KEVIN JACKSON

CARNALINSANELY READABLE – WILL SELFWELCOME TO THE LABYRINTH – IAIN SINCLAIR

Reviews of Kevin Jackson’s earlier booksInsanely readable Will SelfA polymath’s polymath A Modest ProposalSnappily written, erudite and extremely good fun to read SpectatorExpert, witty and far-reaching Fortean TimesElegantly written, and often very funny Mail on SundayA near-perfect summer book The New York TimesA sophisticated overview graced with intelligence and taste The TimesA sumptuous source of amusement or contemplation BooklistBuy one for all your friends and enemies. And welcome to thelabyrinth Iain SinclairWhimsical, witty and very entertaining The GuardianBrilliantly erudite and very funny Robert MacfarlaneA thorough yet fun compendium of all things blood-suckingEmpire ReviewAlmost every page yields something momentous or surprising of worth remembering, and the multitudinous footnotes, of which Jackson is a gleeful exploiter, add to the fun. Elegant and illuminating Literary ReviewPopular and high culture are equally celebrated in this Barnum’s Circus of a book Sunday TelegraphJackson should be ordered by higher powers to keep producingbooks like it Mark Thwaite, ReadySteadyBook.com

A veritable multiverse of odd scribblings, encompassing forgotten British filmmakers, cartoons andcomic strips, rigorous French theorists, the occult, street art, and internationally renowned photo-graphers, presented in playful essays that are at-once compulsively readable and formally sophisticated.Hanging out with Kevin Jackson, especially as he enters an appropriately un-dignified old age, is asclose to holding court with Samuel Johnson as is still possible. Kevin Flanagan, in the Introduction

I have heard it plausibly suggested that were the last 1,000 years of Western literary culture, and all of its cinematographic culture, to disappear from the earth, one of the things you’d need to be able to recreate it would be the contents of Kevin Jackson’s brain. Quite true; and it would moreover be avery interesting kind of Western culture: maybe a bit more vampire-heavy, more geared towards theesoteric than the canon has traditionally admitted; for although clearly a child of the Enlightenment,he has none of the disdain of the superstitious and (to use a word that he borrowed off the late JohnPeel, when the DJ imagined how George W Bush might mangle the word “spooky”) enspookulatingthat often comes with the territory. Nicholas Lezard, in the Preface

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CARNALby Kevin Jackson Trade Paperback 155 by 235 mm320 pp 978-1843681113£14.99 Autumn 2014

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