Robert Irwin: The Dabbling Dervish (The Dabbler)

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Robert Irwin is an English writer who has written six novels and numerous studies of different aspects of Islamic culture. He is also the M...

Review: Drawings from the Gulag by Danzig Baldaev (The Dabbler)

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Drawings from the Gulag begins unexpectedly, with a headshot of a proud homo-sovieticus from one of the USSR’s eastern minorities. Wearin...

Gorbushka- Moscow's One Stop Shop For Firearms And Pirate CDs (Sabotage Times)

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My favourite record shop was not a shop, but a once illegal open-air market in Moscow, Russia that went by the name ‘Gorbushka’. Legend ha...

Paradise Has Relocated (Foreword to the book and gallery show by photographer Sandy Carson)

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I well remember the media build-up to the assault from Hurricane Ike that wiped out so much of Galveston, Texas on September 13th 2008. “A ...

Authors, Social Media and the Allure of Magical Thinking (Publishing Perspectives)

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So anyway, I’ve got a great idea. Times are hard for publishers, therefore publicists should write books. No, really: they know what’s hot...

LONE STAR LUNCH: In Search of William S. Burroughs' Pea Field (Sabotage Times)

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I’d been interested in Edinburg, Texas (they dropped the ‘h’ in the 1930s) ever since I’d bought a souvenir mug in a junk shop that read:...

I Was A True Crime Addict (Guardian)

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A few years ago I took a break from my excessively wholesome diet of quality literature to go grazing in the world of trash. I read celebri...