| Title | : | The Happy ReaderIssue 12 |
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| ISBN | : | 0241355281 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9780241355282 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 66 |
| Publication | : | First published December 6, 2018 |
LAURIE ANDERSON became a household name in 1981, when her 8-minute avant-garde monologue ‘O Superman’ became the world’s strangest-ever hit single. Anderson, now 71, is an artist whose work encompasses whatever she needs it to, from performance to music, from CD-ROM to virtual reality. Interviewed in Denmark, she discusses the dizzying breadth of her reading habits, which underpin everything she does, her useful belief in multiple realities, and the old Kindle she carries from her late husband, LOU REED.
FRANKENSTEIN by MARY SHELLEY was published exactly two hundred years ago. Two archetypes — the manmade monster and the mad scientist who created him — have been loping around in the collective unconscious ever since. To honour this incredible act of literary invention, part two of this issue presents a sequence of monsters, as fed through various prisms of association, and emerging as everything from chatbots to man bags. Contributors include GEOFF DYER, JEFFREY LEWIS, JEAN HANNAH EDELSTEIN and JUSTIN E. H. SMITH.
FRANKENSTEIN by MARY SHELLEY was published exactly two hundred years ago. Two archetypes — the manmade monster and the mad scientist who created him — have been loping around in the collective unconscious ever since. To honour this incredible act of literary invention, part two of this issue presents a sequence of monsters, as fed through various prisms of association, and emerging as everything from chatbots to man bags. Contributors include GEOFF DYER, JEFFREY LEWIS, JEAN HANNAH EDELSTEIN and JUSTIN E. H. SMITH.
The Happy ReaderIssue 12 Reviews
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Really great conversation about books and other important things in life, this time with Laurie Anderson. The only downside of it - too short!
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Another good issue. Laurie Anderson was a really good interviewee for a bookish magazine, which can't be said of all of the issues unfortu ately.
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...i don't just love this magazine because it counts towards my reading challenge...
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The winter 2018 issue (now sadly published biannually rather than quarterly) has an interview with Laurie Anderson at the front and articles using Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as the jumping off point at the back. I always prefer the interviews although some of the articles can be quite interesting.
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looking forward to the newest edition
