That Zweig memoir looks fascinating. Did you see this last year?
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Another great writer on this period is Arthur koestler, both his fiction and non-fiction. And thanks, that looks right up my street 
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Record Culture Magazine is back folks ! Issue 11 preorder available now!
Record Culture Magazine Issue 11, 2026.
Featuring Paul Takahashi, Nicolas Godin, Kiki Kudo, Jean Touitou, Frankie Teardrop, Jamie Tiller, Sound Metaphors, OKO DJ, Ariel Zetina, Fraser Cooke. As well as “Plant Bar,” a short story by Luke Jenner, and the visual feature “Eddie Ruscha: Sound / Waves”.
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I’ve just finished reading this. Loved it. If you imagine the kids from The Wire S4 go on a road trip, you’re 90% there.
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About halfway through this, thought I knew a fair bit about him… However didn’t realise just how far off the rails he went during the Sopranos particularly the later seasons, AWOL for days at a time doing all sorts. Talking Sopranos podcasts from memory alludes to him really being under pressure but nothing too specific, guess as they were friends and co-stars.
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Great essayist, essayists are my cup of tea
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What year is it? 
This is great to see, just copped…
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Has anyone read Ben Wardle’s book on Mark Hollis? Worth picking up?
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https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Islander/Chris-Blackwell/9781982172701
Really good, easy read
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Did this on audiobook and thought it was great, mad how many of the blitz kids went onto big things. Nice commentary on how Britain/London was in those days.
I also went to this the other night, (by the always excellent rock n roll book club for those London based) and looking forward to getting into it. Limited talk about acid house era hacienda which was good as I feel like I’ve heard all that tbh but a great story about meeting Rob Gretton properly under a hedge after being chased by and hiding from some Notts Forest hooligans at a man city away match.
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Just started F Forsyth ( after a couple of his later books which are ‘OK’) Day of the Jackal
Very good, not quite in Le Carre Orbit but v good
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Reading material for the next few night shifts and then holiday. Also have K-Punk: the Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher in the post.
This book is at once galvanising, horrifying, and educational.
The writing’s crystal clear which highlights so well the nuances and complexities of the process of history, the phenomenal cruelty we inflict on each other - and the deep wells of courage and kindness that keep us all from destroying ourselves.
Not an easy ready but important one, esp. in the febrile environment we find ourselves in currently.
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Indeed. The teaching and reading of history is needed more than ever.
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I did a module on holocaust literature for my MA a gazillion years ago, not surprisingly it stuck with me. We’re very keen to put the holocaust in the ‘exception’ box but it was a very modern event, powered by industrialisation, efficiency, stats and bureaucracy as much as hatred (see also Zone of Interest). And the echoes are still being heard in the Middle East if you ask me. Anyway, I’d like to read this as it’s something I think about quite a bit.
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I’m currently reading ‘The spy who came in from the cold’ for the first time. It’s really good.
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It’s a stone cold banger
