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The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda by Ishmael Reed
during a brief solo trip to Montreal, scott reads a blistering take-down of the musical Hamilton and makes a personal announcement
Sula by Toni Morrison
a beautiful novel about the emptiness at the heart of life
Passing by Nella Larsen (Norton Critical Edition)
a stunning harlem renaissance novel; scott muses on the hangover of growing up in a cultural desert
Guyana by Élise Turcotte
a powerful quebecois novel about grief
Wind Pinball (that’s what it says on the spine) by Haruki Murakami
not a great book, not a great time (post from the winter)
Toilets at the Venice Biennale
water, water, everywhere and not a spot to piss
How to Blow Up A Pipeline by Andreas Malm
it’s self-evidently time for eco-terrorism. This book asks, “is it time for eco-terrorism?”
The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji
mediocre mystery that solves its mystery in chapter one
Red X by David Demchuk
reality is evil enough… i do not *get* supernatural horror
Dear Senthuran by Akwaeke Emezi
a very american-feeling memoir about being rich and successful and a literal god?
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist by Adrian Tomine
a bland book for my bland life
Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
in early Jan I was quoted in the New Yorker and read a perfect novel
Bluebeard’s Chamber by Michael Maar
i crit lit + this lit’s lit crit; MANNSLAUGHTER???
The Invention of Sicily: A Mediterranean History by Jamie Mackay
in the middle of another canadian winter, i depressingly read about a warm, interesting, place
Tired by Joe Bielecki
dreamlike, dystopian, prose-poetry adjacent fiction
A Country of Ghosts by Margaret Killjoy
anarchist propaganda makes perfect sense!
The Letters of Mina Harker by Dodie Bellamy
an excellent – near flawless – novel
SONG: ‘Handsome Mr Dog (Your Name Is)’
Recorded mid-January, SOLID BALD presents a hot synth pop rock tune yet again about their favourite dog!
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
struck down by covid, scott crawls into a classic novel
The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin
a hyper-cautious novel about archetypes avoids offence but also characterisation
Trauma??? of intent??? or something like that by Anthony Burgess 
not a witty pastiche so much as a dull echo
A Dog’s Ransom by Patricia Highsmith
six weeks late, it’s the TotN CHRISTMAS SPECIAL 2021!
James Baldwin: Collected Essays (Library of America, 1998)
james baldwin is great; vaccines are also great
voice to text fragment: The power by Naomi alderman
voice to text fragment from summer/autumn 2021
Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
scott visits canada’s “museum of immigration” and gets reflective. Dune Messiah is barely mentioned.
Triumph Of The Now 