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Who are the Enigmatic Polygeneration? They were christened by Tom
Bradley in chapter four of Put It Down in a Book, as follows:
Digital connectivity has rendered physical locality irrelevant and
made polyversality the new thing . . . Once space has been erased
by the miracle of email, so has time, in terms of its effects on
the human frame . . . In a creation where particles can spookily
act upon each other at a distance of quadrillions of light years,
the Seven Ages of Man are as days in the week, and a generation can
span an open-ended number of decades . . . I'll invent a name
that's doubly apt, as these writers produce electricity as well as
useful heat.
This original collection of insight, analysis and conversation
charts the course of punk from its underground origins, when it was
an un-formed and utterly alluring near-secret, through its rapid
development. Punk is Dead: Modernity Killed Every Night takes in
sex, style, politics and philosophy, filtered through punk
experience, while believing in the ruins of memory, to explore a
past whose essence is always elusive.
In 1948 Robert Doisneau took a picture of a young woman working at
her typewriter on the banks of the Seine. With her stylish
sunglasses and short skirt, she seems to epitomise Left Bank
bohemian chic. In fact she turns out to be the English author Emma
Smith, composing her debut novel during a heatwave. We'll Never
Have Paris taps into the enduring fascination with a partly
fantasised literary Paris (that of the Lost Generation, Joyce,
Beckett and Shakespeare and Company) which also happens to be a
largely Anglophone construct - one which the Eurostar and Brexit
only seem to have exacerbated in recent years. Andrew Gallix, who
teaches at the Sorbonne, has brought together many of the most
talented and adventurous writers from the UK, Ireland, USA and
Australia to explore this theme through fiction and essays, in
order to build up a (real or fictitious, flattering or disparaging)
portrait of Paris as viewed by English speakers today. The book
includes Deborah Levy, Tom McCarthy, Brian Dillon, Joanna Walsh,
Eley Williams, Claire-Louise Bennett and some 70 other
contributors.
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