After roaming the cultural wastelands for a while, we’re back with another sack full of scavenged items to poke fun at, and this week it’s a very mixed bag indeed. So what’s on the cards? Well, there’s the rise of lesbian time-travelling books, Swiss critic Martin Ebel’s corvine-based fantasies, Desert […]
Literary Loitering
Laser Bulge Versus Sexy Voodoo – Literary Loitering 107
We kick things off this week with an excerpt from the 1960s sci-fi novel Agent of Chaos by Norman Spinrad, which has a “hero” with a remarkably familiar name … Other discoveries this week include some very off books written by candidate for the nomination for the candidacy to become […]
Balls Deep With Geoffrey Of Monmouth – Literary Loitering 106
The internet’s hand-basket of cultural anarchy return for more playful poking of the over-stuffed bears of books and the arts. Kicking things off this episode are Stephen King’s claims that America’s President is scarier than anything he wrote, and that he kind of predicted the future in his book The […]
My Laudanum Hell – Literary Loitering 105
After a lengthy introduction about the pumping of jam and the lack of any noteworthy news relating to Game of Thrones, we kick things off with the lesser-known Tory leadership contest involving the books the contenders have written, after which we find out that people are angry at Jeremy Corbyn […]
Surprise Lions Cause Khaki Pants – Literary Loitering 104
The goat herders of cultural anarchy return with another sack full of interesting and sometimes strange tidings from the arts world, and kicking things off this week is the shocking news that Grr Martin has allegedly finished a book – something that he strenuously denies. In other news, the musician […]
My Life In The Bum Of Ghosts – Literary Loitering 103
The cultural anarchists have gathered for another edition of the notorious books and arts podcast that keeps threatening to make sense while at the same time keeps sliding down the slippery slope of art-house podcasting (you know, five minutes of silence, someone repeating the word peanut for ten seconds, a […]
Pro Evolution Narnia In Space – Literary Loitering 102
Some time in the near yet seemingly distant past (which would be around the end of last year), the cultural anarchists gathered to offer each other secret gifts to honour the season of the Jolly Red Northern Obese Man (not to be confused with his relative and arch nemesis, the […]
Everybody Definitely Poobs – Literary Loitering 101
The Literary Loitering soap box car speeds its way through the mean streets of cultural anarchy, with Graham, Andrew and Rob riding along on this fun outing. Kicking things off on this week’s tour of cultural anarchy is a CEO’s claim that she had memorised and could quote Jane Austen […]
100 Years Of Very Successful Pimpery – Literary Loitering 100
It’s party time for the cultural anarchists as we finally hit 100 episodes! Now that we’re officially fogeys of the podcasting world we cast a weathered gaze over the recent happenings, and offer our usual derisive, sorry, decisive commentary on things like French festival that have been criticised for using […]
Salinger Versus Predator – Literary Loitering 99
Don your leather jackets, wheel out your tricycles, and join Graham, Sarah and Rob for another anarchic slow-ride through arts, books and culture. Kicking things off this week, yet another former member of Donald Trump’s staff has released a tell-all book – which is more proof that if you want […]