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Smoke Signals: Jude Rogers On The State Of Independent Publishing

As Quietus writer Jude Rogers prepares to publish an anthology of London writing, she looks at the changing issues facing independent publishers since she founded Smoke magazine a decade ago

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Behold! August’s Quietus Comics Round Up Column

Mat Colegate, Aug Stone, and Reggie Chamberlain-King present the best comics they've read this summer

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Beyond Manu Chao: The Charmed Life Of Peter Culshaw

To mark the release of his new book, Clandestino: in Search of Manu Chao, Adrian Dannatt considers the life, not of his subject but of Peter Culshaw himself

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Technology Can’t Fight Back: Untangling The Web With Aleks Krotoski

Emily Bick speaks to the writer, broadcaster and social psychologist about her new book, Untangling the Web, the perceived influence of the internet on our lives and, perhaps more importantly, vice versa

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Damn Dirty Japes: Planet Of The Apes (1963) Revisited

Fifty years after its initial publication - and seven ever-dwindling feature films later - Eli Lee examines Pierre Boulle's classic inversion sci-fi novel and asks if the questions it poses are still relevant today

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Bobby Parker Loses The Plot: Review By Fire

Upon finding the sole surviving manuscript of his first and only novel, poet Bobby Parker undertakes a ritual exorcism of his demons

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99% Perspiration: Recommended Summer Reading

With contributions from Ned Beauman, Emily Berry and Joe Dunthorne, Nathalie Olah rounds up recommendations from authors, publishers, poets and editors for an impressive list of not-so-well-trodden holiday reading

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For Entertainment Purposes: An Interview With Sheila Heti

Emily Berry speaks to the Canadian author about her latest novel, How Should A Person Be?, criticism and praise for her work and the role of shame in her writing

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Reality Check: An Encomium For The “Dying” Novel

Having heard, a thousand times or more, that the novel is a dead or dying art Thomas Brewster considers just how true that war cry is and where contemporary fiction might or must go from here

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David R. Morgan: Addicted To Plagiarism

Bobby Parker speaks to David Morgan - perhaps the most prolific poetry plagiarist of all time - about his work (and "his work"), looking to understand but left feeling a little like the hapless Clarice Starling

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24 Hour Clinic: The Art Of The Poetry Anthology

Kit Caless gets to grips with Clinic III, the latest anthology from the South London poetry platform, and speaks to its editors about their selection process and the state of contemporary poetry

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Myth Congeniality: John Gray Interviewed

Nick Talbot (aka Gravenhurst) talks to contemporary thinker and Quietus hero John Gray about The Silence Of Animals, Straw Dogs and the failures of humanism

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Love & Marbles: Gilbert Hernandez Interviewed

DJ and comics artist Sina Sparrow talks to Gilbert Hernandez about comics, sexuality, and his new book Marble Season

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State Of The Union: An Interview With Irvine Welsh

The Trainspotting author talks Filth, Porno, post-UK politics, and how he should have cut Margaret Thatcher in on his royalties in an interview at the Stoke Newington Literary Festival

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B.S. Johnson & The Amniotic Fluid Of Words

In a second piece to mark the 80th anniversary of the celebrated author's birth - and fortieth of his death - Daniel Fraser considers the relationship between writer and reader and the tyranny of reason in Johnson's work

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All That Is: James Salter And The Big Time

Stuart Evers considers, and discusses with the much underrated American author, the apparent succeses and failings of his latest novel, All That Is, and why, only now, he has made it to the mainstream

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Where in the World is Quorum? On The Poetry Of William Fuller

Maya Osborne examines the contrasting roles of the pastoral and contributions of Microsoft Word in the American poet's newest collection

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Faintly Transcendental: On The Poetry Of Graham Foust

Scrutinising the influences, from time and place to Joy Division, and stylistic idiosyncrasies which together make up the work of this ambitious American poet, Alex Niven provides a guide for the Foust-uninitiated

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Cruel Britannia: Ian Cobain Interviewed

Nathalie Olah speaks to the author about his new book - Cruel Britannia - political secrecy, prison camps in London and Guantanamo and the inevitable hostile reaction to investigative journalism

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Adam Thirlwell On The Great Gatsby

In our final short visit to West Egg before the release of Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby, Adam Thrilwell, author of Kapow! and Granta Best Young British Novelist, discusses the power of glamour in Fitzgerald's novel

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Superflous Fetishisation: Ned Beauman On The Great Gatsby

In the first of a short series of vignettes commissioned to mark the release of Baz Lurhman's The Great Gatsby, Ned Beauman - author of the Man Booker Prize longlisted The Teleportation Accident - recalls a curious summer spent in New York doing 'Gatsby stuff'

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Smoke Signals: Jude Rogers On The State Of Independent Publishing

Behold! August’s Quietus Comics Round Up Column

Beyond Manu Chao: The Charmed Life Of Peter Culshaw

Technology Can’t Fight Back: Untangling The Web With Aleks Krotoski

Damn Dirty Japes: Planet Of The Apes (1963) Revisited

Bobby Parker Loses The Plot: Review By Fire

99% Perspiration: Recommended Summer Reading

For Entertainment Purposes: An Interview With Sheila Heti

Reality Check: An Encomium For The “Dying” Novel

David R. Morgan: Addicted To Plagiarism

24 Hour Clinic: The Art Of The Poetry Anthology

Myth Congeniality: John Gray Interviewed

Love & Marbles: Gilbert Hernandez Interviewed

State Of The Union: An Interview With Irvine Welsh

B.S. Johnson & The Amniotic Fluid Of Words

All That Is: James Salter And The Big Time

Where in the World is Quorum? On The Poetry Of William Fuller

Faintly Transcendental: On The Poetry Of Graham Foust

Cruel Britannia: Ian Cobain Interviewed

Adam Thirlwell On The Great Gatsby

Superflous Fetishisation: Ned Beauman On The Great Gatsby

Away From Prying Eyes: Dan Richards’ Holloway

Aiming For Epic: Anne Carson’s Red Doc> Reviewed

Restraint, Dear Boy: Emily Berry Interviewed By Sam Riviere

Behold! May’s Quietus Comics Round Up Column

Private Voyeuristic Pleasures: The Letters And Life Of Kurt Vonnegut

Making Idiots Of Us All: Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle (1963) Revistied

Karl Ove Knausgaard: Between Meaning and Nothingness

Nothing New For Trash Like You: On Harmony Korine’s Debut Novel

A Spy In The House Of Rumour: Jake Arnott Interviewed

All My Friends: On Lars Iyer’s Trilogy

BROKEN SPINES: A Quietus Book Column

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