excerpts from The Imagination on Trial: BS Johnson interviewed by Alan Burns
excerpts from a BS Johnson interview
Month: September 2022
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
Triumph Of The Now 