Kill Your Timid Notion

Kill Your Timid Notion is one of Europe's leading festivals of sound and image, with renowned experimental film-makers and musicians investigate the borders between what you hear and what you see via live performances and film screenings at the ICA, the BFI Southbank and the BFI IMAX. Kjell Bjørgeengen, Keith Rowe and Philipp Waschmann create an environment in which sound is looped through oscillators, violin, a radio, guitar pick-ups and specially constructed video amps to create flickering images and colour fields that play with your persistence of vision.

Sunday 30th November at the ICA.

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Flash Fiction

Flash fiction is fiction of extreme brevity. While there is no universally-accepted word limit, generally flash fiction is a short story of 1,000–2,000 words. Most flash-fiction pieces run between 250 and 1,000 words. By contrast, traditional short stories are often as long as 3,000 to 10,000 words and can have as many as 17,500 words before being considered novellas or novels. Flash fiction is, however, primarily defined by the intent that it be read at a single short sitting. Other names for flash fiction include sudden fiction, microfiction, micro-story, postcard fiction, and short short story, though distinctions are sometimes drawn between some of these terms; for example, sometimes 1,000 words is considered the cut-off between "flash fiction" and the slightly longer "sudden fiction".

See also: how it differs from a vignette and other etcs.

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Do Not Pass Go

An artwork by street artist Banksy in central London will be removed to send a message to graffiti artists in the city, a council has decided.

Westminster City Council has ordered a 23ft-high (7m) mural, entitled One Nation Under CCTV, to be removed from a building on Newman Street.

Sending a message to graffiti artists. Is this the mafia?

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if:book Group Salon

IF:BOOKGROUP SALON - NOVEMBER 13th venue tbc but somewhere central london   THEME: (DIGITAL) REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL IN THE FACE OF SLUMP - Discuss Free - places limited, contact chrisatfutureofthebookdotorgdotuk to book one of them

Keep track of venue details here.

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Ron Silliman Dreams

This man has been having Ron Silliman Dreams.

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Mamma Mia Let Me Go

Cambridge University did a 12-hour non-stop reading of Milton's Paradise Lost yesterday. A full podcast will be available to download from here soon, if you have a spare day handy.

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Monk and Halsey USA Tour

You ever wish the world was smaller.

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''Ello my son, do you wanna lolly?'

via Caustic Cover Critic

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Langoustine

Saturday 8th November 7:30pm

Poetry Cafe 22 Betterton Street Nearest tube: Covent Garden £5/£4 conc.

• Jamika Ajalon
• Olumide Poopola
• Valeria Melchioretto
• Shanta Acharya
• Frances Kruk
• Ziba Kirbassi
• Sophie Robinson

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Sentence Generator

'The synapse came to life out of a need for experiences.' via Jow Lindsay's e-mail.

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