Tag: steve aylett
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Aylett’s Inferno
An Essay by Bill Ectric on Steve Aylett’s Shamanspace This essay first appeared in the book Steve Aylett: A Critical Anthology; Published by Sein und Werden Books, Copyright 2016 by Sein und Werden and Bill Ectric. All rights reserved. WARNING: This review contains spoilers. —∞— “Of making many books there is no end, and much study…
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Interview With Steve Aylett
This interview first appeared on Literary Kicks, May 26, 2006 Postmodern novelist Steve Aylett was born in 1967 in the Bromley Borough of London, England. His first book, The Crime Studio, was published in 1994, and his later works include Bigot Hall, Slaughtermatic and his most recent tour de force, Lint. Aylett’s work has been…
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‘clusterbusting hallucinations’: Speed in Steve Aylett’s Bigot Hall
This essay by Robert Kiely will be included in the book To Unearth the Bruises Underground: The Fanatical Oeuvre of Steve Aylett (Anti-Oedipus Press, 2014), edited by D. Harlan Wilson and Bill Ectric. You can also check out Aylett’s latest project at UNBOUND. The essay begins: Speed engenders the unexpected. It is often considered a pleasure in…
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AylettVison Goes Online
My edit of Steve Aylett’s LINT THE MOVIE can now be seen in its entirety HERE. Starring Alan Moore, Stewart Lee, Josie Long, Steve Aylett, Robin Ince, Jeff Vandermeer, D Harlan Wilson, Andrew O’Neill, Vessel (Mister Solo/David Devant), Bill Ectric, Mitzi Szereto, Spencer Pate, Mo Ali and others, LINT THE MOVIE documents the life and work…
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D. Harlan Wilson on Aylett’s Novahead
“Alan Moore calls Aylett ‘the most original and most consciousness-altering living writer in the English language, not to mention one of the funniest.’ By definition, book blurbs are hyperbolic marketing ploys, but in this case, Moore isn’t far off target.” Read More
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Burning Man
I thought Steve Aylett was joking when one of the characters in his phosphorescent noir-action novel, Novahead, says that a character in Charles Dickens’ Bleak House died from spontaneous human combustion. I have obviously never read Bleak House. David Perdue tells us that “Dickens sparked controversy in Bleak House when he had a rag and bone dealer named Krook die…
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Inside the Head of D. Harlan Wilson
It is harder than you might think to write good Bizarro fiction. Practically anyone can conjure up a weird scene about people with goat heads or a beard crawling off someone’s face, but few can write about it with the crisply entertaining panache of D. Harlan Wilson. Wilson’s novel, Peckinpah (2009, Shroud Publishing), is described…