Words And Images By John

A selection of published articles:

• Books

  Fiction Reviews

  • The Pregnant Widow – Martin Amis
  • The Ask – Sam Lipsyte
  • The Humbling – Philip Roth
  • A Gate at the Stairs – Lorrie Moore
  • My Father’s Tears and Other Stories – John Updike
  • Indignation – Philip Roth
  • Don’t Cry: Stories – Mary Gaitskill
  • Veronica - Mary Gaitskill
  • Livability: Stories – Jon Raymond
  • All the Sad Young Literary Men – Keith Gessen
  • This Book Will Save Your Life - A.M. Homes

  Non-Fiction Reviews

  • Zona: A Book About A Film About A Journey To A Room – Geoff Dyer
  • David Hockney: A Rake’s Progress – The Biography – Christopher Simon Sykes
  • Otherwise Known As The Human Condition: Selected Essays And Reviews – Geoff Dyer
  • At The Fights: American Writers On Boxing - Edited by George Kimball and John Schulian
  • Cheever: A Life – Blake Bailey
  • The Essays of Leonard Michaels - Leonard Michaels
  • Edie Sedgwick – Girl On Fire/Factory Girl
  • John Osborne: The Many Lives of the Angry Young Man – John Heilpern
  • In Search of Willie Morris: The Mercurial Life of a Writer and Editor – Larry L. King
  • Heat: An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta Maker and Apprentice to a Dante Quoting Butcher in Tuscany – Bill Buford
  • Sexually I’m More of a Switzerland: More Personals From the London Review of Books
  • Waiter Rant: Thanks For the Tip – Confessions of a Cynical Waiter – The Waiter, Steve Dublanica
  • Richard Price and The Paris Review at The Continental Club

• Music

  • Via Tania – SXSW 2010
  • Dossier Journal Photo Essay – Not Your Typical SXSW Coverage
  • Underworld
  • Massive Attack
  • Gilles Peterson
  • Basement Jaxx
  • Unkle
  • Kraftwerk
  • Brian Eno – Ambient 1: Music For Airports
  • Brian Eno – Here Come The Warm Jets
  • David Bowie -Aladin Sane 30th Anniversary Re-Issue
  • David Bowie – David Live and Stage
  • David Bowie -Earthling
  • Donna Summer’s Journey Through the Heart of Disco
  • Morrissey
  • Damien Rice
  • Sinead O’Connor
  • Morcheeba
  • Martina Topley-Bird
  • Nublu: Wax Poetics
  • Death in Vegas
  • Two Gallants
  • Ambulance Ltd
  • Benzos
  • Kasabian

• Film

  • Louise Brooks at 100: An Interview with Film Critic and Author Peter Cowie
  • The Cult of Personality: Louise Brooks
  • The Lovers and The Fire Within: Two Films by Louis Malle (Criterion)
  • The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (Criterion)
  • The Ice Storm (Criterion)
  • Chris and Don: A Love Story (documentary feature on Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy)
  • Short takes: Les Ninjas Du Japon and Full Battle Rattle

• Interviews

  Writers

  • Melissa Banks (author of The Wonder Spot)
  • Peter Cowie (author of Louise Brooks)
  • Johnette Howard (author of The Rivals: Chris Evert vs Martina Navratilova)

  Musicians

  • Tim Booth
  • Two Gallants
  • The Chemical Brothers
  • Stellastarr*

• Popular Culture, Art and Artifacts

  • Becoming Tennessee Williams (on view at The Harry Ransom Centre): American Way Magazine
  • Shirts vs Skins: Stag, Men’s Clothing in Austin, Texas: American Way Magazine
  • The Lost Generation and the Art of Living (Art Review)
  • The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy
  • Nat Finkelstein Profile (Dazed and Confused Magazine)
  • Becks Chooses Life – David Beckham, Coming To America
  • The Killing of Georgie – George Best Obituary
  • Factory Bloke: Music Mogul Tony Wilson 1950-2007