Category: Notes

Tributes!

The Cultural Gutter‘s gotten some nice tributes and support for Gutter-A-Go-Go. Please check out posts from Die Danger Die Die Kill!, Exploder Button and shout outs from Monster Island Resort Podcast (just before a discussion of gore with Sarah from Gorepress Gorecast) and Traumatic Cinematic Podcast (as they […]

Apple, Nudity and e-Books

At The Globe and Mail, Michael Posner writes on Apple’s corporate censorship of Peter Ovig Knudsen’s books, Hippie 1 and 2. “The Hippie book controversy follows a series of similar attempts by Apple to censor–or deny market access–to artistic material it deems offensive.”

“Writing Noir Fiction in Asia

At Pulp Curry, novelist and journalist Andrew Nette muses on crime fiction set in Asia, in particular China and Cambodia. “What does it mean for the story and characters when your crime fiction is set in a country where corruption and extreme violence are regular features of everyday […]

“The Pagan Pilgrim”

Ronnie Pontiac writes a fascinating essay on Thomas Morton, inciter of Puritans and founder of the Enlightenment Utopian experiment Ma-re Mount, “the American melting pot boiling hot” in the New World: “In May 1627 Tom decided to celebrate May Day with the locals. There would be food, drink, […]