Yatterings

Ned Beauman over at the Guardian has run this piece on noir graphic novels. It is an intriguing, if really short, overview of the problems of creating noir fiction and he mentions some excellent writers, like Brian Bendis and Warren Ellism though he does miss David Lapham.  I’m not sure he really gets his teeth [...]

The New Yorker has a piece on Philip K Dick (which the Total Dickhead blog caught). It is an interesting piece that takes Dick’s work for, well, Dick’s work.

I was going to hold off posting about these until I’d finished reading the book but the John Crace has a digested read of Spook Country and Tim Adams interviewed him in the Observer.