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Oct 21, 2022
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London in Bits
On the trail of Jai Paul
Welcome to another special contributor issue of London in Bits. All contributors to LiB are paid a base rate of £200, and that’s only possible because of the support we get from your subscriptions. So, thank you very much for helping us continue to publish independent writing on London…
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a year ago · 1 like · The LiB team
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Things to look forward to in 2023 part two
Welcome to the first LiB of 2023. As promised, the first issue of the year is a follow up to the last issue of 2022, as it’s the second part of our pick of the restaurants, exhibitions and shows to look forward to over the next 12 months. Here’s part one in case it got lost in the festive mix…
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a year ago · 2 likes · The LiB team
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Things to look forward to in 2023 part one
Hello, and we hope you’re having a lovely break. We are back for a quick, twixmas edition of LiB. This year we’re splitting our ‘things to look forward to’ over two issues, as trying to fit ten exhibitions, ten shows and ten restaurants into one email is a bit of a squeeze…
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a year ago · 1 like · The LiB team
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Surface Depth
Welcome to another special contributor issue of London in Bits. All contributors to LiB are paid a base rate of £200, and that’s only possible because of the support we get through reader subscriptions. A LiB subscription costs £5 a month or £50 a year, so if you’ve been enjoying the free issues then please consider subscribing so we can keep paying people to write about London in the way it deserves to be written about…
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a year ago · 3 likes · The LiB team
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Going underground with London's most unsettling podcast
It’s a slightly different Monday issue this week. Instead of the usual news-focused issue, we have an interview with the man behind one of our favourite new podcasts, Subterraneans. This is normally the kind of content you’d find in our Wednesday issue, but we think…
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2 years ago · 5 likes · The LiB team
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Parks and wreck?
Welcome to another special contributor issue of London in Bits. All contributors to LiB are paid a base rate of £200, and that’s only possible because of the support we get through reader subscriptions. A LiB subscription costs £5 a month or £50 a year, so if you’ve been enjoying the free issues then please consider subscribing so we can keep paying people to write about London in the way it deserves to be written about…
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It's the end of the world and you should go to it
If you read our last Weekend Roundup then you’ll know that London’s latest ‘immersive art experience’ has been getting a lot of press recently. David Hockney: Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away) at the Lightroom in King’s Cross has benefited hugely from comparisons to previous exhibitions like…
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a year ago · The LiB team
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Exploring the secret geographies of London
In March 2020, the artist, writer and podcaster Huw Lemmey opened a new issue of his utopian drivel newsletter with these words: “For the past few weeks I’ve been starting work on a new long-term research project, something that will hopefully end up as a film. It doesn’t have a name yet – it’s all just going into a google drive folder named ‘gay spies…
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2 years ago · The LiB team
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This Bakerloo Line train will not stop at 1996
In today’s edition of London in Bits, editor Rob Hinchcliffe writes about the recent return of the ‘hypertext novel’ 253, and how this early example of networked fiction not only helped him get to grips with London, but also showed him the Web’s potential to bring people together…
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Keeping the music alive
Over the past few weeks we have accidentally created a short series of articles devoted to the power of physical spaces. We’ve looked at the influence of the short-lived but highly influential Partisan coffee shop, and revisited the King’s Road of the early 70s…
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2 years ago · The LiB team
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15 things to look forward to for the rest of the year
At the end of last year we published our ‘Things to Look Forward to in 2022’ issue, which featured ten exhibitions, ten shows and ten restaurant openings, all of which had a decent shot at happening over the next 12 months: Now, as we edge closer to the (official) end of summer, we thought we’d do an autumn/winter version of that post, so you can start planning how to fill those chilly evenings (assuming you have some disposable income left after you’ve paid the heating bill…
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2 years ago · 1 like · The LiB team
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A conversation with Charlie Baker, editor of The Fence
