Features Index

Quick Chats

• A Quick Chat With Alex Shakar
  – brilliant young American author discusses his first novel
• A Quick Chat With Alexei Sayle
  – Adam Vaughan talks to the veteran stand-up comedian
• A Quick Chat with Tahir Shah by Edmund Hardy
  – travel writer interviewed
• A Quick Chat with Vivien Kelly by The Richmond Review
  – new young Brit author interviewed
• A Quick Chat with Daniel Woodrell by Liz Rowlinson
  
  – Daniel Woodrell interviewed
• A Quick Chat with Pagan Kennedy by Polly Rance
  – Pagan Kennedy interviewed
• A Quick Chat with Christopher Priest by Graham Dickson
  – Christopher Priest interviewed
• A Quick Chat with James Ellroy by Scott Reder
  – a Dog’s life in Kansas City by our Kansas City Correspondent
• A Quick Chat with Iain M. Banks by The Richmond Review
  – Iain M. Banks interviewed.
• A Quick Chat with Eddie Bunker by The Richmond Review
  – Edward Bunker interviewed
• A Quick Chat with Jason Starr by Jon Mitchell
  – hot new crime writer interviewed

Features

• Vampire: George Bataille and the philosophy of vampirism
  – The madman jumped into their midst and pierced them with his eyes. “Whither is God?” he cried. “I shall tell you. We have killed him-you and I.”
• There’s No Joy in Deutschland
  – Bruce Gatenby on why everyone hates the Germans
• The Plateau of Humanity: Biennale 2001
  – Bruce Gatenby visits the Venice arts festival
• For Whom the Bell Rings by Liu Hong
  – new Chinese author Liu Hong visits the Han Shan Temple in search of poetry
• At the Creative Writing Workshop by Tom Bradley
  – ‘The grotesque little shit was taking notes. He was sucking it all in like rat poison, with an eager smile on his kisser. He was revising his story on the spot…’
• Further Hazards of the Writing Life by Bruce Gatenby
  – ‘…for better or worse, my life is in the hands of what I call “the Malicious Gods”…’
• The Literary Web by Jason Gurley
  – webzine editors interviewed
• Fouling the Nest by C.J.Schüler
  – ‘In Austria, any effort to promote an honest review of the country’s wartime history still arouses violent resentment…’
• An introduction to lifehouse by Pete Townshend
  – ‘Someone who used to be a really big rock star called Pete Townshend’ introduces his playscript lifehouse
• Jonestown by Robert Templer
  – The Jonestown massacre from twenty years on
• Imagining Vietnam by Robert Templer
  – Iconoclastic examination of modern Vietnam
• Aufstieg und Fall der Moderne by C.J.Schüler – an exhibition charting the rise and fall of modernism and including rarely-seen Nazi-era paintings stirs up controversy
• The Biographer: Artist or Vulture? by Vivien Allen
  – The role of the biographer today examined – by a noted biographer
• Secret Shame by Gordon Houghton – How self-harming became the central theme of Houghton’s first novel, The Dinner Party
• Fifty Years of Magnum by Russell Miller – Snapshot of life at the legendary photo agency
• The Furies of Irish Fiction by Julia O’Faolain – Examines the changing nature of the discontents which have traditionally formed the very best Irish writing
• Life in Dance by Darcey Bussell – top ballet dancer writes
• Or are You just Pleased to See Me by J. C. Herz – Virtual Spice Girl Lara Croft, beaten up, shot up and generally de(con)structed
• The Queen of Whale Cay by Kate Summerscale
  – Joe Carstairs, the fastest woman on water
• A Weekend Trip to Finland by Helena Mary Smith
  – travel article
• Istanbul by Helena Mary Smith
  – travel article
• “Call Me Dog” by Paul Duncan
  – a major Ellroy retrospective and interview
• Demon Dog Central – The Richmond Review’s shrine to the Demon Dog of American Letters
• The Sub-Definitive Ellroy on Ellroy ed. Steven Kelly
  – Assorted soundbites from the Demon Dog of American letters
• Teaching Creative Writing by Russell Celyn Jones
  – The state of the art.
• Trainspotters by Monika Maurer
  – the makers of Trainspotting interviewed.
• Little Boy Blue by Peter Walker
  – Edward Bunker Retrospective.