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Fire, Red and Gold (1990) by Eyvind Earle.<\/em><\/p>\n \u2022 Roger Penrose won a Nobel Prize<\/a> recently for his work in physics. I read one of his books a few years ago, and was intimidated by the “simple” equations, but I always like to hear his ideas. This 2017 article by Philip Ball<\/a> is an illuminating overview of Penrose’s life and work.<\/p>\n \u2022 At Dangerous Minds: Joe Banks<\/a> on the incidents that led to Lemmy’s dismissal from Hawkwind in 1975, an extract from Hawkwind: Days of the Underground<\/em>. The book is available from Strange Attractor<\/a> in Europe and via MIT Press<\/a> in the USA.<\/p>\n \u2022 “Not married but willing to be!”: men in love (with each other) from the 1850s on<\/a>. It’s always advisable to take photos like these with a pinch of salt but several of the examples are unavoidably what they appear to be.<\/p>\n Most of all, this resolutely collaborative production stood against the vanity and careerism of individual authorship; Breton called it the first attempt to \u201cadapt a moral attitude, and the only one possible, to a writing process.\u201d The text itself is peppered with readymade phrases, advertising slogans, twisted proverbs, and pastiches of such admired predecessors as Rimbaud, Apollinaire, and Lautr\u00e9amont, whose pluralistic credo, \u201cPoetry must be made by all. Not by one,\u201d anticipates the sampling aesthetic by a century. But the intensity was draining, and as the book moves toward its final pages and the writing becomes increasingly frenetic, you can almost feel the burnout taking hold. After eight days, fearing for his and Soupault\u2019s sanity, Breton terminated the experiment.<\/p>\n Mark Polizzotti<\/a> reviews a new translation by Charlotte Mandell of The Magnetic Fields by Andr\u00e9 Breton and Philippe Soupault<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u2022 The hide that binds: Mike Jay<\/a> reviews Dark Archives: A Librarian\u2019s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin<\/em> by Megan Rosenbloom.<\/p>\n \u2022 “A photographer ventures deeper into Chernobyl than any before him.” Pictures from Chernobyl: A Stalker’s Guide<\/em> by Darmon Richter<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 John Van Stan’s reading of Frankenstein<\/em> by Mary Shelley<\/a> uses my illustrations (with my permission) for each of its chapters.<\/p>\n \u2022 Susan Jamison<\/a>, one of the artists in The Art of the Occult<\/em> by S. Elizabeth, talks to the latter about her work.<\/p>\n \u2022 William Hope Hodgson: The Secret Index<\/a>. A collection of Hodgson-related posts at Greydogtales.<\/p>\n \u2022 Gee Vaucher<\/a> talks to Savage Pencil about her cover art for anarchist punk band, Crass.<\/p>\n \u2022 Weird, wacky and utterly wonderful: the world’s greatest unsung museums<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Tom Cardamone<\/a> chooses the best books about Oscar Wilde.<\/p>\n \u2022 At Dennis Cooper’s: Jean-Pierre Melville<\/a> Day.<\/p>\n \u2022 You<\/em><\/a> by The Bug ft. Dis Fig.<\/p>\n \u2022 Magnetic Dwarf Reptile<\/a><\/em> (1978) by Chrome | Magnetic Fields, Part 1<\/a><\/em> (1981) by Jean-Michel Jarre | Magnetic North<\/a><\/em> (1998) by Skyray<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"