Beg to differ. Everything we know about Johnson has prepared us for how boring this memoir is. He's a shallow cocksure blusterfuck, a callous unprincipled mediocrity, and a really rotten writer.
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Alyson Hunter's mesmerising 'Bar at the Colony Room Club' (1998) among other images of this legendary dive (if a dive can be upstairs) www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
The 2024 Goldsmith Prize shortlist. Congratulations to all authors and publishers. I've read three of the six and will certainly read the others if and when I get the chance.
Good to see the Goldsmiths Prize arriving on Bluesky - do give them a follow.
Former Tory foghorn bigot Jonathan Gullis unable to find work as a schoolteacher on account of his being former Tory foghorn bigot Jonathan Gullis. www.google.com/search?q=lau...
"Have I *read* it? I couldn't even *unwrap* it." (with thanks to Max Wall)
This is so wonderful - do watch. At yesterday's rain-soaked Brooklyn Book Fair in New York, members of the public were invited to read extracts from some of the fine books published by Sagging Meniscus Press, and did so, and beautifully. Other book festivals please copy! youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Readings of (mostly) Sagging Meniscus books made by visitors to the Sagging Meniscus booth at the Brooklyn Book Festival, September 29th 2024.