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“The book I would really like to see would be Iain Sinclair’s account of walking through today’s Lower East Side.”

Back in February, Iain sent me this snippet from a blog on Burrough. He received it from Kevin Ring. It’s about William Burroughs, the locations of the Beat Generations and a found memorabilia.

“But back to the reality of City Lights in time and space. There might not be much to gather from the City [...]

Fallen Empire, the book

we meet in an italian restaurant on upper street, not because we’re all italians, just because it seems to be the only place open late enough to accommodate for the late arrival of alex and valentina, the couple behind “fallen empire” – each coming from a different part of london. earlier that day, alex has [...]

The book the “reaches the parts of Hackney Iain Sinclair doesn’t reach”

I found this book review on The Londonist:

You might think a book of short stories about redevelopment in Hackney would be a rough and tumble of Olympic gripes. You’d be wrong. As Stewart Home says on the cover quote, Acquired For Development By… “reaches the parts of Hackney Iain Sinclair doesn’t reach”. Instead, we [...]

The Olympic Park – review, by Rowan Moore on The Guardian

An article on the Olympic park by Rowan Moore on The Guardian 20/05/2012. There is mention of Iain and an article by Robert McFarlane about Ghost milk is linked.

Test centre news

Dear all, It has been a busy couple of months at Test Centre HQ, so here is the news. Tomorrow, Thursday 17th, we begin an 11-part weekly radio slot on Resonance FM. Every Thursday at 7pm we will be listening to and talking about words + sound + spoken word records, with plenty of new [...]