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Cover design by Marian Bantjes<\/a> for a 2009 series of Nabokov reprints.<\/em><\/p>\n \u2022 “It is quite unlike the bland featurelessnesses of the current fiction in which dull creative writing students chat to dull creative writing students (there is today a generalised fear of imaginative invention and giving offence).” Jonathan Meades<\/a> on late style and Vladimir Nabokov’s Transparent Things<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Cathi Unsworth remembers the late Roger K. Burton<\/a>, founder of London’s unique exhibition and venue space, The Horse Hospital.<\/p>\n \u2022 New music: Interior of an Edifice Under the Sea<\/em><\/a> by Pan American & Kramer; Glass Colored Lilly<\/em><\/a> by Yuki Fujiwara.<\/p>\n \u2022 Mixes of the week: DreamScenes \u2013 August 2025<\/a> at Ambientblog, and Bleep Mix 307<\/a> by On-U Sound.<\/p>\n \u2022 At the BFI: Michael Brooke<\/a> chooses 10 great Eastern European science-fiction films.<\/p>\n \u2022 At The Wire<\/em>: David Toop and Ania Psenitsnikova<\/a> on moving beyond music and dance.<\/p>\n \u2022 At Colossal: Weird Buildings<\/em><\/a> celebrates architects who think outside the box.<\/p>\n \u2022 Verbal<\/em><\/a> #12 includes new fiction by Michael Moorcock, among others.<\/p>\n \u2022 At Unquiet Things: Exquisite incantations in clay by Forest Rogers<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Steven Heller’s font of the month is Experimo<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Dale Cornish’s favourite albums<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Tenth Letter of the Alphabet<\/a><\/p>\n \u2022 Ecstasy Symphony\/Transparent Radiation (Flashback)<\/em><\/a> (1987) by Spacemen 3 | Almost Transparent Blue<\/em><\/a> (1996) by David Toop | Transparent<\/em><\/a> (1997) by Reflection<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cover design by Marian Bantjes for a 2009 series of Nabokov reprints. \u2022 “It is quite unlike the bland featurelessnesses of the current fiction in which dull creative writing students chat to dull creative writing students (there is today a generalised fear of imaginative invention and giving offence).” Jonathan Meades on late style and Vladimir … Continue reading “Weekend links 791”<\/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":"New blog post: Weekend links 791","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":[8,2,42,56,4,21,7,3,20,41,10],"tags":[14140,14137,14142,412,14141,4059,14026,1193,10011,65,12213,14144,14138,14143,807,14139],"class_list":["post-28338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art","category-books","category-dance","category-design","category-fantasy","category-film","category-music","category-science-fiction","category-sculpture","category-typography","tag-ania-psenitsnikova","tag-cathi-unsworth","tag-dale-cornish","tag-david-toop","tag-forest-rogers","tag-jonathan-meades","tag-kramer-musician","tag-marian-bantjes","tag-michael-brooke","tag-michael-moorcock","tag-pan-american","tag-reflection-group","tag-roger-k-burton","tag-spacemen-3","tag-vladimir-nabokov","tag-yuki-fujiwara"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-7n4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28338","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=28338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}