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Hammett Story Agency

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About Me

I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)HAMMETT STORY AGENCY: Named in homage to the 1920s/1930s American detective story writer Dashiell Hammett, the Hammett Story Agency is a collaboration between JAY CLIFTON, storyteller, and SAM COLLINS, musician. Formed in February 2004, Hammett (for short) have performed at the Marlborough Theatre, Zoot Street bar, The Sanctuary Cafe and other venues around Brighton before becoming regular guests of The Permanent Gallery. In performance Sam provides a soundtrack (with a guitar style somewhere between Ry Cooder and Robert Quine) to Jay's stories, which often-as-not deal with desperate characters in tough spots. The Hammett Story Agency have also been running a monthly short story and poetry night, TIGHT LIP, at the Permanent Gallery since June 2005. The night provides a platform for serious writers who wish to develop their work in an appreciative setting. Our night has attracted established writers of the calibre of CATHI UNSWORTH, MAXIM JAKUBOWSKI, DAVID L. HAYLES, TOBY LITT, MATT THORNE, MARTYN WAITES, BARRY ADAMSON, MAX DECHARNE, KEN HOLLINGS and STEWART HOME. Guests lined up for the new season of Tight Lip, June 08- June 09, include JOOLZ DENBY, BETHAN ROBERTS and CHINA MIEVILLE.www.tightlip.co.ukwww.permanentgallery.com

My Interests

Photographers Like William Eggleston, Walker Evans, Francesca Woodman, Alec Soth, Homer Sykes, Anders Peterson, Robert Frank and Cindy Sherman. Comic artists Like Harvey Pekar, Robert Crumb, Adrian Tomine, Daniel Clowes, Killoffer and Charles Burns.

I'd like to meet:

These are all fictional characters,if you didn't know, I'm not trying to fool anyone: The Continental Op, Sam Spade, Caspar Gutman, Miss Wonderley (she'd have to stand for a frisk first though), Carmen Sternwood (ditto), Vivian Sternwood (not strictly neccessary but i wouldn't say no), Candy Christian (ditto), Boris Adrian, Tony Sanders, Guy Grand, Yossarian, Milo Minderbinder, Ignantius J. Reilly.

Music:

Alex Chilton, Flaming Stars, Dave Graney, Sandy Dillon, Barry Adamson, Salter Cane, La Frange, Rolling Stones (64-77), The Pretty Things, Stooges, Funkadelic, Serge Gainsbourg, The Seeds, Beasts Of Bourbon, Johnny Dowd, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Flying Burrito Bros, Townes Van Zandt.

Movies:

Mystery Train, Lost Highway, Short Cuts, Killing Of A Chinese Bookie, Badlands, The Fearless Vampire Killers, The Big Lebowski, Touch of Evil, Chinatown, American Splendour, Kings Of The Road, Leningrad Cowboys Go America, The Ages of Lulu,Belle du Jour, Mikey and Nicky, Factotum, Black Cat White Cat, All the Baby Cart Films.

Books:

Dashiell Hammett, John O'Hara, Ernest Hemingway, David Goodis, Albert Camus, Guy de Maupassant, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, James Jones, Charles Bukowski, Jean Rhys, Toby Litt, John Fante, Dorothy Parker, John Kennedy Toole, Cathi Unsworth, Richard Brautigan, David L. Hayles, Raymond Carver, Martyn Waites, Jack Kerouac, Matt Thorne, Stewart Home, Lydia Lunch, Barry Gifford, Maxim Jakubowski, Raymond Chandler, Angela Carter, Max Decharne, Kirk Lake, Nikolai Gogol, Terry Southern.

My Blog

Hammett Story Agency Barbican event in October

The Hammett Story Agency present a special event at Barbican Cinema, London in October: Mambo Italiano: Exotica explored at Barbican Cinema. Wednesday 8 October at 8.45pm Italian writer and musicologi...
Posted by Hammett Story Agency on Sat, 06 Sep 2008 03:28:00 PST

Tight Lip with special guest David L Hayles Fri 19 Sept

Tight Lip with special guest David L. Hayles Friday 19 SeptemberCategory: Writing and Poetry The next Tight Lip stories and poetry event will be on Friday 19 September at t...
Posted by Hammett Story Agency on Mon, 25 Aug 2008 03:19:00 PST

Tight Lip with special guest Joolz Denby Friday 15 Aug

Tight Lip with special guest Joolz Denby Friday 15 August The next Tight Lip stories and poetry event will be on Friday 15 August at the Permanent Gallery, 20 Bedford Place, Brighton (www.perman...
Posted by Hammett Story Agency on Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:39:00 PST

Tight Lip at the Hotel Pelirocco Sunday 20July 5pm

The next Tight Lip event will be on Sunday 20 July at 5pm at the Hotel Pelirocco bar, Brighton (10 Regency Square, BN1 2FG). Special guest author is Cathi Unsworth (author of The Not Knowing and ...
Posted by Hammett Story Agency on Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:53:00 PST

Next Tight Lip Friday 20 June at the Permanent Gallery Brighton

TIGHT LIP: Out of the Picture Private View night for "Other People's Stories", photography by Sam Collins, with live readings of fiction and poetry from Theodore Koulouris, St...
Posted by Hammett Story Agency on Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:29:00 PST

Tight Lip returns with guest Toby Litt 23 May

23 May 2008Tight Lip with special guest Toby LittToby Litt is the author of seven novels and two short story collections, including Adventures in Capitalism, Beatniks, Corpsing, Deadkidsongs, and Exhi...
Posted by Hammett Story Agency on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:49:00 PST

Sandy Dillon and Ed Wood. Tuesday 19 Feb at 8.30pm Barbican Cinema 2.

Beefheart-influenced American blues vocalist Sandy Dillon (ELECTRIC CHAIR, NOBODY'S SWEETHEART, PULL THE STRINGS) will be reading a specially-written short story, with her own soundtrack, ba...
Posted by Hammett Story Agency on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:27:00 PST

Cathi Unsworth and Beat Girl: Wed 23 January 8.30pm at Barbican Cinema 2

Cathi Unsworth, author of THE NOT KNOWING and THE SINGER, will be reading her specially-comissioned short story 'Johnny, remember me', based on a peripheral character from the 1960 Brit rock'n'ro...
Posted by Hammett Story Agency on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:16:00 PST

Tight Lip: Friday Nov 16th.

The Hammett Story Agency are back in buisness On...   Friday the 16th of Nov. at the Permanent Gallery on Bedford Place.   Readings from Ben Murray Wolfy Jones Ed Brown And music from The ...
Posted by Hammett Story Agency on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 03:06:00 PST

Next Event...

Next Event... Sunday 24th June 1pm at the Duke Of Yorks, Brighton.   Hammett Story Agency in association with Duke of York's Picture House present... The Glass Key (1942). Starring Veronica Lake,...
Posted by Hammett Story Agency on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 05:51:00 PST