On Finding Books Again
Although reading has been semi-present during what you could call my formative years, it is only in the past 6-12 months that I’m finding my interest has revived to the level it was at when I was younger. As a child, reading was quite probably my favourite thing to do and the 13 year old...
Pan African gazette – Chimurenga Chronic out now @Chronic_News
The Chimurenga Chronic is a pan-African gazette available online or in print. The latest edition consists of a 48 page magazine and a 40 page book review magazine and features writing, art and photography. Based in South Africa the Chimunrenga Chronic includes contributions from around the world, including work by Jean-Pierre Bekolo, Mahmood Mamdani and Niq Mhlongo. Many...
London Underground’s logo refashioned by 100 contemporary artists @art_books_
The London Underground symbol is without doubt one of the world’s great logos. It is now much-loved and imitated, but has adorned the London Tube system since 1908. Originally, as designed by Charles Sharland the red circle was a fully enclosed red disc. Redesigned by Edward Johnson in the early 1920s the bullseye lost its...
All Da Kings R Dead: a monthly exhibition series by Kevin Morosky
Kevin Morosky releases ‘Walking’ today, the third story from All Da Kings R Dead, which sees him explore the beautiful messiness of love and relationships through a year-long series of monthly online exhibitions. “The fairies are too fat to fly, and bands now make them dance. The dragons are depressed. Happy endings are a myth....
An Idea – An Extract from Dogtooth Chronicals
AN IDEA Wolfgang, Dreamscape Beneath my feet the cold ground is hardened. There were ridges ploughed into the Earth long ago, when it was soft and giving. Now it is as concrete, desperate to trip me and crunch on my bones. I see a figure in the distance. I pray a gentleman, stood solitary in...
Indie books and ebooks – new releases
Here are some of the many new releases that have recently been independently published. Hollywood Buckaroo Hollywood Buckaroo tells the improbable and unintentional coming of age of Sander Sanderson, whose filmmaking aspirations are in the toilet after the death of his father, a successful Hollywood plumber. Unable to grieve for his dad and face running...
Whodunit140?! Follow the first great Twitter novel in 140 character @flaneurzine
Whodunit140 is the world’s first great detective novel written for Twitter. The novel is written daily and appears on Twitter first. The previous episodes have been repeated here for you to catch up with the story. To follow the novel in realtime as it is written just follow @FLANEURZINE on Twitter. Tweets have the hashtag...
Mulatto Image in James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and Jessie Fauset’s Plum Bun