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Brutalists
Brutalism is a literary movement formed in 2006 by three writers from the north of England (Tony O'Neill, Adelle Stripe and Ben Myers). The Brutalists are affiliated with the Offbeat generation, a loose association of like-minded writers working across different styles but united by their opposition to a mainstream publishing industry driven by marketing departments. The movement may have been the first literary movement to be launched via the social networking site Myspace. Brutalist works include ''Digging the Vein'', ''Down and Out on Murder Mile'', ''Seizure Wet Dreams'', and ''Songs from the Shooting Gallery'' by Tony O'Neill, ''Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid'' and ''Cigarettes in Bed'' by Adelle Stripe, and ''The Book of Fuck'', '' Richard: A Novel'' and ''Pig Iron'' by Ben Myers. Their debut publication ''Nowhere Fast'' was released as a chapbook on Captains of Industry Press in 2007. Brutalism 2 ''Cheap Thrills'' was released in summer 2009 as part of Mineshaft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony O'Neill
Tony O'Neill (born 1978, Blackburn, Lancashire) is an English writer based in New York. A one-time musician with Kenickie (1997–98), Marc Almond (1997–98), The Brian Jonestown Massacre (1999) and Kelli Ali (2001–04), O'Neill is also the author of several books including ''Digging the Vein'' (2006), ''Down and Out on Murder Mile'' (2008) and ''Sick City'' (2010). Literary career ''Digging the Vein'' was a novel based on O'Neill's years as a heroin and crack addict as well as his experiences in the music industry, while the sequel, ''Down and Out on Murder Mile'' was released by Harper Perennial as a mass market paperback in November 2008. ''Sick City'' was released by Harper Perennial in July 2010. The plot revolves around two heroin addicts who try to sell a legendary sex tape starring Sharon Tate. The book earned praise from Barry Gifford, Sebastian Horsley, and Tom McCarthy among others. In 2012 the novel was optioned for the screen by screenwriter Jayson Rothwe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adelle Stripe
Adelle Stripe (born 1976) is an English writer and journalist. Work Stripe's writing is rooted in the non-fiction novel form and explores working-class culture, untold histories of Northern England, popular music, and small-town life. ''Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile'', her debut novel, was based on the life and work of Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar. The novel was shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize and the Portico Prize. A stage adaptation by Freedom Studios and screenwriter Lisa Holdsworth toured across Yorkshire in 2019. ''Ten Thousand Apologies'' is her recent biography of cult UK band Fat White Family. It is a collaborative work with lead singer Lias Saoudi. The book traces the group's origins from working-class Huddersfield to Algeria, via sectarian Northern Ireland and the squats of south London. Writing in the ''Observer'', Miranda Sawyer described it as a 'bleak, funny and compelling biography.' As a journalist, Stripe has written features on theatre, film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Myers
Benjamin Myers (born January 1976) is an English writer and journalist. Early life Myers grew up in Belmont, County Durham, and was a pupil at the estate's local comprehensive school where he become interested in reading and skateboarding. Myers attended his first concert in Durham in March 1990, when he was fourteen. Headlined by Steadfast, it led to him forming the punk rock band Sour Face the next year. The band quickly became involved in the Durham hardcore punk scene, alongside Steadfast, False Face and XdisciplineX. Despite being one of the few bands in the scene that was not straight edge, Sour Face became the mascots of the scene, with their third performance seeing them open for NOFX. Voorhees' first performance was opening for Sour Face in September 1991. As a teenager Myers began writing for British weekly ''Melody Maker''. In 1997 he became their staff writer while residing in the Oval Mansions squat for several years. In 2011 he published an article, about his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Offbeat Generation
The Offbeat generation was a loose association of like-minded writers working across different styles but united by their opposition to a mainstream publishing industry driven by marketing departments. The term—coined by Andrew Gallix in '' 3:AM Magazine'' in February 2006—was a pun on the Beat Generation but more likely to be associated with the Chemical generation immediately before it (who were anthologised at the ''Repetitive Beat Generation'' also). In August 2007 ''Arena'' wrote of them: "Young, untamed, good-looking and as influenced by punk rock as they are by Proust, a new wave of loosely-linked writers dubbed The Off-Beat Generation have been blitzing the net with stories and poems via MySpace and supportive sites such as ''3:AM Magazine'' to organise events and gain publicity." The ''Arena'' article cited Tony O'Neill, Travis Jeppesen and Tao Lin as its key members. A piece on ''The Guardian'' website discussed possible overlaps with the Brutalists. According ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mineshaft Magazine
''Mineshaft'' is an independent international art magazine launched in 1999 by Everett Rand and Gioia Palmieri in Guilford, Vermont. Initially focusing on poetry and literature, the magazine began to publish comics after Robert Crumb became a contributor in 2000. The newsblog at ''The Guardian'' refers to ''Mineshafts website as a source to find out more about Crumb's latest work. History ''Mineshaft'' was the idea of Everett Rand who was inspired by his friendship and correspondence with Irving Stettner, who published the legendary underground magazine, ''Stroker'', which featured contributions from Henry Miller and Paul Bowles. The name for the magazine came from Rand's favorite bar in La Paz, Bolivia where he and co-editor, Gioia Palmieri, lived in the early 1990s. The first issue featured a drawing by Stettner. After issue #4, Rand wrote to Robert Crumb who responded by sending a packet of sketchbook drawings. After issue #5, Crumb designed logos for the magazine which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literary Movement
Literary movements are a way to divide literature into categories of similar philosophical, topical, or aesthetic features, as opposed to divisions by genre or period. Like other categorizations, literary movements provide language for comparing and discussing literary works. These terms are helpful for curricula or anthologies. Some of these movements (such as Dada and Beat) were defined by the members themselves, while other terms (for example, the metaphysical poets) emerged decades or centuries after the periods in question. Further, some movements are well defined and distinct, while others, like expressionism, are nebulous and overlap with other definitions. Because of these differences, literary movements are often a point of contention between scholars. List This is a list of modern literary movements: that is, movements after the Renaissance. Ordering is approximate, as there is considerable overlap. References {{reflist Movements Movement may refer to: Common use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Novel
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish it fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Crumb
Robert Dennis Crumb (; born August 30, 1943) is an American cartoonist and musician who often signs his work R. Crumb. His work displays a nostalgia for American folk culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and satire of contemporary American culture. Crumb is a prolific artist and contributed to many of the seminal works of the underground comix movement in the 1960s, including being a founder of the first successful underground comix publication, ''Zap Comix'', contributing to all 16 issues. He was additionally contributing to the ''East Village Other'' and many other publications, including a variety of one-off and anthology comics. During this time, inspired by psychedelics and cartoons from the 1920s and 1930s, he introduced a wide variety of characters that became extremely popular, including countercultural icons Fritz the Cat and Mr. Natural, and the images from his '' Keep On Truckin''' strip. Sexual themes abounded in all these projects, often shading ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Bukowski
Henry Charles Bukowski ( ; born Heinrich Karl Bukowski, ; August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was a German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambience of his adopted home city of Los Angeles. Bukowski's work addresses the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women, and the drudgery of work. The FBI kept a file on him as a result of his column '' Notes of a Dirty Old Man'' in the LA underground newspaper ''Open City''. Bukowski published extensively in small literary magazines and with small presses beginning in the early 1940s and continuing on through the early 1990s. He wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories and six novels, eventually publishing over sixty books during the course of his career. Some of these works include his ''Poems Written Before Jumping Out of an 8 Story Window'', published by his friend and fellow poet Charles Potts, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
