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Description Praise In a near-future England, a new government entity—the Ministry of Brains—attempts to stave off idiocracy through a program of compulsory selective breeding. Kitty Grammont, who shares the author's own ambivalent attitude to life, gets involved in the Ministry's propaganda efforts, which are detailed with an entertaining thoroughness.
Matthew De Abaitua
‘The title might nod to Withnail, as do some of the odd couple’s odder exploits – including the consumption of many a “special cigarette” – but this erudite yet hilarious account will resonate with anyone trudging in the footsteps of a more successful figure’ The Observer ‘This book comes very close to being a classic memoir of literary apprenticeship. Hilarious..’ The Oldie ‘De Abaitua’s prose... is full of wit, playfulness and intelligence.
SERIOCOMIC (6) - HILOBROW
By: Matthew De Abaitua February 6, 2019 One in a weekly series of enthusiastic posts, contributed by HILOBROW friends and regulars, on the topic of our favorite comic books, comic strips, and graphic novels. * CAPTAIN BRITAIN Alan Moore and Alan Davis’ Captain Britain was first published as a serial strip, between 1981–1984, in Marvel UK anthology comics The Daredevils and The Mighty World of Marvel.
by Matthew De Abaitua
A unique, remarkable and hilarious portrait of one our most talked-about and controversial literary figures. For the next six months, De Abaitua and Self share a remote cottage in Suffolk, working on their literary ambitions. They are distracted by hikes to Sizewell nuclear power station, opium tea and the allure of Soho. Thanks to Self and his library of bad influences, from JG Ballard to William Burroughs, De Abaitua undergoes a rite of passage that changes him forever.
Eavesdropping on Beauvoir, Sartre and Their Circle of Friends
Carefully combing through an impressive amount of material, Poirier assembles the history of a decade in Paris as she tries to explain how these figures came to loom so large. And what a difference a decade makes — the period just before midcentury saw two republics and an occupation, the rise of communism and the beginning of both the Cold War and the war in Indochina.
Self & I By Matthew De Abaitua reviewed by Hamish Robinson
This book comes very close to being a classic memoir of literary apprenticeship. It’s a rich field – one thinks of De Quincey on Wordsworth, Hazlitt on Coleridge or Richard Kennedy’s A Boy at the Hogarth Press – dominated by one masterpiece, Boswell’s Life of Johnson. As well as being a full biography, the Life is also a study in passionate discipleship.
May 10, 2017: Best Genre Novels of 2016! | Josephmallozzi's Weblog on WordPress.com
My favorites… The Suicide Motor Club by Christopher Buehlman “Remember that car that passed you near midnight on Route 66, doing 105 with its lights off? You wondered where it was going so quickly on that dark, dusty stretch of road, motor roaring, the driver glancing out the window as he blew by. Did his greedy eyes shine silver like a coyote’s? Did he make you feel like prey? You can’t remember now. You just saw the founder of the Suicide Motor Club. Be grateful his brake lights never flashed.
Short story: The university of the sun | New Scientist
A CHIME in his office informed him that the third and final candidate had arrived for the test. He kept a physical office in the University of the Sun with a view of the curve of Istor College, and – as the university drifted between the sun and the perihelion of Mercury – a veined sunsky of roiling violet.
Purple Exegetics
Wendy Melvoin is fresh from high school. She is a wearing a V-necked sleeveless top, and patterned shorts. She is playing the first chords of a new song on her purple guitar, opening chords that she wrote, a circular motif with a chorus effect. Wendy is eighteen-nineteen and she has the high cheekbones and diffident confidence of a Hollywood upbringing. She half-smiles at the faces that crowd close to the low club stage.
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