Our Sunday Comics columnist reflects on the various origins of poor boys
As a storm approaches our Sunday Comics columnist finds himself between the bounties of the Gulf of Mexico, the one-size-fits-all supermarket and the sounds of spy planes overhead
Our Sunday Comics columnist dips his toes into the water and considers the social and sexual flexibility of the parrotfish, finding resonances with his own kind
Struck by malevolent storms our Sunday Comics columnist finds the ardour and expense of repairs compounded by the coordinated revolt of machines
Our columnist explores the language and the headlines of dying and killing, from Tibet to the United States to Iraq.
Buick returns in the final part of Jim Gabour's story from Blue Moons, Texas. (Start from the beginning of the story here)
Childhood friends Betty Daniels and Matty Sue Franklin - now both widows - are reunited in the public housing projects of Blue Moons, Texas. But Betty's son Buick is still missing in this seventh chapter of Jim Gabour's story.
In the sixth slice of life from Blue Moons, Texas we learn about a certain Estelle Flamingo and a moonlit leap of faith that brought into existence her child, Diana Flatrock, one Fourth of July. Start from the beginning of the story here.
Diana Flatrock dresses up to relive her confusing encounters with Buick and Anais Nin in a motel confessional before the local Methodist deacon. Diana's Dad Arty inisists on a form of punishment that, like Buick's abandoned Roadmaster, backfires. All this in the fifth part of a story about life an
Buick trades his guitar for a pair of boots and is on the road again, accomodating the presence of a hard-drinking literary guest as he tries to overcome the loss of Diana. Thinking on his feet helps him avoid a confrontation in this fourth part of the story. (Read chapters one, two and three).
In the third installment of the story, Betty's son Buick discovers the guitar and Diana Flatrock. Diana and Buick enter intimate and imagined territory, albeit accompanied two Parisian guests. (Read the first and second chapters)
In the second installment of the author's story of two childhood girlfriends we hear from Betty's prodigious son Buick Roadmaster, who begins to inhabit the voices of the Lost Generation in Paris. (Read the first chapter)
