Rojak is a regular collection of assorted links as well as a bulletin summarising the week (or thereabouts) on this blog.
Whoa, what a busy week. Here’s a Rojak to end it on.
Assorted
New Cults song here. [via YouTube]
“Beware of clichés. Not just the clichés that Martin Amis is at war with. There are clichés of response as well as expression. There are clichés of observation and of thought—even of conception. Many novels, even quite a few adequately written ones, are clichés of form which conform to clichés of expectation.” Geoff Dyer has ten rules for writing fiction. [via The Paris Review tumblr]
Review of Vsevolod Nekrasov’s I Live I See, a collection in English translation. [via Words Without Borders]
More on the cover(s) of Janelle Monáe’s The Electric Lady. [via The Electric Lady]
Conversation with Warren Ellis. [via The Paris Review]
Pitchfork ran something on Julianna Barwick. [via Pitchfork]
Tom Phillips’s A Humument and erasure. [via archipelago books]
On the demise of used-book stores. [via NYRB]
The ideal English major. [via The Chronicle of Higher Education]
Bulletin
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