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Rose McLaren is an artist in London.



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Talk Into My Bullet Hole

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July 2015

Rose McLaren

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July 2015

‘Someday people are going to read about you in a story or a poem. Will you describe yourself for those people?’ ‘Oh, I don’t...

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May 2014

Art Does Not Know a Beyond: On Karl Ove Knausgaard

Rose McLaren

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May 2014

Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle has an oddly medieval form: a cycle, composed of six auto-biographical books about the...

I first met William Burroughs in 1963 I was working for a now defunct literary magazine called Transatlantic Review and we were planning to publish a piece of his called ‘The Beginning is also the End’ I’d proposed doing a drawing of Burroughs for the cover and the editor of TR had agreed and so I went round to see him in a tiny hotel room in Princes Square, Bayswater, which I gathered Alex Trocchi had found for him Trocchi put his head round the corner at some stage to check that the room was okay I remember Trocchi saying that ‘you couldn’t go far wrong here, Bill, not on three pounds a week’ This was what the hotel cost, it being more like a run-down rooming house than a hotel   Bill had come to England from Tangier principally to take a heroin cure which he had set great store by The cure had been devised by a Dr John Yerbury Dent of the British Journal of Addiction and consisted of apomorphine which was apparently morphine boiled in hydrochloric acid ‘It works as a total body emetic,’ Bill explained, ‘if you even have even the remotest whiff of heroin your whole body throws up’   He insisted that Dr Dent’s formula was working although I couldn’t help noticing that he seemed keen on a cough mixture called Breathe-Eezee which contained morphine, and I’m not sure that he wasn’t also taking Collis Brown, a popular cure-all, which in those days used to have morphine in it as well   I did the drawing which was published along with Bill’s story and from then on saw quite a bit of him He invited me to see Fellini’s 8 ½ at what was then the International Cinema in Westbourne Grove He was silent for a good while afterwards and then halfway up Queensway turned and said drily with his expressionless Buster Keaton face, ‘Yep, those Italians really know what life is about’   He was interested in how you could make maps of the human personality and gave me a copy of something called The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, a

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August 2014

Rose McLaren

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August 2014

Rose McLaren is an artist in London.

The Prosaic Sublime of Béla Tarr

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Issue No. 6

Rose McLaren

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Issue No. 6

I have to recognise it’s cosmical; the shit is cosmical. It’s not just social, it’s not just ontological, it’s really huge. And that’s why we...
Stalker, Writer or Professor? Geoff Dyer's Zona and Genre

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February 2012

Rose McLaren

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February 2012

‘So what kind of a writer am I, reduced to writing a summary of a film?’ wonders Geoff Dyer half way through Zona. Such...

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April 2017

The Lovers

Devyn Defoe

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April 2017

Everyone who asks questions, asks in some way about love. The question is one half, the answer the other....

poetry

May 2012

FINALLY RICH

Sam Riviere

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May 2012

I got a job I got a job writing poems oh hi I never met you before going to...

fiction

April 2014

by Accident

David Isaacs

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April 2014

[To be read aloud]   I want to begin – and I hope I don’t come across as autistic...

 

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