Greg Palast's gorgeous new book lands on my desk
All the hallmarks are there -
Extraordinary ornate faux-national pride style rants filled to the brim with the glib epithets and sounbytes we have received in our faces from day one - Palast strings them all together to demonstrate that the truth is eclipsed by abrupt quotation so many times.
Soundbytes stop you hearing the whole thing.
Artwork by Winston Smith. You don't get more punk than that.
And wonderfully named chapters - often long enough themselves to be merited as either sentences or paragraphs.
And he's extended his book tour in the UK - here are the new dates:
sun. july 2. North London
mon. july 3. London, Picadilly
tues. july 4. London / Chatham
House Lecture
weds. july 5. Edinburgh,
Scotland
thurs. july 6. Manchester
I guess the picadilly date is going to be Waterstones. Rest assured I'll be there.