The Newest from Inculte
The latest book cover designs for Inculte Publishing in Paris include covers for “Big Fan,” “The Fall: Saddam Hussein’s interrogation by the FBI,” and “The Sonic.” Inculte has a habit of making things interesting for these assignments, giving us books with content ranging from monumental documentary, to sci-fi conspiracy theory, to a title they describe as “a UFO on the 2009 literary scene.”
The most recent of the Inculte titles is “Big Fan,” written by Fabrice Colin. It is the story of Bill Madlock, a thrity year-old who lives in Oxford with his mother and pet iguana. Outwardly, his life is not easy. Girls flee from him, he avoids potential friends, and all the neighborhood dogs seem to have attracted his personal hatred. But Big Bill, amateur indie rocker, has a vital secret: he is the only one to understand the true meaning of the lyrics of Radiohead.
In July of 2008, Bill finds himself behind the high walls of the prison, Grendon, and he begins writing a novel describing the reasons that led him to shoot a security guard a month before a Radiohead concert in Victoria Park. His novel, incidentally, will also reveal to mankind the exact date of the end of the world.
“Big Fan” is a novel composed of three intertwining parts: Big Bill’s childhood in Oxford, a girlfriend’s ephemeral history with Radiohead, and the explanation of the “quantum conspiracy” against which the members of Radiohead (and now, Bill) have vainly tried to warn us.
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