Bookkake on the BBC
Bokkake’s publisher, James Bridle (me), was on BBC Radio’s Pods and Blogs last week, for a books special. We talked about publishing, ebooks and the future, alongside a number of other interesting...
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Lovely, lovely books: some recent book design triumphs
Yesterday I got this in the post: Farrar Strauss Giroux’s beautiful new box set edition of Roberto Bolano’s acclaimed 2666, which I’m very much looking forward to reading. Isn’t it great? I wish more...
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Kafka Las Vegas
Hat tip to Mike for pointing out these awesome and slightly disturbing ads for for Filigranes, a Belgian booksellers (more after the jump). The series reimagines Kafka’s Metamorphosis as a series of...
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London Unexpurgated
I have a number of weaknesses. Some of them, in no particular order are: dirty books (obviously), old London guidebooks (of which I have many) and the New English Library. The old NEL was a wonderful...
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The Little Red Schoolbook
“Nearly all the changes in which you’re allowed to participate are in things which aren’t very important. The real and difficult changes are those which give more and more people power to decide more...
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Mortmere: Upward, Isherwood, and the English horror of the countryside
When I wrote about Edward Upward a few weeks ago, I promised I’d go on to report on the mysterious Montmere Stories he wrote with Christoper Isherwood. I’m pleased to say that I shall now do so. To...
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No place for a paranoid: RIPA, Abbie Hoffman, and other books of bomb-making
It’s a story you’ll struggle to find on any mainstream news service, so thank goodness that technologists tend to be generally liberal and sane as well as technologically knowledgeable and proficient....
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The Last Tuesday Society Shop: Now with added Bookkake
If you are unaware of the existence of the fine and upstanding Last Tuesday Society, then you are probably innocently yet regretfully unaware that they recently opened a shop in Cambridge Heath,...
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