Two great websites
Two great sites arrive in my inbox this evening:
Vitro Nasu is a blog that manages to mention Simone De Beauvoir, David Bowie and Simone Weil in the first three posts I mention. A refreshingly straightforward approach, offering biographical nuggets and links about these fascinating people and many more.
Fantastic Metropolis is a site I’m going to be spending quite a lot of time exploring over the next few days - beautifully laid out, it’s a books magazine of deeply intelligent interviews, reviews and so forth put together by an editorial board that includes Michael Moorcock and Zoran ?ivkovic. It’s so heartening to discover new sites like this out there.
Best of all, there’s this sterling J.G. Ballard anecdote from contributor Neddal Ayad’s Appreciated in 2004 list: “The Drowned World was interesting, but didn’t really grab me. Crash grabs you and won’t let go. It’s amazing how many times Ballard fits the words, “pubis,” “perinaeum,” “rictus,” and “mucosal” into a 220-odd page book. I borrowed the book from the library and found a lone pubic hair between pages 167 and 168. I don’t know if the person was using the pubic hair as a bookmark of sorts or if it as the result of something more sticky. I don’t really want to know, but it did strike me as entirely appropriate.”
Other Splinters posts of interest:
- Will Self Blog
- Chavez Makes Chomsky A Bestseller Again
- JG Ballard: Kingdom Come
- Seán Harnett: Aisling Ltd
- "Has it got Al-Qaeda in it?"
