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Seam Stress (1987) by Laurie Lipton<\/a>.\u00a0The Drawings of Laurie Lipton<\/a> is out now from Last Gasp.<\/em><\/p>\n \u2022 The Quietus continues to be essential reading: John Doran talks to Richard H Kirk<\/a> about Cabaret Voltaire | Sarah Angliss<\/a>, musician and inventor of music machines, talks to Stuart Huggett | “…the most overt literary lodestar for The Art Of Falling Apart<\/em> is John Rechy, trailblazing chronicler of the gay underbelly of hustlers and queens zig-zagging across America, and author of Numbers<\/em>, the book from which Soft Cell’s song takes its name.” Matthew Lindsay<\/a> looks back at Soft Cell’s second (and best) album.<\/p>\n \u2022 “The English have something of a tradition where they like to scare you out of your mind at Christmas, a kind of sobering up of the senses by forces that seem to be beyond them.” Colin Fleming<\/a> on\u00a0The Signal-Man<\/em> by Charles Dickens. More ghosts: Lisa Kerrigan<\/a> explains why she loves Nigel Kneale’s 1989 TV adaptation of The Woman in Black<\/em><\/a> by Susan Hill, and the BFI resurrects The Mistletoe Bough<\/em><\/a> (1904), “the oldest film version of a classic Christmas ghost story”.<\/p>\n \u2022 “…the story is filled with a whole mess of embarrassed and embarrassing euphemisms for (ahem) big dick\u2014stiff language, so to speak, like ‘bludgeon,’ like ‘giant concupiscence’ and ‘ostentatious organ.'” Steven Cordova<\/a> on A Visit to Priapus and Other Stories<\/em> by Glenway Wescott.<\/p>\n \u2022 “Never produced, the screenplay for The Way to Santiago<\/em> is credited to Orson Welles<\/a>. A quick look at the text leaves no doubt it was the work of the Citizen Kane<\/em> filmmaker when he was at the peak of his arrogant brilliance. The script begins: ‘My face fills the frame.'”<\/p>\n \u2022 If you’re at all interested in the current state of the British musical underground, the end-of-year lists at Ears For Eyes<\/a> are worth your attention.<\/p>\n \u2022 Pee-wee\u2019s (Remastered) Christmas Adventure<\/a>: An interview with Paul Reubens. 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