From the esoteric to the sonic, tQ’s bookshelf revealed
For thirty years, Damon Murray and Stephen Sorrell of Fuel Design have been publishing strange and unusual books about sweet wrappers and Soviet bus stops by the likes of Jonny Trunk, Owen Hatherley, Tracey Emin, and the Chapman Brothers. They talk to Nilgin Yusuf about plane crashes and independent publishing
As a child, Katie Goh was obsessed with the end of the world. In their new book, The End, Goh explores this fascination through the disaster genre to ask: why do we turn to fictional crises in books, TV and films to make sense of our real life social, economic and political disasters?
In 1999 Warren Ellis watched Nina Simone play live at Meltdown. After the show ended he rushed on stage and carefully rescued her chewing gum in a towel from where she'd stuck it to her piano. His new book, sparked off by this incident, is about the alchemy that produces art, obsessiveness and memory