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From the esoteric to the sonic, tQ’s bookshelf revealed
In the first instalment of his new column on contemporary poetry (Poetry Column), Sam Riviere examines - via Sontag, Calvino and the convoluted nature of the 'I' - the work of Norwegian poet, artist and possible anti-Knausgård, Audun Mortensen. (Photograph by Václav Jedlička)
Dale Lately speaks to novelist, poet, slam-winning hat-wearer and winner of the Guardian's Not The Booker Prize 2014, Simon Sylvester about nomadic existence, writing from and outside of experience and the history of storytelling
Elena Dolcini speaks to the editor of the first volume of the Social Life of The Record series — Everybody Knows This is Nowhere — the companion publication an exhibition exploring the relationship between art and music and geography, particularly focused on New Zealand identity about desperation, dislocation, Neil Young and the perils of immediacy
Ian Johnston sits down with James Ellroy, veteran and pioneer of contemporary crime fiction, non-fiction and the blurring of those lines — the Demon Dog of American literature — to talk about the glossed-over injustice of Japanese-American internment in World War II, expanding Los Angeles across an entire world and his new novel, Perfidia
In an extract from an essay taken from his co-authored collection with Lee Rourke, Trying to Fit a Number to a Name, Tim Burrows discusses the culturally (re)enforced and self-fulfilling stereotypes of the TOWIE Essex and the 'archetypal' UKIP-supporting Essex Man via Samuel Beckett, Wilko Johnson and Mike Leigh
Dale Lately submerges himself in the world of Austin Collings' The Myth of Brilliant Summers — a literary funeral pyre for rose-tinted spectacles of youth spent and misspent in the North —a once-real universe rendered in underpasses, morning hues and uneven teeth
Following the release of his new book, It's Too Late to Die Young Now, Andrew Mueller sits down with erstwhile colleague and renowned monocle-wearer David Stubbs to discuss Mueller's life in music journalism, a shared history at Melody Maker, how Straitjacket Fits changed his life forever and the changing face of the music press
Stephanie Boland sits down with the veteran writer and filmmaker to discuss the life-changing effects of the London Overground, the apparent death of the novel, the relationship between cinema and architecture, and putting together his new book - 70x70. Unlicensed Preaching: A Life Unpacked In 70 Films
Dan Richards speaks to Radiohead and Thom Yorke artworker, Holloway collaborator, friend and fellow hedge enthusiast Stanley Donwood about the blurred lines between sleeping and waking life, keeping demons out of his house and the big red non-spiders on the front of his new book, Humor
Sean Kitching speaks to horror novelist Adam Nevill about victim misogyny in horror films, picking apart the myths of history's notorious psychopaths in his latest book, No One Gets Out Alive, the literary brilliance of True Detective and not being the British Stephen King
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