HeyJaredRichard Foster - The Game of PINS
My personal Substack, documenting my take on my father's never-finished game of PINS. Other writings now and again about the Netherlands, my books, and my art.
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Spiders and Flies (opens the original)
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I am very happy to announce that the publication of my new book Spiders and Flies, my third, will happen on March 3rd 2027. It’s published by the redoubtable Ortac Press. Pre orders are most welcome, obviously. https://www.ortacpress.com/product-page/spiders-and-flies Ostensibly it tells of my experiences as a “participant” in the Dutch alternative and underground music worlds of the Noughties and Twenty-tens. Like many things I write about in the Netherlands, that world is almost completely van
Review: John Robb - Punk Rock Ruined My Life. (opens the original)
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Near the end of his latest book, Punk Rock Ruined My Life, John Robb imagines a world in which he will become a humming hologram, an “AI image pulsating on the eternal jukebox”, a being made of code who will “slip into the future city where our minds will be cosmic cyberpunk locked into eternal communication”. At its beginning, Robb describes his teenage self dodging under the arc of the waves as they crashed along the promenade in a northern suburb of Blackpool, thrilled by the danger and possi
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