Mark Charan Newton

Nice little interview with J.G. Ballard at the Guardian website. There really is no one quite like him. A couple of years ago I read a few of his books in the usual author flings I have, where I buy up lots of their books and proclaim them the best thing that ever happened to [...]

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Two for the price of one. Firstly, some Friday night beats. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video

And so what’s more important, inequality, or the fact that both higher and lower income earners in poor countries rising as well as a result of global trade. Just an interesting point to [...]

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Brother Ass, the so-called act of living is really an act of the imagination. The world—which we always visualize as ‘the outside’ World—yields only to self-exploration! Faced by this cruel, yet necessary paradox, the poet finds himself growing gills and a tail, the better to swim against the currents of unenlightenment.
—Lawrence Durrell, Clea.
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Sweet lord, M. John Harrison has returned to the blogosphere. That lunch hour doesn’t look so dull anymore. Now let’s just wait for him to wind some people up and have them barking at each other.
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I mentioned before about my inclusion in ut, but this great line up has been posted for Darkness on the Edge: Tales Inspired by the Songs of Bruce Springsteen. I’m apparently the finale…
I’m a big fan of the Boss. He’s second only to Dylan in intensity and depth of lyrics, but streets ahead in [...]

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It was sunny today…
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Or at least the fiction market. Here are some things to consider:
1 ) The majority of people who read a lot of fiction love books, the physical thing. Period. They are unlikely to stop buying books because of this physical love. They like them on their shelves. They like walking up to them. Perhaps lending [...]

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Oh, Knightmare was so good. And people say nothing good was made in the 90s. If they ever brought this back I would die with giddiness, although if Brian Blessed was not crowbarred into it somehow I’d be emailing some dude every hour to [...]

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