From the monthly archives:

June 2011

Jarvis Cocker on Writing

by Dan on June 30, 2011

Jarvis Cocker talks to Faber Publishing Director Lee Brackstone about songwriting and the publication of Mother, Brother, Lover, his first collection of lyrics:

Mother, Brother, Lover will be published by Faber in October.

(via Largehearted Boy)

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When Movies Mattered | The Marketplace of Ideas

by Dan on June 29, 2011

Film critic Dave Kehr discusses the cinema of the 1970′s and his book When Movies Mattered: Reviews from a Transformative Decade with Colin Marshall for The Marketplace of Ideas podcast:

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Backlit | Ingrid Paulson

June 29, 2011

Toronto-based designer Ingrid Paulson has designed these four covers for a new paperback reprint series called ‘Backlit’ to be published by ECW Press this fall. Lovely stuff. Tweet

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Midweek Miscellany

June 29, 2011

Cartoonist and illustrator Tom Gauld chats with the Angry Robot blog: I find [robots] almost endlessly interesting. There is tragedy in their place between sentient beings and disposable products. And … they are much easier to draw than real people. I’m hoping to interview Tom here as well sometime soon (just as soon as I [...]

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The Prince & The Sea | Emily Carroll

June 28, 2011

I loved last year’s spooky His Face All Red, and now cartoonist Emily Carroll has just posted a new, similarly atmospheric strip called The Prince & The Sea. Carroll recently won the Joe Shuster Award for ‘Outstanding Webcomics Creator.’ Tweet

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