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From the esoteric to the sonic, tQ’s bookshelf revealed
In a new semi-regular series, Quietus writers and friends talk about the books they read for pleasure and the rituals and habits they keep to while reading, with Lara C. Cory, Frances Castle of Claypipe Music, and tQ Books Editor Robert Barry
Ashes to Ashes is the second of two books by Chris O'Leary to cover the songs of David Bowie, song by song. This volume takes us from 1976 to the end. The Quietus spoke to O'Leary about the project. The interview is followed by an extract from the book, about 'Sound and Vision'
Geraldine Snell's "non-fiction novella", overlove, is "concerned with love, boundaries, leaky jars and the female gaze in today's context of digital communication, millennial malaise and searching online for something 'more'." Read an exclusive extract below
Still looking for that last minute stocking filler? Marcel Theroux's An Unexpected Gift: Three Christmas Stories is one of the latest batch of small pamphlets from Rough Trade Books. Enjoy an exclusive extract below, entitled 'Hair and Angels"
Cited as an influence on Warren Ellis and True Detective, Eugene Thacker's philosophical investigations into the "unthinkable world" find new expression in his latest book for Repeater, Infinite Resignation. Here he talks to Michael Brooks about the horrors of philosophy, music, and film
With references galore to Courtney Love, Josh Homme, and Teddy Adorno, Adrian Harte's new book on Faith No More, Small Victories, gives you "pretty much everything you could ever possibly hope to know" about the band, says Jeremy Allen
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