Tag Archive: books

Sep 21

Studies in Criticism… or books versus trade

This essay looks at whether book learning or trade learning is better for a critic. Actually, it turns out that neither of the two is what makes a critic great. When I was an undergraduate at uni, from 1999 until 2002, editing and professional writing was fairly well at its peak in terms of tertiary offerings. …

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Dec 14

Get your pre-order on: Books of metal & cinema

Bazillion Points Books is a rare breed of publisher. Rare because every single thing they publish, I want. They are the guys who produced Hellbent for Cooking, Swedish Deathmetal, Only Death is Real, and many others. And so, cruising through their site this morning, scouting for new titles to maybe pick up, I spotted the two …

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Jul 25

Mainstreaming Sex: The sexualization of Western culture. Part Three.

Finally, you are all yelling – she’s finished the book! Indeed I have and it’s some cause for celebration. Here is the final round of comments and notes about my thinking centred on the final chapter in Feona Attwood‘s Mainstreaming Sex; once the review itself has been finalised, I’ll post that up here in its …

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Nov 24

Sex Mook now on Amazon

Well I was surprised as hell to see that the Sex Mook, an anthology in which I was published last year, is now available on Amazon! I’d got a lot of good feedback on the piece that I wrote for this sterling little work (published by Vignette Press, btw, who do great literary things); in …

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