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A Mrs Radcliffe Called Today (1944) by Dorothea Tanning.<\/em><\/p>\n \u2022 Darran Anderson<\/a> on how the Bauhaus kept things weird. “Many imitators of the famous art school’s output have missed the surreal, sensual, irrational, and instinctual spirit that drove its creativity.”<\/p>\n \u2022 Notes on the Fourth Dimension: Hyperspace, ghosts, and colourful cubes\u2014Jon Crabb<\/a> on the work of Charles Howard Hinton and the cultural history of higher dimensions.<\/p>\n \u2022 “[Edward] Gorey is slowly emerging as one of the more unclubbable American greats, like Lovecraft or Joseph Cornell,” says Phil Baker<\/a>.<\/p>\n The label \u201chomosexual writer\u201d stuck for the rest of his career, with Purdy confined to what Gore Vidal called \u201cthe large cemetery of gay literature…where unalike writers are thrown together in a lot, well off the beaten track of family values\u201d. In later years, Purdy moved further off the beaten track, as much by intention as circumstance. \u201cI\u2019m not a gay writer,\u201d he would tell interviewers. \u201cI\u2019m a monster. Gay writers are too conservative.\u201d<\/p>\n Speaking to Penthouse<\/em> magazine in 1978, Purdy said being published was like \u201cthrowing a party for friends and all these coarse wicked people come instead, and break the furniture and vomit all over the house\u201d. He added that, in order to protect oneself, \u201ca writer needs to be completely unavailable\u201d.<\/p>\n Andrew Male<\/a> on writer James Purdy<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u2022 The Necessity of Being Judgmental: Roger Luckhurst<\/a> on k-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Faunus: The Decorative Imagination of Arthur Machen<\/em><\/a>, edited by James Machin with an introduction by Stewart Lee.<\/p>\n \u2022 More James Purdy: “His poetry displays a softness that readers of his fiction might not expect,” says Daniel Green<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Drag Star!<\/em><\/a> is a 150,000-word interactive novel\/text adventure by Evan J. Peterson.<\/p>\n \u2022 At Dangerous Minds: Dave Ball<\/a> discusses his years as the other half of Soft Cell.<\/p>\n \u2022 Daisy Woodward<\/a> on the story of radical female Surrealist Dorothea Tanning.<\/p>\n \u2022 Inside the bascule chamber: photos of Tower Bridge<\/a>, inside and out.<\/p>\n \u2022 Tim Smith-Laing<\/a> on the meaning of Mir\u00f3’s doodles.<\/p>\n \u2022 Galerie Dennis Cooper presents…Emma Kunz<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 rarecinema<\/a>: a shop at Redbubble.<\/p>\n \u2022 Apollo Press Kits<\/a><\/p>\n \u2022 The Fourth Dimension<\/a><\/em> (1964) by The Ventures | Dimension Soleils<\/a><\/em> (1983) by Gilles Tremblay | Into The Fourth Dimension<\/a><\/em> (1991) by The Orb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Mrs Radcliffe Called Today (1944) by Dorothea Tanning. \u2022 Darran Anderson on how the Bauhaus kept things weird. “Many imitators of the famous art school’s output have missed the surreal, sensual, irrational, and instinctual spirit that drove its creativity.” \u2022 Notes on the Fourth Dimension: Hyperspace, ghosts, and colourful cubes\u2014Jon Crabb on the work … Continue reading “Weekend links 456”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,2,42,4,7,5,3,44,12,14,13,41,18],"tags":[8471,9904,197,6119,4511,9967,9965,3065,3109,1180,2313,2712,1035,9970,3918,8922,7415,9969,9966,1405,2470,5072,3066,3142,5480,4007,2339,9968],"class_list":["post-19058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art","category-books","category-design","category-film","category-gay","category-music","category-painting","category-photography","category-politics","category-science","category-sculpture","category-surrealism","tag-andrew-male","tag-apollo-11","tag-arthur-machen","tag-charles-howard-hinton","tag-daisy-woodward","tag-daniel-green","tag-darran-anderson","tag-dave-ball","tag-dennis-cooper","tag-dorothea-tanning","tag-edward-gorey","tag-emma-kunz","tag-evan-j-peterson","tag-gilles-tremblay","tag-gore-vidal","tag-james-machin","tag-james-purdy","tag-joan-miro","tag-jon-crabb","tag-mark-fisher","tag-phil-baker","tag-roger-luckhurst","tag-soft-cell","tag-stewart-lee","tag-the-orb","tag-the-orb-group","tag-the-ventures","tag-tim-smith-laing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4Xo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19058","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=19058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}