- Spike Magazine
Spike Magazine is an
internet cultural journal which began in1996 , founded by its editor Chris Mitchell inBrighton ,England . Updated monthly, its motto is "picking the brains of popular culture", though it has anintellectual inclination.Description
The focus of the magazine is mainly literary, and it features an extensive and eclectic back catalogue of book reviews, all available from the site's front page. It also includes features on a variety of subjects (including cinema and
politics ), music reviews, interviews, and the ongoing "blog " journal SplintersSpike has had contributors from around the world over the years making for very varied outlooks. The general tone however tends towards the counter-cultural, controversial and
left-wing , with a frequent championing of lesser-known writers. Nonetheless, Spike has managed to obtain interviews with a variety of big-name authors over the years, includingJ G Ballard ,Will Self ,Jeff Noon ,Iain Banks ,Hubert Selby Jr ,Gitta Sereny ,P J O'Rourke ,Quentin Crisp ,Nick Hornby andJulie Burchill .It contains separate sections devoted to news on Ballard, Noon, Self and
Irvine Welsh .Some of the main writers over the years have been Chris Mitchell himself, Stephen Mitchelmore, Ben Granger, Ismo Santala (the former three also having been regular contributors to the Splinters blog), Chris Hall, Gary Marshall, Eric Saeger, Ian Hocking, Robin Askew, Nick Clapson, Jayne Margetts, Craig Johnson, [http://www.katrinagulliver.com Katrina Gulliver] , Nathan Cain, Nick Clapson, Dan Coxon and Adam Baron.
External links
* [http://www.spikemagazine.com/index.php Spike Magazine]
* [http://www.spikemagazine.com/splinters/index.php Splinters]
* [http://www.britlitblogs.com/ britlitblogs.com]Independent Spike media profiles
* [http://www.thegoodwebguide.co.uk/index.php?rid=245 Good Web Guide overview]
* [http://www.britishcouncil.org/arts-literature-links-creative-reading.htm British Council overview]
* [http://www.writersreign.co.uk/Research/research.html Writers Reign overview]
* [http://www.pifmagazine.com/vol23/z_Spike.shtml Zine-o-Rama overview]
* [http://www.complete-review.com/links/intlinks.htm Complete Review overview]
* [http://www.33max.co.uk/literary_magazines_bookshops.html 33Max overview]
* [http://www.faber.co.uk/forwriters/agents.shtml Faber&Faber overview]
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