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Environment Transformer\/Flyhead Helmet by Haus-Rucker-Co (1968). From Hippie Modernism<\/a> at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 From 2006: Weird Tales: The Strange Life of HP Lovecraft<\/a>. Geoff Ward examines Lovecraft’s life and work for BBC Radio 3 with contributions from Neil Gaiman, ST Joshi, Kelly Link, China Mi\u00e9ville and Peter Straub. Meanwhile, Ned Beauman<\/a> wonders whether Ford Madox Ford is “as scary as Lovecraft”.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Alexei German’s years-in-the-making feature film, Hard to be a God<\/em> (previously<\/a>), receives a UK release this week. Paul Duane<\/a> reports on an overwhelming viewing experience, while Nigel Andrews<\/a> says it “may be the greatest film since the millennium began”.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mixes of the week: Adventures In Sound And Music, 30 July 2015, hosted by Joseph Stannard<\/a>, and RCMIX9 by worriedaboutsatan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As Nabokov insisted, \u201cLiterature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth.\u201d The genre thrives because its deceptions are liberating. For Wood, the thrill of reading fiction is intimately connected with the awareness that fiction constitutes \u201can utterly free space, where anything might be thought, anything uttered.\u201d The excitement comes when, as readers, we\u2019re allowed to participate in this freedom and experience the fiction imaginatively, without being required to believe that it is true.<\/p>\n

Joanna Scott<\/a> on The Virtues of Difficult Fiction<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 “Writing used to be a solitary profession. How did it become so interminably social?” asks Meghan Tifft<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The original, real-life dystopian cityscape of Kowloon Walled City<\/a>, and the artwork it inspired.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Long, Lonely Walk: Nick Ripatrazone<\/a> on hallways in horror films.<\/p>\n

\u2022 New cover designs<\/a> for the Essentials range from Penguin Books.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Lemi Ghariokwu<\/a>: “How I designed Fela Kuti’s album covers”.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “Do CDs sound better than vinyl?” asks Chris Kornelis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Magic Fly<\/a><\/em> (1977) by Space |\u00a0Human Fly<\/a><\/em> (1978) by The Cramps | I Am The Fly<\/a><\/em> (1978) by Wire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Environment Transformer\/Flyhead Helmet by Haus-Rucker-Co (1968). From Hippie Modernism at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. \u2022 From 2006: Weird Tales: The Strange Life of HP Lovecraft. Geoff Ward examines Lovecraft’s life and work for BBC Radio 3 with contributions from Neil Gaiman, ST Joshi, Kelly Link, China Mi\u00e9ville and Peter Straub. Meanwhile, Ned Beauman wonders … Continue reading “Weekend links 271”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,2,42,51,4,7,22,26,3,20,15],"tags":[7542,1032,7549,1569,7541,7538,7537,1687,7544,7545,2164,7539,7548,7546,7540,301,7547,7553,6522,633,606,4881,608,213,7550],"class_list":["post-17119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art","category-books","category-cities","category-design","category-film","category-horror","category-lovecraft","category-music","category-science-fiction","category-technology","tag-alexei-german","tag-china-mieville","tag-chris-kornelis","tag-fela-kuti","tag-ford-madox-ford","tag-geoff-ward","tag-haus-rucker-co","tag-hp-lovecraft","tag-james-wood","tag-joanna-scott","tag-joseph-stannard","tag-kelly-link","tag-lemi-ghariokwu","tag-meghan-tifft","tag-ned-beauman","tag-neil-gaiman","tag-nick-ripatrazone","tag-nigel-andrews","tag-paul-duane","tag-penguin-books","tag-peter-straub","tag-space-group","tag-st-joshi","tag-the-cramps","tag-wire-group"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4s7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}