L’assommoir, Zola. Revisited
Lola didn’t feel like celebrating her birthday. “23 is such a boring age” would be what she would have said. Wanting to move to Peru to work in a primary school, she felt useless in […]
Literature
MelloMello: Averted Closure?
MelloMello is a grassroots music venue and down-to-earth cafe located near the ropewalks of Liverpool city centre on the corner of Slater Street and Parr Street, nearby to Wolstenholme Square. In recent years it has […]
I Write the Bee Sides…
Trawling junk shops, getting covered in chalk & charcoal, scavenging for a drum kit. These are probably not the usual activities of someone preparing for a book launch. But with seismic changes afoot (that’s right […]
Why is my taste better than yours? Ugly – The Aesthetics of Everything by Stephen Bayley from @GoodmanFiell
Ugly is a beautiful book. Glossy pages and colourful images make it a pleasant object to hold and behold. It has been written by Stephen Bayley, previously chief executive of the London Design Museum, to […]