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In Conversation

Peer Review: Stephen Pastel Interviews David Keenan… And Vice Versa

Ahead of the release of the This Is Memorial Device album, based on the play, which was in turn based on the novel, musician Stephen Pastel and writer David Keenan interview one another, without any interference from us
Black Sky Thinking

Corrugated Iron: Bill Drummond On David Keenan, John Higgs And The 1960s

Bill Drummond writes on two new books, David Keenan's Industry Of Magic & Light and John Higgs' Love And Let Die, as well as his love of corrugated iron and the end of the 1960s
Low Culture Essay

By All That Is Holy: David Keenan On Arthur C Clarke’s Mysterious World

In our monthly subscriber's only essay, author David Keenan traces most of his adult obsessions back to a mind-expanding book, gifted to him by his Dad
Baker's Dozen

Songs Of Praise: David Keenan’s Baker’s Dozen

Jennifer Lucy Allan hears about high-fiving Edgar Froese, frightening the neighbours, disavowing the devil and how Scottish author David Keenan is all about saying yes. Portrait by Heather Leigh.
Black Sky Thinking

In Defence Of Perry Como, By David Keenan

Write Perry Como off as a lesser Sinatra at your peril when David Keenan is around. Here, the author of For The Good Times writes of how as a boy late night sessions listen to Como with his father shaped his sense of masculinity and self
Books

The Quietus’ Top 40 Books About Music

From New Orleans rap to noughties New York rock, via krautrock, jazz, riot grrrl and the story of political pop, we asked Quietus contributors to pick out forty of the finest music books ever written
A Quietus Interview

Coil Interview & Extract From England’s Hidden Reverse

The American writer Derek de Koff got in touch with us recently to offer us this rarely seen or read Coil interview (with John Balance and Peter Christopherson) from 2001. And we've also got a long extract from David Keenan's excellent England's Hidden Reverse on the narcotic and artistic influences on Love's Secret Doman. Thanks to Luke Cartledge & Mark Pilkington

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