Prox: Are there any artists, books, movies/TV shows or music you’d like to recommend to the readers?
Alan Moore: I hardly ever watch movies or television, but I very much enjoy the work of Andrew Kötting (
Swandown, By Ourselves), Ben Wheatley (
Free Fire,
High-Rise,
A Field in England), and the increasingly rare outings of Chris Petit (
Radio On,
The Falconer). On TV I really liked the two seasons of
Utopia, am always delighted when Stewart Lee gets a new series of his
Comedy Vehicle, and continue to be very impressed by the writing of
Vince Gilligan on
Better Call Saul. The contemporary art world I know almost nothing of, but
Jimmy Cauty’s dioramas
of urban collapse and a coup d’état Police force are sobering and
wonderful in equal measure. Books make up the greater part of my
relatively few leisure activities: I would heartily recommend Iain
Sinclair’s
The Last London, and I’m eagerly anticipating both the follow-up to Michael Moorcock’s
Whispering Swarm – one of the best things he’s ever done – and the final volume of Brian Catling’s hallucinatory
Vorrh trilogy. I’ve also recently enjoyed a beautiful and compelling account of rearing a goshawk, Helen Macdonald’s
H is for Hawk,
which turned up in the mail from an unknown benefactor, and am
currently engrossed in Jane Jacobs’ masterful contrarian view of urban
planning,
The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Oh, and anybody out there who has not yet absorbed Jarett Kobek’s
i hate the internet should do so immediately if they hope to ever understand our current ridiculous historical predicament.
