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Stephen Gill is having a photographic show of his Hackney riot stones in Helsinki.

The free, stitched-newspaper format version, OFF GROUND, for which I have written a text (‘Improving the Image of Destruction’), can still be got from Stephen. I believe that there is also a limited edition of the same.

Iain Sinclair

Savage Messiah by Laura Oldfield Ford – review (An inspired collection of urban rambles)

On the Guardian, Iain reviews  Savage Messiah by Laura Oldfield Ford.

On Versobooks blog, Decca Muldowney writes about Iain’s review.

Patience (After Sebald)

“Diehard Sebaldians may seek to retrace the footsteps that formed the basis of WG Sebald’s meditative masterpiece The Rings of Saturn. Or they may choose to watch Grant Gee’s film tribute instead. Patience (After Sebald) takes as its fulcrum the German expatriate’s category-defying memoir-cum-history, travelogue-cum-novel – which was published in 1995 and is considered by [...]

“The Face on the Fork: A William Burroughs Triptych” – new booklet by Iain Sinclair

An extract from the booklet that will be published later this month by Kevin Ring’s Beat Scene Press. It’s called ‘The Face on the Fork: A William Burroughs Triptych.’

I have tried to present a refracted portrait of Burroughs through my dealings with him over a forty year period. The portrait comes in three panels.

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On Front Row reviewing play based on ‘The Ladykillers’

Radio 4 Front Row, last night, reviewing play based on ‘The Ladykillers’

The Ladykillers, the classic Ealing comedy film, now arrives on stage in a new adaptation by Graham Linehan, with a cast including Peter Capaldi, Ben Miller and James Fleet. Writer Iain Sinclair reviews.

Link to the website with audio recording: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b017x3pz