Baby it’s cold, and wet, outside so brighten your days by losing yourself in one or two, or all of these recommendations from 26 members. From a punchy exhibition on journalism and conflict, to THE silent movie we’re all talking about, and a marriage plot… …more
This month we have some fantastic recommendations from the 26 membership including lots of books. Just what we’re after for those long winter nights! …more
Berliner Mike Benson in Brooklyn is teaming up with 50/50 – an initiative to fight famine in Africa – to provide Poetry for good / poetry for food. …more
This month’s smorgasbord of recommendations from the 26 membership include William Boyd, a local book shop, the 5×15 literary event, a writing festival and poetry tapas. …more
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Stern I know you know all about this freak of eighteenth literature – what I want to highlight is this particular version by UTTERLY MARVELLOUS fledgling publishers Visual Editions. If you do nothing else today check out their small but perfectly formed range of delightful …more
What is your favourite children’s book? The Possum that Didn’t by Frank Tashlin Frank was a cartoon animator for Warner Brothers, wrote gags for the Marx Brothers, screenplays for Bob Hope, and directed a string of Jerry Lewis movies. This beautifully drawn and gently subversive book is laced with messages about ‘point of view’ and …more
Creative Mischief by Dave Trott, published by LOAF Marketing, £7.99 Musings from the colourful Mr Trott on various issues pertaining to advertising and creativity in general. Various pearls scattered throughout. Similar in ambition and form to the Paul Arden books. Lots. Of. Short sentences. Create. A. Self consciously. Edgy. Feel. Roger Horberry The Power of …more
Retromania: pop culture’s addiction to its own past by Simon Reynolds, Faber and Faber, £9.99 Another throughout provoking and highly readable book from the author of the magisterial “Rip it Up”. Not easy to summarise: basically musical culture has stalled, pop is eating itself and the result is a myriad of mircotrends none of which …more
Secret Life of the Grown-Up Brain by Barbara Strauch, Penguin, £9.99 This book is for everyone who walks downstairs, then has to go back upstairs to remind themselves why they went downstairs in the first place. It reassuringly describes new research into neuroscience, explaining that absent-mindedness of middle age develops at the same time as …more
I Wonder by Marian Bantjes A thing of remarkable beauty unlike anything else I’ve seen recently. Typographic experiments combine with texts based on personal (sometimes very personal) reflections about life, creativity and all that stuff. I’m no expert but she seems to have evolved a visual language all her own. The result is readable, original …more
