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author of the novel Vicious Spring (“a little bit American Beauty, a little bit Catcher In The Rye for crueler times” – the Observer), as well as the forthcoming Comes the Night. She lives in Nashville, TN.
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As a writer who is married to a musician, I’ve always been envious of the collaborative nature of music, so when I read about the origins of the Port Eliot Literary Festival and realized that doing a reading there would provide a chance to do something not normally done at a typical bookstore reading, I decided to take my opportunity
“Five Dials” Book Launch Announcement
Hollis Hampton-Jones is in town from Nashville, via Port Eliot, where she performed with Ryan Norris from the band Lambchop.She is over for the launch of her new novel Comes The Night (‘A beautifully written, shocking and memorable meditation on the so-called life of a twenty-first-century girl’ Helen Cross, author of My Summer of Love.) Here she is with Katie Kitamura, on the right,
Five Dials Teepee Launch 12 August 2011
Photos just in of our first ever launch in a teepee, high up on the hill above Port Eliot. Pictured left to right are: Ryan Norris of Lambchop; Hollis Hampton-Jones, author of Comes The Night ; Hari Kunzru; Katie Kitamura; and HH publisher Simon Prosser. Holli and Simon made speeches, Ryan played the guitar, Zack Spiger took the photo, and the
Bernardine Evaristo Blog Review
Posted on August 13, 2011 by bevaristo “This short novel is beautifully-written. It is as concise and carefully-crafted as poetry without a single, superfluous word, sentence or sentiment – no excess.An American teenager called Meade, living in Paris, descends into anorexia while suffering from dependency on drugs, alcohol and her twin brother, Ben Ho. She seeks to solve psychological problems with the feel-good effects of chemical
Ulrike Theusner’s “Beautyqueens”
Uli and I share a horror of the child beauty pageant, which for me resulted in the following scene from VICIOUS SPRING: “I head out of the food court and bypass a mob clustered around the mall stage, which is really just a little platform. A yawning Miss Nashville stands by a table of fake gold crowns, waiting to crown
On the Perils of Being an East Block Punk Rocker…could your drummer be a Stasi informant??
From Razor, March 5, 2011 by Paul Boche: Swords into Ploughshares Punk in GDR times A separate development took place in East-Germany where Punk bands were rarely allowed to perform in public. They were also banned from challenging the establishment. During 1979 till 1989 Punks were a small but recognized phenomenon in the former German Democratic Republic. This led to 10
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