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Bibliomaniac; She and Her Cat; The Babel Message In brief: Bibliomaniac; She and Her Cat; The Babel Message
What happens when mirth turns to murder? When the screams are not from joy, but flesh-ripping pain? Dead Funny is an audacious anthology, featuring tales of terror from some of the brightest lights in UK comedy. Award winners Robin Ince and Johnny Mains team up for this unique exploration of the relationship between comedy and horror to see if they do, as believed, make the most comfortable of bedfellows. What happens when mirth turns to murder? When the screams are not from joy, but flesh-ripping pain? Dead Funny: Encore is the second helping of monstrous tales from the brightest lights in UK comedy. Award winners Robin Ince and Johnny Mains team up for this second exploration of the relationship between comedy and horror, the dark follow up to 2014’s smash hit debut, Dead Funny. So what is the bibliomaniac currently reading? “The first one is Invisible Painting ,” says Robin. “It’s about the great British-Mexican surrealist painter and author Leonora Carrington, and was written by her son, Gabriel Weisz Carrington. I’m also reading Myths of Gender: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality by Anne Fausto Sterling, who’s a very interesting biologist and kind of activist. And I’ve just started re-reading Good Morning Midnight by Jean Rhys, because I think I might choose it for the book club. Plus, I’m reading Anna Minton’s Ground Control: Fear and Happiness in the 21 st Century .”An enjoyable trip round the independent book stores of the UK by rail. I read it in a bit of stop /start fashion but enjoyed it overall. There are moments of humour, of slight melancholy which I think the author sufferers from a bit on his solo travels - these are recovered once he engages with the owners and visitors to the bookshops.
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The people who are drawn to the shows cover all ages from teenagers to people in their 80s and 90s, but I can see this beautiful line of curiosity running through them all,” he says. “It’s a celebratory, optimistic environment where people feel free to express what’s on their mind.” Exploring the human brain's relationship with reality, the show features Ince talking about his ADHD and how he sings to himself in a made-up language In 2005, Ince began running the Book Club night at The Albany, London, where acts are encouraged to perform turns of new and experimental material. The club gets its name from Ince's attempts to read aloud from, and humorously criticise, various second-hand books which the audience brought in for the occasion. The Book Club proved to be so successful that Ince took it on a full UK tour in 2006. In 2010, Ince published a book entitled Robin Ince's Bad Book Club about his favourite books that he has used for his shows. I am extremely jealous of Robin's year. Can you imagine anything better than this being your job, to read books, visit lovely bookshops in lovely towns, accumulating wonderful books, and then talking to people about science, books and art? And being fed cake? I get to do a tiny bit of all this, but no, not to this level of perfection. It's a travelogue of Britain but via independent bookshops. And lots of asides about books, if you want book recommendations well there are more than you could imagine. Anecdotes, interesting characters and mostly just a sense of warmth and goodwill.I love a book that introduces me to new words, in this case ‘mither’ (make a fuss) and ‘ginnel’ (a narrow passage between buildings). Now I just have to introduce them into my vocabulary! Someone asked me the other day why I don’t have any hobbies,” says Robin. “I replied that hobbies are a requirement if the work you do isn’t something you truly love. I don’t need a hobby because I absolutely love hanging around with book people, hanging around with scientists, wandering around and creating silly ideas. That is my hobby and that is my life.” Is hideous prose and ghastly poetry more fabulous than great literature? Determined to find out, award-winning comedian Robin Ince has spent most of the 21st century rummaging through charity shops, jumble sales, and even the odd skip to compile the defining collection of the world’s worst inadvertently hilarious books. Something that we’re terrible at in Britain, and particularly in England, is excitement,” he says. “We have a fear of genuine delight. Everyone’s very good at laughing loudly in a scary way late at night drunk on a train, but that vulnerability of exposing yourself in the cold light of day by saying ‘I love this!’ is something we often fear. I love exploring ideas that stay with people and encourage us all to investigate the world more. I find that very exciting.” From Wigtown to Penzance, the comedian, author and broadcaster Robin Ince has been popping into bookshops across Britain and quite possibly having the time of his life. Yet while his Bibliomaniac bookshop tour has been one of the best things to happen to him, it developed entirely by chance.
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