Glad to be of assistance 🙏

You can hear me enthusing about this book with Jude Rogers on the Songbook podcast >

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My sister is a dabhand at that game -- even with her guidance, I still couldn't bring myself to record one. Hoping there will be a move away from 'bad tv presenter' mode into something less person-focused for those of us who don't like being in front of the camera.

Great piece and well done you for biting the bullet. The thought of filming a short “buy my f*cking book” video clip fills me with total horror. Spent a few weeks sniffing around on Tik Tok and quickly deleted the account. It’s a level of pure hell that I refuse to enter.

ICYMI: Last week’s interview with Irmin Schmidt (which was a real pleasure to write and record)…

That’s wonderful. Thank you.

Adelle Stripe on A Childhood: The Biography of a Place Author Adelle Stripe talks to Glenn Fisher about her pick for the library, the 1978 memoir A Childhood: The Biography of a Place by Harry Crews

Reposting this recording from last year on A Childhood: The Biography of a Place by Harry Crews. Library of Lazy Thinking’s archive is superb — I highly recommend a rummage.

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It is always a puzzle why other books win the big prizes and she is routinely ignored. Justice has been served. Hail Gwendoline.

Thanks very much. Rob’s book is excellent, I highly recommend it.

A Particular Beauty: Irmin Schmidt Interviewed | The Quietus From Can's "school of pain" to the electroacoustic, treated piano work of new album Requiem, Irmin Schmidt reflects

Read my interview with the great Irmin Schmidt @thequietus.com — in which we discuss his lifelong obsession with art, Can’s “school of pain”, Stockhausen, Artaud, Twombly and his legendary wife, Hildegard.

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What is to be done?

Two Myers Adaptations for Warp Films & Matriarch Productions News just in: Ben’s novels The Perfect Golden Circle (Bloomsbury, 2022) and Beastings (Bluemoose Books, 2014) have been optioned by Mark Herbert at Warp Films (This Is England, Dead Man’s Shoes) and S...

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JUST IN! 'Cosmic Music: The Life, Art and Transcendence of Alice Coltrane' by Andy Beta

First full-length biography on spiritual jazz icon Alice Coltrane from music journalist Andy Beta. Check the signed copies.

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Base Notes by Adele Stripe. New paperback edition published by White Rabbit Books

Always enjoy reading @adellestripe.bsky.social and this clear-eyed episodic memoir no exception. “An alternative confessional of working-class life in the closing years of the twentieth century”.

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Base Notes. Wonderfully inventive memoir which brought back many memories of Bradford where I lived and worked for 14 years. Also recommended: Stripe’s Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile about Andrea Dunbar.

Thanks very much. Pleased to hear you enjoyed the book.

Flock and awe: inside the big changes at Henry Moore’s glorious sheep-filled Hoglands home The great sculptor worked as a war artist in the 1940s, sketching people sheltering from bombings. Now his powerful underground drawings are opening the vast, renovated sheep barn gallery at his Arcad...

Working for the Henry Moore Foundation many moons ago had numerous perks, visiting Perry Green on a regular basis was one of them. I love this place.

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Adelle Stripe meets the artist George Shaw in Sheffield to discuss the 13 records that shaped his formative years, from Annette to Fred Wesley, ska to electro pop

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: #GeorgeShaw’s Favourite Records

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📷 Images of Youth in Cumbria

In 1990, John Rigby worked with young people in West Cumbria to make portraits shaped by their own choices of dress, setting and pose. The result is a collaborative record of youth identity, self-presentation and place.

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Certainly an experience I won’t be repeating, but it was the block in the road that needed moving. So now it’s been shifted, the writing can progress.

Ah, that’s great to hear. Nice leather pouffe you have there too.

Small Returns is very much up your strasse. Well worth a Sheffield field trip.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: George Shaw’s Favourite Records Along the back alleys, down by the underpass, hidden in ginnels, or the places where many wouldn’t dare venture after dusk, that’s where you’ll find George Shaw walking in the shadows. His work is foc...

I sat down with George Shaw last week to discuss his 13 favourite records for @thequietus.com. This was a total pleasure to write and record. His new exhibition ‘Small Returns’ runs until 25 April at Persistence Works Gallery in Sheffield.

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Rimbaud of Maghull Liverpool writer Jeff Young has attracted a dedicated readership in recent years, following publication of two books that powerfully and hypnotically catalogue late-1970s Europe and his native Merseys...

Adelle Stripe’s wonderful review of Wild Twin in Tribune popped up on instagram today so posting it here again . Thanks Adelle! @adellestripe.bsky.social @littletollerbooks.bsky.social

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Pilgrimage for the pooch

Spoken word from a few years back …

I sincerely believe that learning should be for life, and that we will not progress as a nation without providing support for people to better themselves, whatever their age or background.

He hasn’t thought this through. What a plonker.

I concur with your theory. Piss up in a brewery springs to mind.

Hats off to all the oldies! Our degree was around 40% mature, which brought up the standard all-round. It was far better for the younger students too. They couldn‘t arse around as expectations were higher.