The summer 2010 issue of the brilliant Nude Magazine (issue 16) is out now, and it contains an article by yours truly about Jacno, the founder of the Stinky Toys who went on to become a pioneer of French electropop:
“A look back at the too short life of Denis Quillard (aka Jacno), the artistocratic pop dandy, former Stinky Toy and pioneer of French electronic music.”
My piece on Alain Robbe-Grillet‘s Towards a New Novel appeared in Guardian Books today.
One of my short stories — “Sweet Fanny Adams” — features in The Beat Anthology 2006-2010, edited by Sean McGahey and published on 30 April 2010 by Blackheath Books. The other contributors are: Darran Anderson, Jenni Fagan, Steve Finbow, Chris Killen, Melissa Mann, Sean McGahey, Ben Myers, UV Ray, Joseph Ridgwell, Lee Rourke and Susan Tomaselli. The first 52 copies include a playing card and a spoken word CD. More here.
Today, we — Guillaume Destot and I — launched a site called 3:PM Magazine devoted to cutting-edge fiction for children.
My piece on René Girard‘s mimetic desire appeared on the Guardian Books Blog today.
I’m doing a series of blogs on literary criticism (called “In Theory”) for the Guardian‘s website. The first one, about “The Death of the Author,” was published today.
A short piece on Matthew Coleman‘s artwork appears in the Winter issue of the excellent Flux magazine.
On 30 December 2009, Susan Tomaselli devoted her first 3:AM Cult Hero feature to a piece I’d written about Arthur Cravan for the Guardian Books Blog. You’ll find the full text here.
My short tribute to Jacno appeared on the Guardian‘s music blog today. You’ll find it here.
I have a piece on Arthur Cravan in the new issue of Flux magazine (issue 70, subtitled “The Hysterical Issue”).
Here’s the announcement:
Arthur Cravan: artist, poet & boxer put all his genius into a life full of sound and fury, high farce and convulsive beauty that influenced every major avant-garde movement from Dada onwards.
My review of Jean-Yves Jouannais‘s Artistes sans oeuvres appears in this week’s Times Literary Supplement.
ANDREW GALLIX 