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Brion Gysin (2010)

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Burroughs and Gysin

 I review the New Museum's Brion Gysin show in Frieze 135.

Posted on November 6th, 2010

Hunter S. Thompson (1998)

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A review of The Proud Highway: The Fear and Loathing Letters Volume One

Some time during the nineteen-sixties, the voice of American journalism went through a radical change. Tom Wolfe christened the phenomenon "the New Journalism", and in a triumphant essay claimed that non-fiction writers had, after years of being treated as second-class citizens, finally taken the literary high-ground away from the novelists. Wolfe pointed to the new stylistic freedom given to writers by hip magazines like Jan Wenner's Rolling Stone, and suggested that the massive popularity of long, highly-coloured, idiosyncratic features was linked to the novel's failure to address the sudden shift in "manners and morals" taking place in American culture.
Posted on December 17th, 2008
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