Big fan of this guy anyway, and this seems to be completely brilliant.
Hmm, just noticed who posted before this post.
Hi! Love the book! Ordered mine from Palomino.
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I just put both issues of my Curb zine up online if anyone wants to fill 5 minutes of their day: https://issuu.com/edsyder0
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I’ll definitely take a look - thanks!
What are you writing?
There’s a market for skate culture retrospectives now. Trawler has written several about 80s/90s skating
Might be worth looking at how this was published.
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Thanks! Glad you’re enjoying it.
My interview is up on the Skateboarder And Podcast!
https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cDovL2ZlZWRzLnNvdW5kY2xvdWQuY29tL3VzZXJzL3NvdW5kY2xvdWQ6dXNlcnM6MTUxNTUyMDEwL3NvdW5kcy5yc3M/episode/dGFnOnNvdW5kY2xvdWQsMjAxMDp0cmFja3MvMTAyNTIwMjI4MA?ep=14
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Working my way backwards through the Pulitzer fiction winners lately, bit of Americana.
Just finished The Overstory by Richard Powers. Can’t remember a book I’ve been so immediately absorbed by. I’m not going to try and review it yet, needs to sink in a bit. There were things I didn’t like about it but overall I enjoyed it so much, despite the sense of impending doom.
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With the situation in Afghanistan and the 20th anniversary of 9/11 just around the corner this is proving to be a very interesting read.
The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden and the future of terrorism
Published in 1998 and written by Simon Reeve, (you know, that nice young man off the telly that does those investigative travelogue shows on BBC2). It bombed, forgive the bad taste pun, on it’s release and stood pretty much alone as an investigation into the subject. That was until 9/11 and then suddenly the media (and intelligence agencies) wanted a piece of Simon as he seemed to be the ‘go to’ expert and everyone needed to get someone to provide an explanation as to where the fuck this situation arose from.
As an aside, Reeve’s autobiography, The Life in My Journeys’ is worth a read. He’s led an interesting life and his background might surprise you.
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Calling it now, there’ll be a terrorist chemical attack on the COP26 summit. The most important known people in the world all in one place, and that place has no idea what it’s doing in general day-to-day anyway, let alone has the ability to handle something like this…?
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I tried reading that once. Dunno how many pages I got in but never again.
Dracula is a good one if you want to go way back. Reasonably easy to read.
Respect for getting that far! That first chapter about whaling goes on for an eternity. I got about half way through many years ago. It’s on my list of books I feel I really ought to read. I’ve been stuck on the first chapter of the first book of Proust for months. It’s just the narrator trying and failing to go to sleep. It’s doing my head in.
Stop reading it then. Life’s way too short.
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Is there a decent film of it? Or Simpsons parody? That’d do me.
Smashed the Bob Mortimer book in a day.
An absolute joy to read.
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If you were still interested in a précis of the plot of Moby Dick…
(This guy doesn’t subscribe to the Nuke the Whales theory. At least, he doesn’t mention it in the 7 minute clip here).
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