Books: Review of The Writer’s Journey in The Sydney Morning Herald

https://www.smh.com.au/culture/books/what-to-read-next-a-thrilling-outback-mystery-and-writers-on-the-road-20221230-p5c9j0.html

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Event: Stone Club, 13 February, 7pm, The Social, Little Portland St

Join Stone Club for their first event at The Social for 2023. There will be films from Danny Hammond & Spaceship Mark. Annebella Pollen will guide us through the history of the mysterious Kibbo Kift and Travis Elborough will take us on a journey to vanished and Improbable places.

Tickets available here:

https://thesocial.seetickets.com/event/stone-club/the-social/2502541

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Picture: Korean editions of Atlas of Vanishing Places

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January 6, 2023 · 2:22 pm

Picture: Here’s looking at you 2023

The best to everyone and hopefully being seeing some of you sometime over the next year – the paperback of Through the Looking Glasses is coming in April so watch out for that. These were some unused cover designs featuring Spizz of ‘Where’s Captain Kirk?’ fame.

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Picture: Seasons Greetings to you all, thanks to everyone who bought a book or came to an event this last year – one of great highs and extreme lows – here’s to 2023

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December 23, 2022 · 7:01 pm

Picture: Myself and Ian Svenonius following the screening and Q&A of The Lost Record at the Horse Hospital

Polaroid courtesy of Ian Svenonius

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Books: The Writer’s Journey selected by the Smithsonian Magazine as one of the ‘Ten Best Books About Travel of 2022’

Online here:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/the-ten-best-books-about-travel-of-2022-180981261/

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Event: David Bowie:The Gift of Sound and Vision with Tony McGee and Leah Kardos, 10 January 2023, from 7pm, The Century Club, Shaftesbury Avenue


On the anniversary of David Bowie’s death, join photographer & film director Tony McGee, to hear about his life and times working with David, and author Dr. Leah Kardos, who wrote Blackstar Theory. 

Mc Gee, whose photographer career spans over four decades, had unique access to the star thanks to a close professional relationship and friendship. After meeting Bowie at a cocktail party, Tony was drafted in to shoot the publicity for Bowie’s 1983 Let’s Dance tour.  Several shoots followed and Mc Gee’s most famous images of Bowie now reside in the National Portrait Gallery’s permanent collection. The pair went on to have friendship of more than thirty years and we will hear about the shoots, about how the two worked together, the importance of music in the sessions and stories from their friendship down the years
Dr. Leah Kardos is a composer, musician and author. Her most recent book, Blackstar Theory takes a close look at Bowie’s ambitious last works: his surprise ‘comeback’ project The Next Day (2013), the off-Broadway musical Lazarus (2015) and the album that preceded the artist’s death in 2016 by two days, Blackstar. On the night, Leah will investigate how a man approaching his own death can create art that illuminates the immortal potential of all matter in the known universe.

The evening will be hosted by author and cultural commentator Travis Elborough.

More info and to book tickets here. 

https://centuryclub.co.uk/members-events/bowie-looks-at-us-an-in-conversation-with-tony-mcgee-and-leah-kardos/

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Event: The Lost Record screening, 12 December, 7pm, The Horse Hospital + Q&A with Ian Svenonius

The Lost Record is a unique movie by Ian Svenonious (frontman of post-punk band The Make-Up) and Alexandra Cabral about a girl’s relationship to a record she finds, a valueless ‘lost record’ from the cut-out bin, which she brings to wider attention; first to her friends and then to mass culture. 

The lost record she finds is obscure, unknown, and different than other records in that it talks to the listener. The girl and the record develop a very close relationship but tension arises; the Record urges her to turn her friends on to it, play it at parties, etc, while the girl would rather keep their thing intimate, to herself. 

The Lost Record is a film about art, music, fetish, creation, popularity, fame, love, value, money, property, and records and as bright, sleek and stylish as the finest of porky’s prime cuts. 

After the screening Ian will be in conversation with the author Travis Elborough and signing advance copies of his latest book, Against the Written Word: Toward a Universal Illiteracy – ‘an omega to the Gutenberg Bible’s alpha’.

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Event: Speaking at London Modern on Sat 10 December, Waltham Forest Town Hall, E17

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