have you actually read his books?
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 26 August 2015 21:22 (eight years ago) link
https://thequietus.com/articles/30314-jon-savage-englands-dreaming-teenage-1966-owen-hatherley-interview
His perspective is so thought-provoking and really resonates with me.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Sunday, 8 August 2021 19:57 (two years ago) link
That was a very interesting interview. Makes me want to read Teenage, but not 1966. England's Dreaming I've had for years.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 8 August 2021 21:52 (two years ago) link
1966 is pretty solid, I'd say give that a whirl. And yes to England's Dreaming, had the paperback run of that forever -- picked it up in 1992 when I visited the UK for the first time.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 8 August 2021 23:07 (two years ago) link
more than "pretty solid", 1966 is his best book IMO -- the interview doesn't really do it justice bcz it gets derailed into a (yes justified but also irrelevant) hate-fest against the very bad tory social historian dominic sandbrook
(this also means the much trickier question that hatherley asks -- abt the left-revisionist treatment of the 70s (historians beckett and edgerton) -- doesn't get explored)
― mark s, Tuesday, 10 August 2021 09:08 (two years ago) link