The Employees – a workplace novel of the 22nd century by Olga Ravn
a terrifying future draws grim parallels to the present
Author: scottmanleyhadley
Book blogger. Depressive. Dog owner. Occasional rapper. GSOH. Poet.
Can the monster speak? by Paul B. Preciado
arguments to make the world better in language that can only make it worse
Kermit Lynch: Adventures On The Wine Route
an engaging (tho sexist) 1980s history of wine in France
Triumph of the Now is 10! lol whoops
ten years ago i started a blog instead of killing myself
Kenneth Anger’s Hollywood Babylon
a (perhaps accidental) anti-gossip tract
Do Every Thing Wrong!: XXXTentacion Against The World by 😇 Jarett Kobek 😇
an extensive discussion re the weighty themes raised by this book
small white monkeys by Sophie Collins
serious, excellent, short book on trauma
Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux
speculative short essay that proposes the historic existence of shame-free desire
One Thing by Xanthi Barker
deeply affecting, affectingly deep
Embassytown by China Mieville
i suppose this book is excellent?
live noise performance #3
an occasional series of improvised noise performances
the discworld graphic novels adapted from Terry Pratchett by Scott Rockwell & illustrated by Steven Ross
terrified i may look like i dont know how to drive
Borne by Jeff VanderMeer
med free and hating life lol 😜
Never Seen The Sea by Holly Watson
i experience the plot of keep the aspidistra flying while reading and in retrospect for my childhood
live noise performance #2
an occasional series
I, Nerd by Max Sydney Smith
another nice book review descends into dissociated left-wing raving
You Ruin It When You Talk by Sarah Manvel
very funny novelette from hipstertopia’s Open Pen
The Last Quarter of the Moon by Chi Zijian
“our society is ending” borrriiiiing
Only Americans Burn In Hell by 🙏 Jarett Kobek 🙏
if you’re not reading Kobek you’re not reading
The Trespasser by DH Lawrence
unambitious, uncomplex, wish it had been sexier
George Michael’s Faith: 33 1/3 by Matthew Horton
an excellent small book about St. George Michael
live noise performance #1
for 2023, a new occasional series
Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie
Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Trilogy ends with a whimper (I wanted a bang)
Soft & Cuddly by 🙏 Jarett Kobek 🙏
a minor kobek is a major good read
We Do This ‘Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba
hope is a discipline, and I am undisciplined
The Autobiography of Malcolm X with Alex Haley
some thoughts on reading one of the 20th century’s most important books
Variations on the Body by María Ospina
a supposedly transgressive thing i’ll probably do again
ATTA by 🙏Jarett Kobek🙏
anti 9/11, anti Richmond, pro Jarett Kobek
Solitudes by Luis de Góngora
leave this book where it belongs – 400 years ago!
2022 REVIEW: FOR ME, IT WAS MIXED
that wasn’t very good for me
the lady and the little fox fur by Violette Leduc
definitely not a recent reading highlight…
Strangers Within: Documentary as Encounter, edited by Therese Henningsen & Juliette Joffé
mostly great anthology about filmmaking and strangers that gets too academic (for me) by its end
the heart of the matter by Graham Greene
1948 novel about a sad catholic with too many girlfriends
The Future Won’t Be Long by 🙏Jarett Kobek 🙏
one of the best normal books you’ve never read
Sex Dolls at Sea: Imagined Histories of Sexual Technologies by Bo Ruberg
sailors sharing sex dolls; a compromised text on compromised sex
Mothers Don’t by Katixa Agirre
If you do not feel or even believe in love, then how and why would you bring others into the nightmare that is existence?
THRU by Christine Brooke-Rose
Christmas Brooke-Rose Quadrilogy day 4/4
Between by Christine Brooke-Rose
Christmas Brooke-Rose quadrilogy day 3/4
SUCH by Christine Brooke-Rose
Christmas Brooke-Rose quadrilogy day 2/4
OUT by Christine Brooke-Rose
christmas brooke-rose quadrilogy day 1/4
MICROPOST Thrust: A Spasmodic Pictorial History of the Codpiece in Art by Michael Glover
the book’s basically a listicle – remember those???
the disappearance of Joseph Mengele by Olivier Guez
reading another novel about nazis, but this is not a romp
Lady Joker by Kaoru Takamura
half of a crime novel
The Evidence of Things Not Seen by James Baldwin
it’s not Baldwin’s best, but it’s better than most books by everyone else!
Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
maybe walking blind into the desert is the bravest thing to do
The Yellow House by Sarah M Broom
boooorrrrriiiiinnnggg
Under Country by Jonathan Trigell
contemporary fiction on the last quarter of the 20th century
My Dead Book by Nate Lippens
breathtaking book on death
The Passengers by Will Ashon
an excellent book
The Angry Brigade by James Graham
eww i read some centrist art by mistake
Triumph Of The Now 