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Badiou gave a very accessible talk last night as part of the Derrida memorial lecture series, lamenting the state of politics at the moment and lambasting 'Texan' attacks on Derrida after his death. I didn't take any notes, and am not an expert so don't take this as, erm, gospel. There will be a...

Adam Thirlwell's novel Politics is good. I forgot about that. And Eoin McNamee's books Resurrection Man and The Ultras are both very interesting, though flawed in a Sinclairish way.

thanks for that reply jenks, thats an interesting list, can't say I've read all of them but I'd agree that theres some great stuff there: Deane's Reading in the Dark is a terrific novel, Sinclair I have problems with - the whole psychogeography thing seems a spent meme to me, and his prose style...

Jenks and Jed, I wasn't being prescriptive, if you read my post you'll see I'm not advocating anyone 'apeing' anything, I just think that the contemporary (British/Irish) novel is shit. Basically I want to be moved and I want ideas. And by ideas I don't mean Mitchel's rehashed Nietzscheanism...

'The Line of Beauty' is only the most glaring symptom of the hegemony of the dreaded Henry James over the parched tundra of contemporary British/Irish/ish novel. Interiority, free indirect speech and 'three-dimensional' characterisation do not a novel make. An utterly retrogressive attempt to...

What can you bring to wherever you might emigrate to?

Not at the moment. Thats where I live though. Lovely isn't it?

Yeah. Or an im-Mick-grant. Oh dear

Just seen this Droid, after I posted below. The Corrs! Argh. Haven't heard of much of that other stuff, but I've been out of Ireland for a long time.

Planxty I'll grant you, and Dylan says Luke Kelly is the best ballad singer he ever heard, but back in the dodgy corner: Snow patrol, Horslips, David fucking Holmes, Clannad, Fergie and (flourish of trumpets) Enya.

Time of the Wolf is one of the most powerful, viscerally moving films I have ever seen, absolutely crawling with post-apocalyptic dread. Its like Stalker minus the mysticism, though with traces still of that movie's immense tenderness. The closing moments especially are astonishing. Better than...

ireland: U2, sinead o'connor, afro-celt sound system, hothouse flowers, daniel O'donnell, showbands, ash, microdisney, fatima mansions, van fucking morrison.

Ah yes, still gives me the spinal shiver that one, every time. Wonderful.

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Enjoyed these responses. Martin, I think the Glass Curtain is by Carlo Gebler, who is the lovely Edna O'Brien's son. His novels are worth looking at too, can't remember any titles though...

Thanks everyone for these recommendations, I'll try and track em down.

He was superb the other night, seemed like a genuinely warm, open and thoughtful human being, which of course made me suspicious, but unnecessarily so, I'm sure. The main cinema in the NFT was packed and he talked for well over an hour, took questions too. He really does act out the process of...

Going to hear him at speak at the NFT tomorrow night. His novel 'G.', which won the first Booker prize, is one of my favourites. He gave the cash to the Black Panthers.

Libraries Make us Free I've put this in thought rather than literature because I don't necessarily mean novels or poetry, though they can of course be included. What I want to hear about are books that profoundly affected you, so much so that you can think of your life in terms of before and...

I picked up In-Mid-Air recently on Alga Marghen and am digging it, its the first thing I've heard by him. Lovely sine tones and oscillating drones from 1967 to 1970. Looks a bit wasted on the back. Coil have a copy of this somewhere I'll wager. Any other recommendations by, comments on CP?