Wednesday, 14 August 2013

Barnett Newman/Penguin Plays

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When they’re this sparse (and this contrasty) Penguin Plays paperbacks really remind me of Barnett Newman.


Monday, 12 August 2013

William Haggard: The Telemann Touch


From 1966: A radioactive green Penguin Books logo on the front cover (the main photograph is taken, I believe, from p.102 of ‘How Not to Take Photographs At Night’). What irks me most though are the blurb colours on the back cover. Crazy! (in a very low-key way).


Depeche Mode/Electronic Beats

Sunday, 4 August 2013

Literary Condiments


This caught my eye in one of our many local supermarkets today. How I wish this was some kind of celebrity sauce cash-in by Anthony Burgess. If it was, imagine how complex the recipe would be (and full of references too, although half of them would be to Beethoven).