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March 22, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Authors I Admire: # 15 Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway is one of the great voices of American literature. His raw, gritty take on life was developed through his work as a journalist and war correspondent and his short stories and novels are filled with his, now widely mimicked, take on minimalism and realism. Hemingway cloaked emotional drama in his stories by using […]Archive
February 27, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Authors I Admire: # 14 Nik Cohn
It’s hard naming favourite music writers, like being forced to pick a favourite band I guess. You don’t always want to listen to The Beatles or much as Kendrick Lamar might take your fancy you can’t just listen to only that. It’s the same with great writers – you get different things from different people. […]Archive
October 10, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Clive James: Play All – A Bingewatcher’s Notebook
Play All: A Bingewatcher’s Notebook Clive James Yale University Press Writing about television isn’t easy – it’s easier now because TV is better: more people are invested in shows that have our attention in a way the movies used to. It’s easier now too because of Clive James. He’s left his mark on poetry and […]Archive
August 23, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 29 – Sylvie Simmons
Welcome to episode 29 of Sweetman Podcast brought to you by Phantom Billstickers. This one is a chat with Sylvie Simmons – that’s Sylvie Simmons the music writer, Leonard Cohen biographer and MOJO staff writer, legendary rock writer who was on the tour bus with Black Sabbath and Van Halen, who published the first interview […]Archive
June 2, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Authors I Admire: # 13 Neil LaBute
You might normally find an appreciation of Neil LaBute under film or theatre – rather than discussion of him as an author. Actually, you might not find a written appreciation of Neil LaBute anywhere…his work hardly ever ends happily, barely starts out that way and usually gets toughest in the middle. He works without including […]Archive
April 9, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Greil Marcus: The History of Rock’n’Roll in Ten Songs
The History of Rock’n’Roll in Ten Songs Greil Marcus Yale University Press T-Bone Burnett is quoted, in this book, “Listen, the story of the United States is this: One kid, without anything, walks out of his house, down the road, with nothing but a guitar and conquers the world.” It’s a good quote – but […]Archive
September 22, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Authors I Admire: # 12 Greil Marcus
I’m currently halfway through a book called The History of Rock’n’Roll in Ten Songs – it’s the latest (brand new) book from Greil Marcus. Impossible to chart rock’n’roll’s history through ten songs you say. Well, not if you’re Greil Marcus. Fortunately for him (and us) no one else is Greil Marcus. There is only one […]Archive
September 21, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Authors I Admire: # 11 Will Eaves
I’ve never read a book like Will Eaves’ The Absent Therapist. I didn’t know anything about the guy before I read it – still don’t know much after. But I know he’s an author I admire. I know that much. And I know that his sick, sinister, hilarious world is one I want to visit […]Archive
September 18, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Authors I Admire: #10 Anthony Loyd
“War” opined Boy George, “is stupid. And people”, he went on to say, “are stupid”. It was the early 1980s and there was a naivety in those lyrics that made them seem almost cute, particularly with the Day-Glo pop beat in the background. Sometimes the simplest, most obvious statements have a resonance – and for […]Archive
September 17, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Authors I Admire: #9 Elmore Leonard
It’s just gone by – the anniversary of Elmore Leonard’s death, just the other week. A reminder. Shit he was great. And I thought most about Leonard in terms of his work ethic – the work too, sure. But that was a result of the ethic, of turning up and hitting those keys. Leonard’s last […]Archive
September 17, 2014 by Simon Sweetman