Pamf-LIT: Anna-Marie
Send to KindleAre you a paperback or a kindle reader? Hardbacks, paperbacks, ebooks, post-its, scraps of paper… I’m usually years late on the uptake with electronic gadgets but an e-reader is...
View ArticlePamf-LIT: Jane Bradley
Send to KindleThis week we have a snoop around For Books’ Sake editor and founder Jane Bradley’s bookshelves… Do you read paperbacks or Kindle? I can definitely see the appeal of Kindles (especially...
View ArticleAll mouth and no trousers: sexist book covers again
Send to KindleAt bookclub we always end up talking about covers, particularly when we’re doing an older title which might have been published in several different editions over the years because we’ll...
View ArticlePamf-LIT: Sarah Drinkwater
Send to Kindle The Enchanted Hunters London style+fun blogger Sarah Drinkwater shares her bookshelf-secrets with us for our weekly column of literary inspiration and bookish confessions… Do you read...
View ArticleReview: Fifty Shades of Feminism
Send to KindleLast year, when Virago announced their Fifty Shades of Feminism project to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique, I was intrigued to see how the book...
View ArticlePamf-LIT: Robyn Wilder
Send to KindlePamf-LIT’s back after a week off for Easter! Here freelance writer and almost award-winning blogger Robyn Wilder shares her shelves, sci-fi secrets and hardback health and safety issues…...
View ArticleThe return of the Pamflet icons: peaches the musical et la nouvelle LP de...
I hung out with my favourite two bad-taste broads from the early 2000s last week: PEACHES at the Sundance Film Festival and MISS KITTIN launching her new album at XOYO. This was not a nostalgia-fest:...
View ArticleBook review: A Year in the Life of Face Hunter
Yvan Rodic’s long been one of my favourite streetstyle documenters, mostly for his dedication to and role in the mythologising of Sundays at Bric(k)-a-Brac Lane during the 2000s. Sundays used to be a...
View ArticleBooklust: Out of the Bidding at the English PEN Auction
How much would you pay for a book? Especially one the author’s written all over? This is what I was wondering as English PEN’s First Editions, Second Thoughts auction of revisited contemporary classics...
View ArticleSALON 1: HOW BAZAAR / ON THE COVER OF A MAGAZINE…
The first in our series of summer salons takes place on Tuesday 2nd July with Amanda Mackenzie Stuart, author of Empress of Fashion: A Life of Diana Vreeland. Amanda will be talking to us about Diana’s...
View ArticleI’m so XXcited
This weekend The XX take their Night + Day mini-fest project to Hatfield House in Hertfordshire. I would be going if I hadn’t done my history coursework on HH (meaning I can never go there again) and...
View ArticleComing up at the Pamflet Salon in August: BIRDS IN THE WOODS
Join us at Drink, Shop & Do for our next two summer salons! Scroll down to the end of the post to buy tickets. On Monday 5 August from 7-9.30pm we host BIRDS IN THE WOODS: Pamflet Salon with Katie...
View ArticleComing up at the Pamflet Salon in September: GENERATION F
On Wednesday 18 September from 7-9.30pm we’ll host our third event of the summer, GENERATION F: the Pamflet Salon with Judith Mackrell, author of Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation at Drink,...
View ArticleP-P-P-Pussy POWER: on screen + on the page
When Pussy Riot broke out on the internet last year, I was obviously going to be obsessed with them. Riot grrrl for the 2010s, dressed in Beyond-Retro-ish frocks and masked in fluro balaclavas, they...
View ArticleWhat is IT?
September is officially the beginning of Christmas in book world. It’s the month when lots of books get unleashed onto the autumn in the hope that they’ll find homes on gift lists in advance of the...
View ArticleWOW on the Southbank // International Day of the Girl
Friday 11 October marked the third International Day of the Girl. The team behind the Southbank Centre’s WOW (Women of the World) Festival celebrated the occasion by hosting an early morning...
View ArticlePamf-LIT: Beatrice Hitchman
Bristol-based Beatrice Hitchman‘s gorgeous and mysterious Paris-set debut Petit Mort was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2013 and compared to Angela Carter and Sarah Waters by critics. Its...
View ArticleReview: MADONNA NYC 83 by Richard Corman
‘Early in May 1983, I got a call from my mother, Cis Corman. She was casting Scorsese’s new film, The Last Temptation of Christ and she’d just auditioned a woman I really had to photograph. “She’s an...
View ArticleReview: Her Brilliant Career by Rachel Cooke
It might seem like this autumn’s been full of over-hyped, disappointing books, but there are still plenty of less flashy little wonders out there and Her Brilliant Career: Ten Extraordinary Women of...
View ArticleAnnouncement: Pamflet x Twin
After a short break over December and January (see Instagram for further details) we’re back blogging here at Pamflet and are also delighted to announce a special collaboration with our favourite style...
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