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POETRY MONTH: Bars Fight by Lucy Terry Prince
potentially significant if unexciting 18th century ballad
POETRY MONTH: HEROIN HAIKUS by William Wantling
a gorgeous chapbook kicks off POETRY MONTH
POETRY MONTH: poetry reviews from the vaults
before a month of all new all poetry reviews, check out a selection from the TotN vaults!
POETRY MONTH: poetry film premiere
exclusive look at a new poetry film by scott manley hadley!
excerpts from The Imagination on Trial: BS Johnson interviewed by Alan Burns
excerpts from a BS Johnson interview
Journey to the Alcarria by Camilo José Cela
uninspiring 1940s travel writing
Fireship/Mother and Child by Joan D. Vinge
a novella as boring as my life rn then a novella that’s good
Licence Renewed by John Gardner
reading more of John Gardner’s James Bond so you don’t have to
Penguin Classics Marvel Collection: Black Panther by various
are superheroes for superzeroes?
The Other Wind by Ursula Le Guin
i continue having a terrible time
Eastbound by Maylis de Kerangal
a pre-release post on a novella about Russian conscripts
The Membranes by Chi Ta-Wei
excellent 1990s spec fic from Taiwan
Pissing Figures 1280–2014 by Jean-Claude Lebensztejn
mostly fun book on peeing in art with a very off-colour digression
Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire by Max Haiven
palm oil as microcosm of the mess that is capitalism
Recursion by Blake Crouch
very fun, very trashy, contemporary time travel novel
Babel by Alan Burns
a middle class british heterosexual Howl
Celebrations by Alan Burns
Alan Burns’ underwhelming follow-up to Europe After The Rain
Buster by Alan Burns
a bildungsroman from alan burns (this is alan burns week)
Europe After The Rain by Alan Burns
1965 experimental novel about the after-effects of mass war
A Ripple From The Storm AND Landlocked by Doris Lessing (Children of violence #3 AND #4)
double-teaming more excellent doris lessing
The Experimentalists by Joe Darlington
the limits + importance of language (cw: suicide ideation)
Middle Passage by Charles Johnson
middling swashbuckling adventure
On Anarchism by Noam Chomsky
more anarchism on the blog thank you for reading
Why I Hate Saturn by Kyle Baker
why i didn’t like why i hate saturn
Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie
August 1st, 2022, Tottenham Ok so I’ve let myself get behind on this by several weeks again & I’ve alsoContinue Reading
I Is Another by Jon Fosse (Septology III – V)
an excellent novel (& a guest cat in the pic!!!)
a proper marriage by Doris Lessing (Children of Violence #2)
lessing’s children of violence continues to be excellent unlike my mood
micropost – Plastic Emotions by Shiromi Pinto
brief comments on a perfect novel
micropost – Planet of Exile by Ursula K Le Guin
an excellent novella from le guin
Andrea Víctrix by Llorenç Villalonga
a “lost masterpiece” that deserved to be forgotten
My Volcano by John Elizabeth Stintzi
a failure of intent
The Boys from Brazil by Ira Levin
pacy thriller; terrible bookstore; hot summer heat
Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
an excellent early 80s hybrid text with a distressing – and violent – context
The Con Artists by Luke Healy
short post on a recent [ graphic novel / comic book ] (delete to your preference)
found text – ‘sutcliffe rumours’ – Oct 1, 2013
found text from 2013 about serial killer rumours
found text: note from 17-04-2010
a somewhat prescient note i found from 2010 (picture from then, obvs)
some old fiction of mine, recently published
Originally posted on Horror Sleaze Trash:
Rasputin in the Disco Rasputin feels the madeira flow through his veins and the sweetness and…
The Other Name by Jon Fosse (Septology I-II)
slow fiction with relentless structure
Martha Quest by Doris Lessing (Children of Violence #1)
“the classic coming of age novel… for women”
The End: Surviving the World Through Imagined Disasters by Katie Goh
great essay on the end of the world in film & lit
Tales from Earthsea by Ursula le Guin
reading more earthsea, hating everything else
Around the World in Seventy-Two Days and Other Writings by Nellie Bly
scott reads a collection of writing from a trailblazing lady gonzo journalist!
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Reading Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities while in Venice is like
Cat Step by Alison Irvine
digression-free review of a moving, hopeful, realist novel
Thriftwood: A Personal History of Scouting by Alice Wickenden
great memoir about youth and scouting
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
posh ominous australian fiction
The Once and Future King by T. H. White
astounded by the brilliance of this mid-20th century arthurian novel
Mask Off: Masculinity Redefined by JJ Bola
an interesting introduction to progressive gender studies that every teenage lad should read!
Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes by Tariq Ali
read a great book about a very bad person and a very bad place
Triumph Of The Now 