Despite running a digital newsletter, we are unashamed fans of hardcopy magazines, especially independent hardcopy magazines that are funny, smart, well-designed and published out of London. For all those reasons and more we’ve been subscribers to The Fence…
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2 years ago · 2 likes · 1 comment · The LiB team
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Art without the galleries
It feels like we can finally say that summer has arrived this week. To celebrate we’ve put together a guide to the artistic offerings don’t require you to spend time in a gallery that was stuffy even before they saw the electricity bill and turned the air conditioning off. An added bonus: everything in here is completely free to see…
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2 years ago · The LiB team
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Welcome to the jungle (aka Wardour Street)
‘The reason I liked the Marquee was because it was scruffy and a hellhole, and your feet stuck to the floor, and that’s exactly what a rock and roll club should be like.’ - Lemmy That’s the quote that opens Marquee: The Story of the World’s Greatest Music Venue…
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a year ago · The LiB team
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London book gift guide 2022
Last week we put together a list of some of our favourite London-themed non-fiction books of 2022. For the second half of our literary gift guide we’ve got five of our favourite works of London-centric fiction for you. Plus, we managed to rope in two of our favourite London authors…
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a year ago · 5 likes · The LiB team
London in Bits
London book gift guide 2022
Last week we put together a list of some of our favourite London-themed non-fiction books of 2022. For the second half of our literary gift guide we’ve got five of our favourite works of London-centric fiction for you. Plus, we managed to rope in two of our favourite London authors…
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a year ago · 5 likes · The LiB team
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The Peckham Experiment
Guy Ware is a critically acclaimed novelist whose previous books include The Fat of Fed Beasts (2015), Reconciliation (2017) and The Faculty of Indifference (2019). His short stories have been anthologised in the Best British Short Stories and, in 2018, he won the London Short Story Prize…
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a year ago · 3 likes · The LiB team
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Mapping London, from Brutalism to Birch trees
There are two independent publishers we consistently turn to go when we want to buy gifts for other Londoners. One is Cafe Royal Books, who publish incredible titles like Notting Hill Sound Systems and Spitalfields 1977. The other is Blue Crow Media who have been producing gorgeously designed and thoughtfully curated maps of London for…
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2 years ago · The LiB team
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Author Gemma Seltzer on writing women’s experiences in London
Welcome to the free Monday edition of London in Bits. LiB is an independent publication that is only made possible through paid subscriptions. Paid subscribers can also access the entire back catalogue of paywalled articles, including our recent look at…
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2 years ago · 4 likes · The LiB team
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Things to look forward to in 2022
Hi again! Hope you’re having a lovely break. For our final issue of the year we’ve compiled a list of some exciting things to pencil in your 2022 calendar. There’s ten exhibitions, ten shows and ten restaurant openings, all of which will almost definitely…
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2 years ago · The LiB team
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The writer single-handedly making London spookier
Welcome to your free Monday edition of London in Bits. LiB is an independent publication that is made possible through your support. As a paid subscriber you get access to three issues a week including the bumper Weekend Roundup that includes all the arts and food & drink news…
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2 years ago · 1 like · The LiB team
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London book gift guide part 1: Non-Fiction
Welcome to your mid-week issue of London in Bits. LiB is an independent publication that is only made possible through paid subscriptions. If you’re not a subscriber already and you want to read this and past issues (like our recent conversation with…
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2 years ago · 1 like · The LiB team
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London book gift guide part 2: Fiction
Welcome to your mid-week issue of London in Bits. LiB is an independent publication that is only made possible through paid subscriptions. If you’re not a subscriber already and you want to read this and past issues (like our recent conversation with…
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2 years ago · The LiB team
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Interviewing the founder of London's newest radio station
Before we start, a quick note to let you know that we’re taking a week off next week. After this Saturday’s roundup the next LiB will be on Monday 11 October. And now on with our scheduled programming… In last weekend’s roundup we told you about Loose.FM…
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3 years ago · 2 likes · The LiB team