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May 3, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Authors I Admire: # 16 Willy Vlautin

In 2012 I was on holiday in San Francisco and I stumbled upon a reading at the famous City Lights bookstore. Well, we were visiting the store, checking it out when I saw a flyer advertising the reading. We were back there later that week. Willy Vlautin was there as a friend of the main act, […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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September 17, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Authors I Admire: #8 Tom Robbins

“’Magnificent!’ exclaimed John Paul Ziller, pronouncing the word like he was a Kansas City intellectual describing the Louvre to his sister-in-law who’d called to tell him to bring his vacation slides over some other night because she’d burned the spaghetti sauce and the baby had colic”. You can’t always be sure if Tom Robbins is […]
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