I Miss Her by Viccy Adams
July 13, 2010 – 1:14 pm | One Comment

I play my grandmother’s memory loss in a game for closeness.
‘Gene Richards,’ she says.  ‘I was thinking about him the other day.’
‘He wasn’t at the funeral, was he?’ I say, because we had this conversation …

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FESTIVALS – LATITUDE 2010
July 28, 2010 – 7:21 am | No Comment
FESTIVALS – LATITUDE 2010

By Cathy Thomas
And so another train journey down to Henham Park in Suffolk spent brimming with excitement at the prospect of live music, organic burgers and spray-painted sheep.
While Latitude was a much bigger festival …

FLIP SEAT FRINGE – SLAPDASH AT THE OLD VIC TUNNELS
July 26, 2010 – 11:03 am | No Comment
FLIP SEAT FRINGE – SLAPDASH AT THE OLD VIC TUNNELS

Although south of the river, the Old Vic is an establishment theatre, staging top revivals and adding a dazzle of well-funded glamour to the Southbank. But just recently it has branched out into the avant …

TV – Lennon Naked
July 13, 2010 – 3:56 pm | No Comment
TV – Lennon Naked

Christopher Eccleston, the only Doctor Who to sport a shaved head and a shouty Northern demeanour, carries his own baggage. In other words, he is not an actor to disappear within the part, although he …

TV – France on a Plate
July 13, 2010 – 3:52 pm | No Comment
TV – France on a Plate

Andrew Hussey, presenter of BBC Four’s France on a Plate, likes to wear his smart dark suit, whether feasting alone in Parisian brasseries, noseying around restaurant kitchens or careering in an old motor through …

TV – World Cup Live with James Corden
July 13, 2010 – 3:44 pm | No Comment
TV – World Cup Live with James Corden

During the introduction of James Corden’s World Cup Live (ITV1), as Corden shouted and paced through his hot, cramped studio, my television reception cut out. For a few seconds, a blank screen hovered, as if …

Hackney WickED Art Festival 2010
July 13, 2010 – 1:18 pm | No Comment
Hackney WickED Art Festival 2010

Friday 30 July – Sunday 1 August 2010

Three-day programme full to the brim with art, music, pop up events
Gavin Turk returns as festival patron in Agile Rabbit show at The Lighthouse Pub
624 studios and …

I Miss Her by Viccy Adams
July 13, 2010 – 1:14 pm | One Comment
I Miss Her by Viccy Adams

I play my grandmother’s memory loss in a game for closeness.
‘Gene Richards,’ she says.  ‘I was thinking about him the other day.’
‘He wasn’t at the funeral, was he?’ I say, because we had this conversation …

INSIDE PUBLISHING – Festival, Fiesta
July 13, 2010 – 12:22 pm | No Comment
INSIDE PUBLISHING – Festival, Fiesta

Have you ever been to a literary festival, or a book festival? They’re different from book fairs – those are industry-only, business affairs where rights deals are struck and conferences are held.

MICHAEL AMHERST – ALL MY SONS
June 28, 2010 – 10:02 am | No Comment
MICHAEL AMHERST – ALL MY SONS

Every once in a while a performance of a play comes along that defines the genre or the playwright for you. It is the measure by which you judge all future productions of the same …

INTERVIEW – MIGUEL SYJUCO
June 7, 2010 – 12:43 pm | No Comment
INTERVIEW – MIGUEL SYJUCO

by John Syfret

Miguel Syjuco cuts a trim and dapper figure when I meet him, dressed in light chinos and collared shirt, he is at ease in the sweltering heat of a glass-topped room in King’s …

FLIP SEAT FRINGE – ROMEO AND JULIET
June 7, 2010 – 10:26 am | No Comment
FLIP SEAT FRINGE – ROMEO AND JULIET

by Adam E. Smith
The basement at the Leicester Square Theatre has been transformed into a cheap garden centre. Black and white chessboard lino, limp hanging plants and a trickling water feature decorate the tiny space. …

NEWS – STOKE NEWINGTON LITERARY FESTIVAL 4TH-6TH JUNE
June 3, 2010 – 12:07 pm | No Comment

This is the blurb on the upcoming Stoke Newington Literary Festival, which looks well worth checking out this weekend:
It celebrates the area’s long and influential literary history and hopes to keep the spirit of radical …

INSIDE PUBLISHING – BOOKISH PEOPLE
May 28, 2010 – 2:06 pm | No Comment

by Rebecca Lee
When you can buy books from aisle 2 of your weekly supermarket sweep, why bother going into a bookshop? Or why can’t you just go on Amazon?
A regime change at Waterstones is planning …

Underwood: Interview with Toby Litt
May 21, 2010 – 9:58 am | No Comment
Underwood: Interview with Toby Litt

by Katy Darby

Do you like short stories? Do you remember vinyl? If the answer to both these questions is yes, then you, sir or madam, are the target audience for the quirky, cool and …

Questions by Alexander Starritt
May 11, 2010 – 12:58 pm | No Comment

Crompton was about to be assaulted with questions like the one that had undone his predecessor. Someone had asked why there weren’t enough helicopters to provide air cover for the boys in Helmand. He hadn’t …

CARTOON – RANDOM QUESTION TIME
May 11, 2010 – 12:09 pm | No Comment
CARTOON – RANDOM QUESTION TIME

By Becky Fawcett

INSIDE PUBLISHING – A LITTLE BIT OF LUCK
May 11, 2010 – 11:56 am | No Comment
INSIDE PUBLISHING – A LITTLE BIT OF LUCK

Books take time to make. As you will know from all those doomed university essays (why is 2,000 words so many?), word counts are pesky things and books need at least 30,000. We also need …

COMPETITION – UNDERWOOD LIMITED EDITION VINYL
May 6, 2010 – 7:28 am | No Comment

UNDERWOOD have given us two very cool and beautifully designed vinyl records to give away. Info is below.
For your chance to win, just email
tristan.summerscale@notesfromtheunderground.co.uk
(aka the world’s longest email address) by the end of this week …

Interview – Learn Something Every Day
May 5, 2010 – 5:20 am | No Comment
Interview – Learn Something Every Day

What a lovely idea from some lovely people. Every day visitors to their site send them facts, and they pick one to turn into an illustration. Manchester based design agency Young have signed a deal …

INSIDE PUBLISHING – PAPER RULES
April 30, 2010 – 6:13 am | No Comment

Paper rules.
I’m not talking about in books themselves – digital is coming, get used to it – I’m talking about in publishing. In the office. In our daily working lives.