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Ian Penman
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NEW BOOK: Erik Satie Three Piece Suite (Fitzcarraldo + Semiotexte) 24.4.25 | LAST BOOK: Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors | NEXT BOOK ...
"Where is North from here?"
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    Ian Penman
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    Ian Penman
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    Jul 13, 2018
    Trump says that carefree "English" culture has all but disappeared under grim PC clamp down at same time as Giant Orange Baby Balloon launches, a Dalek with a bad wig patrols Whitehall & Anglo Saxon epithets turn the English summertime air joyously robustly blue.
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    Ian Penman
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    Jul 22, 2021
    • 55 attempts to mix the Babylon Sisters fade • 46 takes for drums on title track • Walter Becker's vrs & heavy problems • The Second Arrangement fiasco • Bernard Purdie • Wendel • Keith Jarrett Why isn't there a 15 part Netflix drama/doc on #Gaucho I can watch right now?
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    Ian Penman
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    Oct 16, 2023
    Bless my cotton socks I'm in The New Yorker! On the highs and lows of Lou Reed ... | @NewYorker |
    The Stubborn Mysteries of Lou Reed
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    Ian Penman
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    Sep 22, 2022
    Yes, it is indeed true. Not only did I finally write my #Fassbinder book, but I did so *without smoking a single cigarette*. Pretty sure people have been given Pulitzers for less. Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors, out April 2023. @FitzcarraldoEds
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    Ian Penman
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    Sep 15, 2018
    Rodney Bewes & Ian La Frenais, St James Park, 1973 #LikelyLads
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    Ian Penman
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    May 10, 2023
    Wow. I know it's a bit 'Well, he would say that, wouldn't he?' but this is just a beautiful long-read review of the Fassbinder book (& much more besides) ... |
    Ian Penman’s Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors Is a Love Letter to Postwar Counterculture
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    Ian Penman
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    May 16, 2024
    Not Faye Dunaway, amazingly, but me ... minutes after learning Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors has also just won a #JamesTaitBlack Prize! Photo: Nicola Roberts x
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    Ian Penman
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    Apr 8, 2024
    Absolutely blown away that Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors has been long-listed for the Royal Society of Literature/Ondaatje Prize and short-listed for the James Tait Black Prize.
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    Ian Penman
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    Nov 24, 2018
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    Roeg tale: he was DP on FarFromTheMaddingCrowd. In middle of Wessex countryside he looked up & saw sublime vision: a pure white horse, perfectly posed atop a hill. Swung camera round, but it was gone. Ancient local extra eyed him beadily & said "You *weren't meant to see* that."
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    Ian Penman
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    Dec 15, 2021
    The Omicron Variant (1967).
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    Ian Penman
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    Nov 24, 2018
    Oh... Nic Roeg. Awesome talent, but also one of the loveliest people I met in my professional life. Last time I bumped into him after decade+ & his eyes lit up & he nearly smothered me in big bear hug. (NB: this is pretty rare occurence with people I've interviewed.) #RiP ❤️
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    Ian Penman
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    May 16, 2024
    Still coming down to earth from fantastic night at the #RSLOndaatjePrize on Tuesday. Lovely to meet the other writers + @RSLiterature judges, but personal highlight may have been the venerable Francis Spufford telling me he was a teenage NME reader. #RWF @FitzcarraldoEds
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