Stewart Home es un autor británico conocido por su enfoque satírico y vanguardista de la literatura. Sus obras a menudo parodian géneros convencionales, empleando técnicas como la apropiación de tropos pulp y el collage posmoderno. Home no teme experimentar con la forma, como lo demuestra su estilo de actuación poco convencional en las lecturas. Su escritura desafía a los lectores, obligándolos a confrontar su propia complacencia.
Ray 'The Cat' Jones, originally aspiring to be the middleweight boxing champion, became infamous as a legendary cat burglar. His notoriety stems from his daring escape from London's Pentonville Prison in 1958 and a series of bold thefts that captured public attention. This tale explores his transformation from a hopeful athlete to a notorious figure in the criminal underworld, highlighting his audacity and cunning.
Set on a canal linking Glasgow and Edinburgh, Young Adam is the masterly literary debut by one of the most important post-war novelists. Trocchi's narrator is an outsider, a drifter working for the skipper of a barge. Together they discover a young woman's corpse floating in the canal, and tensions increase further in cramped confines with the narrator's highly charged seduction of the skipper's wife. Conventional morality and the objective meaning of events are stripped away in a work that proves compulsively readable.
Merced Es Benz is an account of a dysfunctional love affair, narrated through SMS, email, Facebook, and Google search results. Set in a barely-credible pre-Olympic London, the story unfolds amidst Bow E3’s high-rises and east London’s art parties, where the offspring of the affluent indulge in 90s rave nostalgia. The remnants of a ‘virtual’ conversation serve as circumstantial evidence, revealing a ‘real’ intimacy behind a messy social media scandal that attracted tabloid attention. Iphgenia Baal’s non-fiction novel navigates the complex intersection of death, mourning, and Facebook, suggesting that downward mobility can be a more intoxicating, albeit less fatal, drug than heroin. This work is part of the Semina series, edited by Stewart Home, which has also featured authors like Bridget Penney and Jarett Kobek. After a journalism career that ended in 2008, Baal has focused on writing, with previous works including The Hardy Tree and Gentle Art, as well as serialised pieces like The Seedless Grape. Some of her writings have been adapted for film, including Heavy Vibrations. She has contributed to various publications and co-founded the imprint AKA. This title is published as part of Book Works’ Semina series (No.8), edited by Stewart Home.
The Art Strike Papers is a substantial collection of material produced in response to the Art Strike 1990-93. It is made up entirely of pieces which have appeared since the publication of The Art Strike Handbook in April 1989. While Stewart Home's outrageous Neoist Manifestos are prim source material for anyone studying the post-war avant-garde, many people will read them simply for their vitality and wit. Home was the chief theoretician of the Neoist group. He introduced rampant plagiarism to the movement and was the first participant to stress the importance of the written word in the propagation of Neoism. This volume brings together a selection of long unavailable material from issues 1 to 8 of Smile magazine. As well as Home's Neoist Manifestos, there are examples of his polemical writings from the period immediately before he joined the group and just after his break with Neoism. A sample of Home's poetry is included in an appendix.
Showcasing the world's finest music writers and revealing many outrageous secrets, this fascinating history spans an era that had its roots in the early days of jazz and blues, and stretches right up to the rockstars of today. Along the way we encounter a spectacular cast list: Jimi Hendrix, Elvis, Keith Moon, The Manic Street Preachers, Gram Parsons, The Rolling Stones, Patsy Cline, Jim Morrison, The Sex Pistols and Iggy Pop, to name but a few.
