England's most acerbic, controversial and frequently hilarious journalist and author.
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Introducing Julie Burchill
Julie Burchill (born 3 July 1959 in Frenchay, Bristol) is an English writer, renowned for her invective and often contentious prose for a number of publications over the last thirty years. Beginning as a writer for the New Musical Express at the age of 17, she has written for newspapers such as The Sunday Times and The Guardian. Despite her prominence, Burchill's detractors see her as a vacuous self-publicist. For Michael Bywater Burchill's "insights were, and remain, negligible, on the level of a toddler having a tantrum".cited in "Julie Burchill Speaks Out Shock!", BBC News, 23 February 23,...
Julie Burchill Reads
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From the Everyday Hypocrites (cyclists, white hip-hop fans, reality television-haters) to the truly pungent Stinking Hypocrites (chav-haters, green campaigners and anti-Americans), Julie Burchill and Chas Newkey-Burden pull no punches in their witty harangue of those who shamelessly say one thing and do another. Featuring modern hypocrites' favourite holiday destinations, musical and sporting heroes, and the hilarious Hypocrites' Ultimate Weekend.
Not in My Name
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Julie Burchill In Her Own Words
'A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men.'
'Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic.'
'What Mrs. Thatcher did for women was to demonstrate that if a woman had enough desire she could do what she wanted, do anything a man could do. . . . Mrs. Thatcher did not have one traditional feminine cell in her body.'
'It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast.'
'The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact.'
'What sort of chronic saddo really believes that the best days of his life were spent in the mud at Woodstock or fighting on Brighton beach?'
Bibliography
Love It or Shove It, (1985)
Girls on Film, (1986)
Damaged Gods: Cults and Heroes Reappraised, (1987)
Ambition, (1989)
Sex and Sensibility, (1992)
No Exit, (1993)
Married Alive, (1998)
I Knew I Was Right, (1998)
Diana, (1999)
The Guardian Columns 1998-2000, (2000)
On Beckham, (2002)
Sugar Rush, (2004)
Made in Brighton, co-written Daniel Raven (2007)
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Links
- The Faxes
- Each battle of the Burchill v Paglia fax war.
- Julie Burchill.org
- Links to all thing Julie (unofficial website)
- The Julie Burchill Random Recycler
- Generate some Julie.
- Punk 77
- Short profile of Julie Burchill
Google Blogs
- Little Atoms with Julie Burchill and Chas Newkey-Burden
- Julie Burchill has been writing her often controversial journalism for almost 30 years, for publicat...
- George Monbiot won the day in tussle with Julie Burchill
- I have my issues with Monbiot, and Burchill is a terrific controversialist, but the environmental ac...
- By God, this is exactly what I think
- Julie Burchill can't stand them. According to her new book, Not in my Name: A Compendium of Modern H...
- George Monbiot: I’d rather be a hypocrite than a cynic like Julie ...
- George Monbiot: I'd rather be a hypocrite than a cynic like Julie Burchill George Monbiot: Give me...
Google News
- Class will matter more, not less
- If you missed it, listen here to Julie Burchill having a go at the Guardian's pompous George Mon...
- Our Friend Carbon Is 'Going Out Of Style'
- Julie Burchill can't stand them. According to her new book, Not in my Name: A Compendium of Mode...
- Unattractive self-absorption is now a media hallmark
- The occasion was the publication of Burchill's newly co-authored book, Not in my Name: a Compend...
- Emirates ditch in flight magazine
- ... meaning you'll have to find another maagzine edited by Michael Palin, and another magazine tha...
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