Great read alert, folks: The summer “Festival Issue” of Five Dials — featuring a new poem by Ryan Adams, a short story by Bloc Party’s Kele Okereke, thoughts on touring by Arcade Fire’s Sarah Neufeld, Raymond Pettibon’s artwork, an essay by LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy, and much more — is now available as a free download via the literary magazine’s publisher, Hamish Hamilton.
Though I admittedly jumped ahead to Adams’ “The Wind-up,” which touches on his oft-discussed subjects of stage fright and being born with a relentless muse, Murphy’s reflections on writing “Losing My Edge” for LCD Soundsystem’s 2002 debut also grabbed my attention as they are wonderfully eloquent, revealing, and at times humorous. One funny pull-quote: “If you put a million twenty-two-year-olds behind typewriters, they’d come up with [“Losing My Edge”] eventually, or perhaps they’d just come up with Twilight.”
Grab the free (15.2 MB) PDF copy here.