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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 SixThousand, 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.
Star: The Life & Wild Times of Warren Beatty
Whether depicting Robert Altman's fondness for whorehouse blowjobs in Easy Riders, Raging Bulls or character assassinating Harvey Weinstein in Down and Dirty Pictures, Peter Biskind has a tendency for getting sued. Now he's readied his lawyers for the release of Star: The Life & Wild Times of Warren Beatty.
Cassette From My Ex: Stories and Soundtracks of Lost Loves
Mixtapes were, without a doubt, the best thing about the 20th Century. The Theory of Relativity, Cornflakes, Penicillin, teabags, sporks, velcro, crayons and the frisbee were all quite impressive inventions, but I'm sure you'll agree there's a clear winner here. Where was the frisbee when you were clumsily trying to hammer your angsty teenage feelings into a shape another person might understand, hmmm? Where was Einstein when your 'soulmate' dumped you for that dude with the hair? Did Penicillin save you when you were so sick with love you sang 'The End of the Road' 17 times on a deserted beach? No.
Weekly zine review #3 - 'YOU'
Nobody writes letters anymore. Except Luke You. This week I picked up the latest issue, sat down with a tea and read for the first time about how he's been plagued with crippling doubt. Unusual, I thought. At some point he realised he would be playing the first gig in a long time as lead guitarist and my anonymous hard working zine hero has appeared to suffer a freak out.
Granta Issue 108: Chicago
San Francisco and New York are the touchstone cities of American literature, leaving somewhere less fashionable like Chicago out in the wind and rain, despite the fact Hemingway, Eggers and Obama all grew up there. Strangely, Chicago has found an unusual champion in UK lit journal Granta.
The Chris Ware wrap around cover promises much.
The Three-Day Blow #1
Approximately 1,700kms off the West Australian coast is an 19km long iceberg known as B17B . It's unlikely that it'll make it here in one piece, but the journey, none the less, is impressive.
Ernest Hemmingway was fond of icebergs, or rather an "Iceberg Theory" of writing, one where less is more.
Important Artifacts and Personal Property From the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion and Jewelry
Managing to find a fresh angle in the tired but ever-universal love story genre, Important Artifacts and Personal Property cleverly reduces a relationship down to the form of an auction catalogue.
It all begins with a flyer to a friend's Halloween party where New Yorkers Lenore and Harold first met, then continues through the postcards, presents and general ‘stuff' that weaves the tapestry of their years together.
Disco Rough #1: ZickZack Records
Meet Samuel Miers. Sam is a man with a passion. A passion for musical niches you didn't even realise existed. Six months ago, Sam decided that rock music had been unknowingly profiting off early-80s German New Wave, and in particular the primary progenitor of the movement, ZickZack Records, for far too long.
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