Odysseus Someone recently asked on the Spike forum if we could try and get an interview with sci-fi god Arthur C. Clarke. Well, we haven't managed it, but The Guardian has - they ran an extensive interview with the man yesterday that's also available online . As you're no doubt aware, it's Banned Books week this week, where censorship comes under scrutiny and the power of writing gets recognised. The excellent January magazine has a useful feature on Banned Books, including the American Library Association's 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of the 90s. If you've any other suggestions for sites celebrating Banned Books week, why not post them on the Spike forum .
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As the title suggests, the exhibition includes pieces from all Jarman's major films such as The Last of England, Jubilee and Blue. You can read Spike's semi-legendary account of Derek Jarman's life and work here. FC has been published episodically on the Web, combining lush illustration with tradtional text narrative, and has had a pretty rapturous reception. It'll be a fair old while before the book comes out, but you can read Frightening Curves online already. We've got a Will Self interview due to be published on Spike very shortly about Sore Sites, his collection of columns for that selfsame magazine and his new novel How The Dead Live.