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credits: editor/designer: karl sinfield additional creative direction: charlie mitchell additional photography: angela smith wonderful people: Hanif Kureishi; David Miller; Chris Harper at Sonnet; Anton at Concrete Planet for the sofa (and yes, it was red); Dan the Man and all the fine folks at the Embassy; Andrea (for taking us to the best parties); Hugh Thomson; Richard Tandy at Push & Plug; Panos; Mike at Music Media for saving our lives; Ian ‘Power Tools’ Capes; The Gorgeous (and now pierced) Natalie; Zacos Minimarket (for keeping us alive); Angela (for consistently drinking the editor under the table and then breaking things and for believing in em from the start); everyone that offered words of wisdom and encouragement in the face of the editor’s bar-room pessimism; and all the contributors - thanks for spending your stamp-money on em. Hope you like it. note: THE TALE OF THE TURD is copyright © 1996 Hanif Kureishi. Reproduced by permission of the author c/o Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd., 20 Powis Mews, London W11 1JN. THE TALE OF THE TURD will be published in LOVE IN A BLUE TIME (Faber and Faber) in April 1997.

em one "great stories, and an abosolutely ace tape" nicholas royle, time out [show extracts only] [go to em one music page] [read reviews of em one] [how to buy] Here's the full contents of the book part of em one. Click on a highlighted title to read an extract. If you enjoy these extracts, please buy a copy, and maybe it'll prompt us to bring out an em four. At the very least, email the editor with your thoughts, praise, and derision. em one music track listing STARS Rosie Cooper FLEUR-de-LIS Dick McBride NIGHT MUSIC Atar Hadari THE SOFT WATCH Dick McBride SPITTING ON SHAKESPEARE jamie jackson WHAT’S SO GOOD ABOUT FRIDAY? Dick McBride ROCK ‘N’ ROLL HEAVEN Martin Rowsell PRETTY LITTLE STARLET A. L. Pope OCTOBER REVOLUTION Simon Bingham EVE’S NEW TROUSERS E. Kolkiewicz MYSTERIUM Dick McBride ENOUGH Jason Wood EASY Daisy Lees THE NIGHT THE BED CAUGHT FIRE Michael Blackburn THE JOLLY BREWER Michael Blackburn SLUMMIN’ IN SWINETOWN WITH SCOOTSKIN Ted Curtis WAITING FOR CHANGE Gareth Ledbetter STEP RIGHT UP, FOLKS! Dick McBride THE RED VINYL COUCH hilaire INFESTATION Steve Aylett COACH Stephen Woolley RUDYARD KIPLING’S BITTER LEMON Royston Swarbrooke STAND UP COMEDIAN Dick McBride PICASSO COULDN’T SAY IT ALL IN GUERNICA DIck McBride TASTE BUDS Stephen Cooley THE TRUTH ABOUT LOVE Stephen Curran THE GREATEST STORY NEVER TOLD Dick McBride ENOUGH TO TRY THE PATIENCE OF A SAINT Dick McBride TOP AY THE WORLD, DA Gordon Brown NOSEPICK Dennis Capper BULLY'S STAR PRIZE jamie jackson DEATH IN THE BUBBLE WORLD G P Davis THE TALE OF THE TURD Hanif Kureishi THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT Dick McBride SATIE-FACTION Dick McBride LADY DAY DIES Dick Mcbride EDVARD MUNCH SURVEYS STAINES BRIDGE David Rose NIGHT MUSIC (continued) Atar Hadari subscribe to em contributors’ notes contribute to em endnote design & content © em writing & music all works © the respected artist(s) email the editor