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Interview: ‘A Living Memory’: Iain Sinclair On Life At 70

Today the Google Search fishing net returned this catch, an interview with Iain by Tim Burrows  “ahead of his 70×70 Finale”.

Read it clicking on Stanley Schtinter’s photo, reproduced without permission (hope you don’t mind Stan!)

 

 

 

 

 

Last Writes: 70×70 @ The Barbican

Here is a short piece written by Iain Sinclair for the 70×70 grand final.

According to the Psalmist: ‘The days of our years are threescore and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly [...]

I came up with these…

Often words from the website pop up in articles, blog posts, radio show, podcasts.

I was listening to Iain Sinclair on beat generation and the interviewer describes Iain using the words found in the  “About”  page.

After many years, I feel the need to claim paternity for some of those words.

“metropolitan prophet and urban shaman, keeper of [...]

Iain Sinclair on Beat Generation

70×70: Psycho and Touch of Evil at The Cinema Museum

Updated:

Still not too late:

http://www.cinemamuseum.org.uk/2014/i...

Throughout his 70th birthday year, writer and psychogeographer Iain Sinclair has been curating a season of 70 films that have appeared in his novels, presented in cinemas and venues across the capital.

Here he describes the two films that he and Anne Sinclair will be introducing at this evening’s [...]

American Smoke review on the NY Times Sunday Boot Review by LAWRENCE OSBORNE

A review of American Smoke (the second book in the review):

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/01/boo...

John Clare in Space: Poetry, Nature and Contemporary Culture

On 30-31 May 2014 Iain Sinclair, Andrew Kötting and other speakers, will lead a two-day conference at Oxford Brookes University to celebrate the 150th anniversary of English poet John Clare‘s death, who passed away on 20 May 1864.

In essence, this will be a broad celebration of Clare, marking 150 years since his death [...]

70×70 re-scheduled

 

 

“London’s Lost Narratives”

From Gareth @ The Marshman Chronicles

14th May 2014Hello

I’d like to invite you to a special event at the Stoke Newington Literary festival on Saturday June 7th.

I’ll be talking about ‘London’s Lost Narratives’ with John Rogers, author of This Other London: Adventures in the Overlooked City (review of his book in The Londonist here)

We’ll reveal [...]

Ghosts of a Ghost: William Burroughs, time surgery and the death of the image

From the Photographer’s Gallery website

“In this video, recorded at The Photographers’ Gallery to accompany our exhibition of photographs by William S. Burroughs, Iain Sinclair presents a fragmentary consideration of the interplay of photography, sound recording, manipulated autobiography, interview and anecdote in the work of Burroughs.”