Fifty Shades of Grey - Sam Taylor-Johnson - 2015
Out of politeness I once allowed a man I didn’t really like to jizz on the crook of my arm. We sat... Read More...
Chris Kraus attends a dinner with her husband, Sylvere, and meets a man there called Dick. Dick flirts with Chris and she responds. The next day, inexplicably, ... Read More...
Bookselling is the business or practice of engaging in the trading of expert literary knowledge in exchange for meagre payment and/or some other benefit (ie. st... Read More...
Patti Smith - Horses - 1975
1974 was a pretty good year for music: Ramones, Blondie and Talking Heads were all forged in the bright white heat of prototype p... Read More...
You're a small town cop, jaded by your past. You left the city to escape painful memories, but trouble seems to have followed you.
These unexplained power su... Read More...
If you've ever been curious why poet Declan Ryan thinks Patrick Hamilton is a 'bell end', or why screen writer and journalist Michael Holden thinks daytime sex ... Read More...
On Thursday 6th October we'll once again be getting our kicks in Stepney. The Luxury Book Club literati will be congregating in Genesis Cinema for our next knee... Read More...
Described as 'the best rock star you've probably never heard of' (yet), Kristeen Young's otherwordly art-pop is fevered and visceral. Her voice ... Read More...
Scarlet West's wonderful memoir I'd Like To Thank Manchester Air Rifles documents her inner and outer life haunting the pubs of Soho. Scarlet is a compelling ... Read More...
An ardent film-devotee in a digital world, prolific fashion photographer Miles Aldridge still uses polaroids to pre-check and document his shoots. 'After a Pola... Read More...
'I love my murderer - but yours! How can I?'
2016 marks the bicentenary of Britain's most beloved literary family - the Brontës. Moved by the spirit of this si... Read More...
Poetic Places, launched this week by the British Library and TIME/IMAGE, is a free app that explores the relationship between literature and place in London... Read More...
Name Malene Engelund
Location Greenwich, London
Occupation Writer
What are you working on right now?
I have just published my poetry pamphlet The Wi... Read More...
For a massive fanboy like me, wearing a t-shirt bearing the name of my beloved isn't quite enough. I want a band shirt that vibrates on a much more sophisticate... Read More...
I'm a shocking abandoner of books. Oh, the nearly-finished literature I've left in my wake...
But there are some novels I know I'll complete before I've even... Read More...
Elvis Presley may be as famous as Jesus Christ or Coca-Cola, but to me he’s just the boy who broke my heart.
It was his beauty that first struck me, but it’s... Read More...
Frontlist/Backlist 3D and Genesis Cinema presents AND THE STARS LOOK VERY DIFFERENT TODAY…
On Saturday 23rd January we'll be putting on our red shoes and danci... Read More...
Katie Eary's AW16 collection is madly elegant with all the sex and sleaze of 1970s downtown New York City. Without a doubt, our favourite show f... Read More...
They had me at ‘car crash of cinema and geography’…
But if you do need to know anything more about Passengerfilms, they’re an award winning film society who se... Read More...
We always knew this day would come...
Or did we?
Many times I've said the words, 'I'll be so upset when David Bowie dies.' But a reassuring voic... Read More...
London Fields is Martin Amis' seminal work and the next novel on the Luxury Book Club reading list. It’s a murder mystery with an absence of mystery. We know th... Read More...
This is thoroughly off-the-grid living. Apparently it's paradise...We’ve been here less than twenty-four hours and I’ve already cried twice.
I love to ... Read More...
Lovers aren't for loving, they're for wounding and fucking. And dogs are for eating when the food runs out.
Ballard is undoubtedly one of the most significant ... Read More...
Our debut Luxury Book Club event took place last week and it was a raging success. The literati/glitterati gathered at Bar Paragon for some sparkling book-chat ... Read More...
Vaping can be defined as the act of inhaling vapor from e-liquid through a personal vaporizor .
As a reformed smoker, I now despise cigarettes, predic... Read More...
Despite having no prior interest in Nigella Lawson, I, along with the rest of the humanity, became fascinated by her during her 2013 court case. She turned up f... Read More...
I enjoy going for a drive. Not really looking for adventure... just driving around... I'm trying more and more to learn how to be alone.
- Rainer Werner Fassbi... Read More...
At the end of January in 1981, on the streets of Paris, I followed a man whom I lost sight of a few minutes later in the crowd. That very evening, quite by chan... Read More...
I am obsessed with the musky fragrances of Catholic rites. Comme des Garçons Incense Avignon is high mass.
I'm not an advocate of organised religion. I don't a... Read More...
