{"id":31605,"date":"2026-08-29T19:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T18:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=31605"},"modified":"2026-08-29T15:18:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T14:18:29","slug":"weekend-links-845","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2026\/08\/29\/weekend-links-845\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links 845"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/belburymusic.greedbag.com\/buy\/sorcery-15\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/belbury.jpg\" alt=\"belbury.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Cover design by Jim Jupp, art by Arik Roper.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 New music: <a href=\"https:\/\/belburymusic.greedbag.com\/buy\/sorcery-15\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Sorcery<\/em><\/a> by Belbury Poly, or &#8220;The Belbury Poly&#8221; as the credit on the cover art has it. The description of the forthcoming release says &#8220;it grew from [Jim] Jupp\u2019s love of early to mid-80s electronic music and a rediscovery of how that music had soundtracked his childhood love of all things sci-fi and fantasy. It\u2019s moody and melodramatic electronica rendered in bright and evocative 80s sounds.&#8221; And concerning the cover art there&#8217;s this: &#8220;Some may notice the typographical nod to Mayflower Books&#8217; Michael Moorcock novels.&#8221; Indeed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/matthews.jpg\" alt=\"matthews.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Cover art by Rodney Matthews, 1977.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Among the new titles at Standard Ebooks, the home of free, high-quality, public-domain texts: <a href=\"https:\/\/standardebooks.org\/ebooks\/jane-c-loudon\/the-mummy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century<\/em><\/a> (1827) by Jane C. Loudon, and <a href=\"https:\/\/standardebooks.org\/ebooks\/herbert-gorman\/the-place-called-dagon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Place Called Dagon<\/em><\/a> (1927) by Herbert S. Gorman.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 More new music: <a href=\"https:\/\/juliaholter.bandcamp.com\/album\/materia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Materia<\/em><\/a> by Julia Holter; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenomalley.bandcamp.com\/album\/avaeken\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Avaeken<\/em><\/a> by Stephen O&#8217;Malley; <a href=\"https:\/\/eighthtowerrecords.bandcamp.com\/album\/witchcraft-black-magic-in-the-united-kingdom-expanded-version\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Witchcraft &amp; Black Magic In The United Kingdom<\/em><\/a> by Various Artists.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Natural History Museum presents competition photos from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhm.ac.uk\/wpy\/gallery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wildlife Photographer of the Year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 This week I drew a new header design for the <a href=\"https:\/\/endlessbookshelf.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Endless Bookshelf<\/a> website.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 At the BFI: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bfi.org.uk\/lists\/10-great-films-about-screenwriters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brogan Morris<\/a> chooses 10 great films about screenwriters.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 At Dennis Cooper&#8217;s it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/denniscooperblog.com\/palimpsest-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Palimpsest Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 RIP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2026\/aug\/27\/tim-curry-obituary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tim Curry<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/aug\/27\/yayoi-kusama-obituary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yayoi Kusama<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uPFzX9gqXPw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sorcery #1<\/a><\/em> (1974) by Jack DeJohnette | <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1smxJ419ymc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sorcerer<\/a><\/em> (1977) by Tangerine Dream | <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-yPGkfFb9ls&amp;t=1620s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Return Of The Sorcerer<\/a><\/em> (2011) by The Wounded Kings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cover design by Jim Jupp, art by Arik Roper. \u2022 New music: Sorcery by Belbury Poly, or &#8220;The Belbury Poly&#8221; as the credit on the cover art has it. The description of the forthcoming release says &#8220;it grew from [Jim] Jupp\u2019s love of early to mid-80s electronic music and a rediscovery of how that music &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2026\/08\/29\/weekend-links-845\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weekend links 845&#8221;<\/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":"New blog post: Weekend links 845","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":[2,42,4,29,7,22,3,16,12,20,23],"tags":[338,3319,14425,14764,14763,11658,14762,1016,3372,14761,65,14097,1034,889,7398,14765,271],"class_list":["post-31605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-design","category-electronica","category-film","category-horror","category-music","category-occult","category-photography","category-science-fiction","category-work","tag-arik-roper","tag-belbury-poly","tag-brogan-morris","tag-endless-bookshelf","tag-herbert-s-gorman","tag-jack-dejohnette","tag-jane-c-loudon","tag-jim-jupp","tag-julia-holter","tag-mayflower-books","tag-michael-moorcock","tag-rodney-matthews","tag-stephen-omalley","tag-tangerine-dream","tag-the-wounded-kings","tag-tim-curry","tag-yayoi-kusama"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-8dL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31605","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=31605"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31608,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31605\/revisions\/31608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}