prolific female authors: Cathi Unsworth, Megan Abbot and Christa Faust are three of the writers whose work I've devoured quicker than a bullet fired from a Glock pistol and returned to again eagerly.
that was 2008
31 December 2008
Your editor "talks shit" over at Will Ashon's place [aka my Books of the Year].
death of a dramatist
26 December 2008
A sombre xmas, as news of playwright Harold Pinter's death breaks.
bah humbug
22 December 2008
Christmas Eve babe in the drunk tank
the patron saint of sinners
19 December 2008
I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty- a sunken beauty.
eat your own spaceship
12 December 2008
Is that baby going to be alright?
Flux capacitors
11 December 2008
Use these matches to destroy all art museums...burn anything
always at night, like a werewolf
10 December 2008
"I wasn't very interested in doing things that were polite or respectful, where there was nothing vicious or visceral."
WRITING
A Bin Bag Full Of Compost
Jenn Ashworth
Gooch St
Valerie O'Riordan
The Only Rational Colour for Mouthwash, or How to Loot
Crispin Best
The Wrong Green
Robert Warrington
FEATURES
Birdhouse in your Soul
Darran Anderson interviews Chris Killen

Words to be looked at
Michael Jacobson interviews Tim Gaze
Staring into the Abyss
To celebrate the launch of Bookkake, Darran Anderson considers the rise and fall of the literary nasty.
For Some, Morning Never Comes
Peter Anderson
An American Nightmare: The US versus Nelson Algren
Darran Anderson
The end of America:
Miles Newbold Clark interviews Noah Cicero
Tea at Trimalchio's XLII
with Paul Kavanagh
Modern Haiku XVIIV
Elizabeth Rose Murray
Devils and Dust: Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian revisited
Darran Anderson
Tea at Trimalchio's XLI
with Paul Kavanagh