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December 28, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Books That Blew My Mind # 2: “Run With The Hunted” by Charles Bukowski
Run With The Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader by Charles Bukowski I couldn’t really write about Charles Bukowski for my Authors I Admire series because there’s not a lot to admire – beyond the fact that as a writer, not as a human being, he did the time behind the typewriter. But I can rave […]Archive
December 2, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast # 241: John Newton
Welcome to episode 241 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved in your Spotify […]Archive
September 1, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 62
Barry De Vorzon and Perry Botkin Jr, Bless The Beasts & Children [OST] (1971) It’s going to seem like utter Carpenters overkill that I recently bought this – but actually the title track (which they sing) is really their only showing here; the reason I bought this is because of composer Barry De Vorzon (and […]Archive
August 31, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman: Sounds Like Titanic
Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman W. W. Norton & Company; 1st Edition One of many new treatises on the deep fake, artistic fraudulence and imposter syndrome, Jessica Hindman’s memoir masquerading as a novel tells the true story of her four years spent pretending to play the violin in a touring orchestra while […]Archive
August 20, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast # 226: Eamonn Marra
Welcome to episode 226 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved in your Spotify […]Archive
August 6, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast # 224: Rachel McAlpine
Welcome to episode 224 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved in your Spotify […]Archive
July 28, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: A Poem About The Shining
I watched The Shining again. Perfect horror film. Existential fear right there. Amazing performances, brilliantly filmed – that feeling of unease that trickles in with Wendy Carlos’ amazing music and the sound-design just so. And I’m ordering a book to read about the film and noticing my copy of Stephen King’s novel up there on […]Archive
December 11, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast # 198: Fifi Colston
Welcome to episode 198 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved […]Archive
July 18, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast # 176: Carl Shuker
Welcome to episode 176 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved in your Spotify library. I first met Carl Shuker close to 20 years ago. He […]Archive
April 8, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Carl Shuker: A Mistake
A Mistake Carl Shuker VUP The literary page-turner – a rare beast. Pip Adam can do it. John Colapinto managed it with both fiction and non-fiction and here Carl Shuker manages it and essentially turns non-fiction into fiction, or frames fiction via non-fiction and/or vice-versa. But what’s true, instantly, of A Mistake, his fifth novel, is that the writing is electric, the […]Archive
January 21, 2019 by Simon Sweetman