Blue Ruin reading tonight, Brooklyn, Books are Magic, with the very fine Chris Bollen

Blue Ruin reading tonight, Brooklyn, Books are Magic, with the very fine Chris Bollen

Good to see that the quality of debate hasn’t suffered

'Hari Kunzru’s portrait of east London in the 1990s has real texture, grit and grunge rubbing up against the crude new money of the exploding art scene.'

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And me, introducing The Atrocity Exhibition (send me copies of the new edition 4th Estate Books !)

New from Hari Kunzru.

At last this beauty is here, the latest from Hari Kunzru if you’re thinking a lot about what it means to make art when everything feels corrupted, has been captured by money, here it is. It’s also a heck of a love story. Congrats Hari!

Tomorrow night Skylight Books I'll be reading from Blue Ruin and talking to Rachel Kushner - see you there, Angelenos skylightbooks.com/event/skylight…

Join us this Weds, 7pm, at City Lights! More info here: citylights.com/events/hari-ku… (If you can't join us in person, consider signing up for the livestream!)

Catch up on your reading with #OpenBook . Hari Kunzru on the 90s art scene and his new novel, Blue Ruin. Plus, the excellent Steph Merritt/S J Parris & William Shaw/GW Shaw author on the late CJ Sansom. BBC Radio 4 & BBC Sounds

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It was the most fictional of times

LA welcoming me with Pat Benetar on the driver’s radio. I might go out tonight to one of those clubs with a lot of blue light and Billy Idol clones in fetishwear and Michael Douglas in a v neck cashmere sweater

This is certainly clarifying

Hari Kunzru No work by any other contemporary author triggers such a feeling of confusion and vulnerability in me. Last time I felt this way was when I read Red Pill. I absolutly love it.