The cultural anarchists are back for another not-so-serious look at the serious world of books and the arts, and kicking things off this week is the Nobel Prize for Literature – which was suspended for a year because of allegations of sexual harassment. So this year should be better, right? […]
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Golden Toilet 2: Electric Portaloo – Literary Loitering 110
We begin this episode with the news that someone has stolen Maurizio Cattelan’s Golden Toilet from Blenheim Palace. No, seriously. Somebody stole a golden toilet. Among the other news, Angela Carter’s house finally gets a blue plaque to celebrate her life and work, a gynaecologist has been banned from Twitter […]
Literary Loitering 88 – Tales From Fort Peddlesmut: The Big Cocky Dragon Slayer
Don’t trust fairies and other fey creatures like unicorns. After that public service announcement it’s time for our resident cultural anarchists to venture into the murky dystopia of literature and the arts where they discover racism from the creator of Little House on the Prairie, authors retiring then making comebacks, […]