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'Here the band were asking one of life’s great questions. “We do not suffer by accident,” Jane Austen wrote in Pride And Prejudice. “But why?” wondered Napalm Death in response.' You Suffer: How A One Second-Long Song Represents The Age Of Anxiety https://t.co/lLfWQRPr6Y https://t.co/anqBIi6vEt

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'Chapman’s main thesis boils down to: we read and write dystopias not to avert them, but to see how low they could go' In Jake Chapman's re-telling of 1984 for @urbanomicdotcom, he turns his attention to the hell of contemporary society http://tquiet.us/JCOrwell https://t.co/e4WgfVLu1w

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"I’m not sure if Fassbinder had a “private life”. Once you start putting what is ostensibly private into the public sphere, all kinds of unintended consequences may ensue" Ian Penman On Rainer Werner Fassbinder https://t.co/8YWzpgax26 @FitzcarraldoEds https://t.co/qX9ciyGYxz

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'The Deptford Trilogy (1970-75) plots the complex course events which follow the impact made by a stray snowball thrown during the course of the narrator’s early childhood...' Robertson Davies, Canada's greatest author? - In Praise of the Longer Novel https://t.co/B309qC5pGT https://t.co/av2q0O95Df

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"I went to see Tierra Whack in concert a couple of years ago and I got her to sign my copy of Green Eggs And Ham by Dr Seuss, which was like a high point in my life. I just felt like she'd get it." @Andybebop on Tierra Whack - Whack World http://tquiet.us/AB13 https://t.co/QVHqlVVOSJ

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'Winslow has routinely set standards so far ahead of most other writers on their best days that expectations for his books are set at a point way past the end of most of the usual scales' @donwinslow - City On Fire Autumn Crime Fiction https://t.co/PZWCDtkRto @HarperCollins https://t.co/hivfMgL4D3

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'Family archive material sits alongside behind-the-scenes footage and Eilish’s life in between, to present an intimate portrait of a young star and the rapid rise of her fame.' The World’s A Little Blurry And The Body in Pain http://tquiet.us/BEilish @AppleTV @rjcutler https://t.co/HBIBeBEGhP

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'Underground Resistance’s tactical speculation and choreographed, model-scaled warfare became a weapon for the Black counterculture of Detroit to strategise and mobilise.' Underground Resistance: Electronic Warfare For The Sonic Revolutions https://t.co/6DQtI7GPv4 https://t.co/xnsYqOnPmL

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'A 2nd outing in the Kentucky hollers for his taciturn, troubled, perennially off-duty military policeman Mick Hardin, and it’s an even better book than the previous instalment' @chris_offutt - Shifty’s Boys - Autumn Crime Fiction https://t.co/PZWCDt3gBQ @GrovePressUK https://t.co/nw046yv9ZS

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'The Passenger feels like a clearing house for unaffiliated passages and characters that McCarthy couldn’t bear to bury. The warmth and sorrow he wants to convey shine through only weakly' Unsalvageable Parts: Diving Into The Wreck With Cormac McCarthy https://t.co/0WhWY2xAoW https://t.co/9VxWJ2RVjE