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From the esoteric to the sonic, tQ’s bookshelf revealed
Before *Blade Runner* was a film by Ridley Scott, it was the title of a movie treatment by William Burroughs. Before that, it was a novel by Alan E. Nourse. As the Burroughs book gets re-issued by Tangerine Press, Richie Troughton unfurls the whole tale
Ahead of the publication of his new collection of short stories, *Endland*, artist, writer and Artistic Director of Forced Entertainment, Tim Etchells, talks to Jennifer Hodgson about class, culture, dissonant languages, staying provincial and writing against good taste
In an exclusive extract from his new book, *Chamber Music: About the Wu-Tang (in 36 Pieces)*, Will Ashon discusses re-referentiality, Wu-slang, and "one of the finest musical evocations ever recorded of the sensation of being baked"
Following the release of his ninth novel, *The Reddening*, on Halloween, Sean Kitching talks to the three times August Derleth Award winning author about moving to his own imprint, the relationship between folk music and horror and the influence of South Devon’s landscape on his new book
Agnès Gayraud makes pop music under the name La Féline but she is also a philosopher, and her latest book The Dialectic of Pop, newly published by Urbanomic, explores the theory behind the music we love. She talks to David McKenna about Adorno, Hegel, and writing pop songs inspired by science fiction
Michael Hollingshead was the man who first gave LSD to Timothy Leary – and by his own account, also to a host of other celebrities, from Paul McCartney to Roman Polanski and Charles Mingus. But was there a darker side to the countercultural legend? Andy Roberts' new book digs deeper
In an exclusive extract from his book, The Bad Trip: Dark Omens, New Worlds and the End of the Sixties, out now from Icon Books, James Riley explores Peter Whitehead's film project The Fall plus what happened to this chicken in the Judson Memorial Church
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