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READ covers fiction, fanzines, zines with no fans except for us, websites, blogs, magazines, artist's books and other independent releases. Chances are, if it's been published then we know about it and chances are, if it's not in TwoThousand, then we didn't like it. READ is for people who were born with ink in their veins and a fat balding critic on their shoulder. READ has also created more best-sellers than Oprah's Book Club and more wannabe to be writers than Hunter S Thompson.
Torpedo Greatest Hits
After three years, seven issues and a smorgasbord of contributions from writers near and far, illustrious and unknown, the Torpedo fiction quarterly has decided to call it a day. But with a name like that, don't expect it to go out with a whimper. Editor Chris Flynn has teamed up with the folks at Hunter Publishing, and now we have a Greatest Hits anthology in lovely paperback to send it off in style.
Habitus
The advertising in a magazine is often a fairly accurate indication of the publication's target audience. So, after leafing through the first few pages of Habitus it became abundantly clear that I do not fall within that demographic.
It's not for a lack of interest in contemporary designer homewares, rather that my present financial situation precludes any active involvement in the world that Habitus represents.
Interview with Bret Easton Ellis - PART 2
Robert Coleman's interview with Bret Easton Ellis started badly, or well, depending on your definition of either term. Read on for part 2, in which Coleman's questions run out, and Bret asks "So how are we going to wrap this up?"
Robert Coleman - Okay, so are you going to be re-introducing any characters in future works?
Bret Easton Ellis - No.
Beer & Brewer
Ah, Beer magazine. The place where geeky and blokey meet. And get drunk.
You can't get much geekier than proudly proclaiming "191 beers inside". Other geeky topics in the Spring issue of this quarterly mag: 'frontier' (experimental or unusual) beers, Melbourne bar Biero's patented 'Beervault', Italian craft beers, and a Melbournian sustainability consultant who caters events on a pushbike loaded with kegs of his own craft beer.
Finding Frida Kahlo
The other day while using the library as a video store a librarian whispered over the counter and told me about a new book that had just arrived that exhibits the contents of 5 of the suitcases that belonged to Frida Kahlo, that have been kept in storage for forty years.
The woman behind the operation is Barbara Levine, art director and curator and all round Ms Collector of Treasures.
Interview with Bret Easton Ellis - PART 1
Bret Easton Ellis is taller than I'd imagined and less humble than I'd hoped. I guess I had it coming - never having finished any of his books and substituting lack of research by watching American Psycho for the first time after nine beers only the night before. The surprising outcome was, as he put it, "an undiluted Bret Easton Ellis experience.
Portable Grindhouse : The Lost Art of the VHS Box
Let's play 'I spy'. Ready? Look around you. I spy something that in ten years will be obsolete.
Portable Grindhouse is a tributary 'don't know what you've got 'till it's gone' love letter to the awesomeness that was the 80s videotape box. The focus here is on lowbrow films, from obscure Ilsa flicks to Charles Bronson cheese.
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