Book Review

Jarvis Cocker sifts through his bric-a-brac in Good Pop Bad Pop, An Inventory

The former Pulp frontman has written a splendidly inventive memoir based on an array of items he has hoarded in the course of his life

Jarvis Cocker: one of the most unlikely pop stars of the 1990s. Picture: Daniel Cohen

“I don’t know whether I wrote ‘LIFE IS ELSEWHERE’ on the back of this envelope to remind myself to check out the Milan Kundera book of the same name or simply because the phrase appealed to me… The fact that the entire back of the envelope has been dedicated to just these three words is significant: I must have thought this was an important phrase to remember. KEEP.”

Keeping items or throwing them away is ...