micropost – Planet of Exile by Ursula K Le Guin
an excellent novella from le guin
an excellent novella from le guin
a “lost masterpiece” that deserved to be forgotten
a failure of intent
pacy thriller; terrible bookstore; hot summer heat
an excellent early 80s hybrid text with a distressing – and violent – context
short post on a recent [ graphic novel / comic book ] (delete to your preference)
found text from 2013 about serial killer rumours
a somewhat prescient note i found from 2010 (picture from then, obvs)
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Rasputin in the Disco Rasputin feels the madeira flow through his veins and the sweetness and…
slow fiction with relentless structure
“the classic coming of age novel… for women”
great essay on the end of the world in film & lit
reading more earthsea, hating everything else
scott reads a collection of writing from a trailblazing lady gonzo journalist!
Reading Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities while in Venice is like
digression-free review of a moving, hopeful, realist novel
great memoir about youth and scouting
posh ominous australian fiction
astounded by the brilliance of this mid-20th century arthurian novel
an interesting introduction to progressive gender studies that every teenage lad should read!
read a great book about a very bad person and a very bad place
a literary zombie novel. does it work? oh yes it works!
exceptionally good short story collection
another hagiography on Baldwin as scott packs up his north american life
tiny review of a space opera that’s perfect for a holiday read
vampires don’t count as supernatural horror because they’re too sexy aha
two new books from Jarett Kobek about CRIME CRIME CRIME
a big book about mushrooms that are magic (not magic mushrooms)
some things are worth dying for – what is worth killing for?
a very millennial internet-set graphic novel – i enjoyed a lot
a manga from the 1950s
fiction about child soldiers that felt a little underdone
repression at the end of the world
quick read, a fun sci-fi psychological thriller!
during a brief solo trip to Montreal, scott reads a blistering take-down of the musical Hamilton and makes a personal announcement
a beautiful novel about the emptiness at the heart of life
a stunning harlem renaissance novel; scott muses on the hangover of growing up in a cultural desert
a powerful quebecois novel about grief
not a great book, not a great time (post from the winter)
water, water, everywhere and not a spot to piss
it’s self-evidently time for eco-terrorism. This book asks, “is it time for eco-terrorism?”
mediocre mystery that solves its mystery in chapter one
reality is evil enough… i do not *get* supernatural horror
a very american-feeling memoir about being rich and successful and a literal god?
a bland book for my bland life
in early Jan I was quoted in the New Yorker and read a perfect novel
i crit lit + this lit’s lit crit; MANNSLAUGHTER???
in the middle of another canadian winter, i depressingly read about a warm, interesting, place
dreamlike, dystopian, prose-poetry adjacent fiction
anarchist propaganda makes perfect sense!