FAITH, HOPE AND CARNAGE, by Nick Cave and Seán O’Hagan (Text Publishing, $50 hb)
Seán O’Hagan, a veteran writer for the Observer and the Guardian, has known singer-songwriter Nick Cave for decades. They first met in a London pub in 1987, when O’Hagan hosted an NME interview that instantly entered the annals of rock infamy.
The interview, designed to provoke, was proposed as a “conversation” between Mark E Smith (the Fall), Shane MacGowan (the Pogues) and Cave, the charismatic frontman
