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My photo shoot and extended interview with GQ Magazine + GAP.
People to Know: Farewell Natalia Gorbanevskaya, Russian activist, 1936-2013
Farewell Natalia Gorbanevskaya, someone I came to know at the Prague Writers’ Festival. One of 8 to stare down Soviet tanks in Red Square, upon the invasion of the Czech Republic. She paid with forced psychiatric incarceration and injections.
Her work, poems and features here at PWF.
[excerpt from] ‘Spring Edits, Velvet Living: Atwood, Kral and Gorbanevskya’ ONE Magazine, Scotland
That evening, Natalia Gorbanevskaya had been given the Spiros Vergos Prize for Freedom of Expression. Gorbanevskaya’s story made me sit up, and take note: on 25 August 1968, she and seven fellow Moscovites went to Red Square to protest the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Gorbanevskaya and compatriots sat peacefully in Lobnoye Mesto with a Czech flag and signs which read “We Lost Our Best Friends”, “Hands Off the CSSR” and “For Your Freedom and Ours”. In turn they were accosted [Read more…]
Pretty Broken Punks: lipstick, leather jeans, a death of New York
“Full of great memories, names, observations. It brought it all back. Don’t change a word…” –MICHAEL MUSTO, The Village Voice
“A lithely written, honest and perceptive account of a unique time.” –IAIN BANKS
Welcome to my online polemic parlour. Living room. Thing.
Banksophilia.com: Farewell Project for a Good Friend.
Iain Banks left the world too soon. Before he did, we were able to put up a web site that continues to gather your letters, many of which he was able to read.
Get the details, BBC interview clip and links here: martinbelk.com/banksophilia-iain-banks/