Good news... I just this minute found out that Steven Shaviro is giving a lecture at Goldsmiths on Friday afternoon. This is very very cool. Shaviro's Pinocchio Theory is a wonderful blog and always a blast to read: What can you say about a science fiction novel that begins with a first-person account of a 16-year-old girl masturbating with her gun? but his book Doom Patrols is fantastic. You can read the whole thing for free right here (and yes there is a Grant Morrison connection). He also let me know that Cormac McCarthy has a new novel coming out. Big news. McCarthy's work single handedly took my Master's degree from the well trodden path of Samuel Beckett to a very different place via Blood Meridian. Friday should be a blast. Haven't been to Goldsmiths in an age (actually since I gave a talk on comics there probably) and then later that evening we are having some very cool people over for a night of movies and conversation... Mike is writing to Nation of Ulysses