Another colonel
Thinks it’s his turn to spring clean
The big boss – hi coup!
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Another colonel It took a while for the quokka to warm up and approach me. “Now kill it,” my sister said from behind the camera. I told her no. I told her she couldn’t make me. She said she could. I watched the quokka nibble the same fingers that could take a life. Two weeks later we buried her husband. [...] Since his name starts with a Z, Zhou tunes in at 11.58 every night. It could be worse – he knows people who take time off work to find a quiet room to listen to their names being read out over tinny speakers. Zhou Ji Yijiu is a worthless and lazy media whore with bad teeth [...] “I love you, Miss Susan,” said the little robot plaintively. “That’s sweet,” she replied, bending down to press the button on the side of the robot’s head. With a click and a buzz, the light disappeared from the robot’s eyes, and its metal posture seemed to go slack. Susan sighed. She would have to [...] I suppose three trends have lead Salt Publishing to its current financial difficulties: The lack of a viable commercial strategy for poetry, although it’s hard to imagine that one could ever exist. J. G. Ballard was the ghostwriter for postwar English literature, standing at the shoulder of all writers who staked out the city or the suburbs1 whether they realised it or not. You’ll read about his literary achievements in the obituaries that spring up like mushrooms around his death yesterday, but I doubt that those achievements [...] Stoop: All of the rave reviews that often accompany your work tend to say that you’re a great “crime” writer, that you are rewriting the “crime” genre – crime this and crime that, basically. It’s not something I wholly agree with – there are crime elements to your novels but I think your work is more [...] While reading this post, you should be listening to Little Brother by ‘O’rang. Little Brother It’s time to admit that being published by Granta – even if only online – was one of my teenage ambitions. Granta published “The Coup” by Bruce Chatwin, the first piece of travel writing I remember reading, as well [...] In theory: Round and round this goes, with the people committed to saving newspapers demanding to know “If the old model is broken, what will work in its place?” To which the answer is: Nothing. Nothing will work. There is no general model for newspapers to replace the one the internet just broke. - Clay [...] Writing about writing is usually a bad idea – who wants to hear about how you spent the day staring at a light switch and wondering how to get from A to B in your head? Mental. The Guardian has interviews with some name writers about how they feel about writing which are short enough [...] |
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