Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom by Sylvia Plath
terrible plath juvenilia published nicely for profit
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Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams by Sylvia Plath
I intended to read Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams for a while, but held off doing so forContinue Reading
Ariel by Sylvia Plath
I will be the first to admit that I’m not an expert on poetry. That I don’t read enough poetry.Continue Reading
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
I thoroughly enjoyed The Bell Jar. And I realise “enjoyed” might not sound like the appropriate word… I loved Plath’sContinue Reading
MY WORST READS OF 2019
the worst books I read in 2019: is your favourite here? probably u loser
The Silent Woman by Janet Malcolm
stunning essay on the ethics and impossibilities of biography
The Voyage that Never Ends: Malcolm Lowry In His Own Words edited by Michael Hofmann
Is The Best of Malcolm Lowry your favourite Malcolm Lowry book?
Rebuttal from Lewis Parker
A disgruntled former reviewee comes back to work packing heat.
Street Epistles by Faruk Šehić
Great poems from an EU Prize winner; the peripatetic blogger continues to splinter
Pursued by Furies: A Life of Malcolm Lowry by George Bowker
I took a week to read this harrowing, depressing, heart-wrenchingly awful* biography of one of the most troubled, confused andContinue Reading
Reality Hunger by David Shields
David Shields’ Reality Hunger is a non-fiction book about the fictional and the unreal being dead to contemporary creativity. ItContinue Reading
Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
Wow. I just finished reading this long collection of themed poems, and found it pretty impressive. Birthday Letters, Ted Hughes’Continue Reading
Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
an excellent early 80s hybrid text with a distressing – and violent – context
Martha Quest by Doris Lessing (Children of Violence #1)
“the classic coming of age novel… for women”
Vibrator by Mari Akasaka
a great Japanese novel
Full Index
ISN’T THIS EXCITING!? The following is an index for TriumphoftheNow.com. To see the work of Scott Manley Hadley published elsewhere, visitContinue Reading
A Girl Is A Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride
Eimear McBride’s A Girl Is A Half-formed Thing was a surprise critical smash in the heady days of 2013/14, atContinue Reading
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