Rather than commissioning pieces, the fourth issue of Beat the Dust was open to all writers to submit work. No theme – anything was considered. So, expect blasphemy, a gravedigger in Disneyland, Mark Ronson having sex with Lady GaGa on a piano, a dwarf pissing on dolphins, an actual message in a bottle thrown off the Isle of Wight Ferry and a child killer. Yep, it's creamy literary goodness, folks.
J: Peeping Tom (1960 – Michael Powell) A: Eraserhead (1977 – David Lynch) P: Don't Look Now (1973 – Nicholas Roeg) A: Smithereens (1982 – Susan Seidelman) N: Slivers (1975 – David Cronenberg)
Submission Date:
08 Dec 2009
Category:
Introduction
In Chap-book
Title:
Intro to The Banzai! Edition of Beat the Dust
Excerpt:
Japan has fascinated me ever since I was a bondage-trouser-wearing, spiky-haired, pogoing pretentious 15-year-old who when not carrying Camus’s The Outsider, Kafka’s The Castle, Sartre’s Nausea, or Genet’s Funeral Rites in my back pocket, carried Yukio Mishima’s The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea. These things – punk, literature, & Japan would later manifest itself in my interest in bands The Stalin, Boredoms, Frank Chickens & Shonen Knife, & writers Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Osamu Dazai, Yasunari Kawabata, Kenji Nakagami, Kobo Abe &, more recently, Ryu Murakami. English-language writers who write about Japan are also among my favourites – David Peace, David Mitchell, Kazuo Ishiguro & Donald Richie spring to mind. & now I live in Tokyo...
Joseph Ridgwell introduces the first Rebel edition of Beat the Dust.
Joseph Ridgwell, Lost Elationist and load the literary gun-runner, wrote the poetry collection 'Where are the rebels?'. His short fiction has been widely published online, including 3:AM Magazine, Dogmatika and The Beat.
Submission Date:
10 Jan 2009
Category:
Introduction
In Podcast and Chap-book
Title:
The Recession Session - Part I
Excerpt:
‘The aim of the writer is to transmute experience into art by any means necessary!’
So I shall begin. In today’s troublesome times - credit crunch, recession, depression, negative equity, deflation, and whatever other dick-fuck names the powers that be assign to a ph...
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