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Rock and counterculture: an interview with Benoît Delaune

The latest issue of The Odd Magazine contains an interview with French musician, teacher and writer Benoît Delaune, conducted by Gary Cummiskey. 

Born in 1973, Delaune wrote his PhD about William Burroughs and the use of the cut-up technique in the ‘Nova Trilogy’. He also wrote a short biography of Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, as well as theoretical texts and articles about the collage/montage aesthetics in literature, cinema and music. Between 1998 and 2003, he led a micro-publishing structure, Les éditions de la Notonecte, which released books by Claude Pélieu, Mary Beach, FJ Ossang and others. As a musician, he played in many avant-garde bands, close to free-rock and  improvisation. Nowadays he plays guitar, composes and creates artworks for his new band, Orgöne. He's also working on books by Claude Pélieu and Alain Jégou.

You can read the interview here, in both English and French.

'Pessoa's sister' by Gary Cummiskey in The Odd Magazine

Check out the latest issue of The Odd Magazine for a disquieting, surreal short story called 'Pessoa's sister' by Gary Cummiskey.

'Pessoa's sister' is the second story in the link.

The Odd Magazine #20 is out!

Great news - a stunning issue of The Odd Magazine has landed in cyberspace!

Do have a wonderful time going through this stellar issue, curated in a time when the world needs to fight the odds, more than ever before:

Odd Poetry: Adrian Manning, Arja Salafranca, Brian Rihlmann and Wayn F.Burke

Odd Shorts: Charlei Swailes, Gary Cummiskey, Kari Gillespie, Robert Keith and Yrik-Max Valentonis

Odd Art: Collaborations: Don Yorty-Md Akram, Jan Theuninck-Herman Van Rompuy, Margarita Serafimova-Milen Neykov , Neeti Banerji (Text and Art)

Odd Video: ‘Round Around’ – a film by Yogi Rajput

Odd Interview of Benoit Delaune by Gary Cummiskey (in English and French)

Pravasan Pillay's Chatsworth available on Made in Chatsworth

Pravasan Pillay's short story collection Chatsworth is also available on the website Made in Chatsworth!

Oedipus wept

Soon all will be revealed

The eagle has landed on the highway!

Wanna be shocked? Offended? Froth at the mouth?

Looking for a book that will shock you? Offend you?Get you frothing at the mouth? But even so, still having the makings of an underground classic?

Then Graeme Feltham's With the Safety Off might be just for you.

The novel is set in Yeoville, Johannesburg, in the mid-1990s. Enter Fig, a copywriter with a penchant for living on the edge – staying up all night, having casual sex and snorting cocaine. Drifting from seedy clubs to grotty flats, Fig continues his aimless odyssey … until the day he falls asleep in a client presentation and is fired.

Nine months later Fig is hooked on heroin and turns to drug-dealing for survival. If his previous lifestyle skirted close to the danger zone, it’s now gloves off as he drops all pretence of respectability and descends into a world of syndicates and violence.

From now on, he’s living with the safety off.

With introductions by Luke Feltham and James de Villiers.

220 pp.

ISBN 978-0-9869982-6-3

Available directly from Dye Hard Press. If you live in South Africa, the book can be courier to your door for R260.00.

Email dyehardpress@iafrica.com to order.

Chatsworth still on a roll!

Have just received an order for another five copies of Pravasan Pillay's Chatsworth! Along with Kobus Moolman's Left Over and the short story anthology The Edge of Things (edited by Arja Salafranca), Chatsworth is Dye Hard Press's most successful title by sales!

The presences in time

Proof copy of Thunder on the highway

Received a proof copy of Thunder on the highway from the printer today - it looks damn good! Designed by Arja Salafranca, Thunder on the highway is a chapbook of short, haiku-like poems, and will be limited to an edition of 50 copies.

Pricing and order details to follow.