Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith
a great trad thriller in the sir ian fleming tradition
Author: scottmanleyhadley
I like to read but little else. I have bad mental health and a dog. And a baby. And no hair. And a blog.
because earth is flat: a flat earth poetry collection – scott manley hadley: live at paradise (new web series episode)
the earth is flat; if it wasn’t, why would there be a whole book of poetry presuming it was???
my father, from a distance – scott manley hadley: live at paradise (new web series episode)
Filmed at the tail end of the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto’s historic Paradise Theatre on Bloor St W, the poet,Continue Reading
Moon of The Turning Leaves by Waubgeshig Rice
A sequel I wasn’t expecting (and that maybe wasn’t needed?), this big Canadian hit of last year is a powerhouseContinue Reading
BTS: COMEDIAN – scott manley hadley: live at paradise (new web series episode)
have you heard that people are reheating bread???
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
if the English state could clone the poor to harvest their organs, it would
video: it’s orange time – solid bald feat bb whamathan
a lovely song about oranges thank you
City Of A Thousand Suns by Samuel R. Delany (The Fall of The Towers #3)
This is the concluding part of the trilogy the fall of the towers, the earlier two volumes of which I’veContinue Reading
The Beauty Queen of Leenane & Other Plays by Martin McDonagh
three great plays from the younger brother of the guy who wrote and directed The Guard
The Towers of Toron by Samuel R. Delany (The Fall Of The Towers #2)
careening towards dystopias; long blog on a book, a baby and a uk election
Before The Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
pointless, underwritten, characterless character study that confuses naming emotive experiences with describing them; flat
god made my face edited by Hilton Als
a book of essays about James Baldwin; a treat for anyone with a soul
Out of the Dead City by Samuel R. Delany (The Fall of The Towers #1)
my second summer samuel treat
video: scott manley hadley tries stand up comedy
watch me name sex acts for almost two minutes!!!
Ina May’s Guide To Childbirth by Ina May Gaskin
reading an important guide to childbirth, something my pointless body will never do
The Jewels of Aptor by Samuel R. Delany
not the best next stop on my Samuel Delany journey, but this juvenilia is still a joy!
Don’t Panic by George Lewis
valuable and open-hearted – if gently laddish – book on parenting for non-birthing people
I Will Write To Avenge My People by Annie Ernaux (The Nobel Lecture)
a tiny book containing Ernaux’s Nobel address and some bumpf
Chapterhouse: Dune by Frank Herbert (Dune #6)
dune to myself as i would dune to others
The Birth Partner by Penny Simkin
a chilling book on the terrifying consequences of unrepresssed sexuality
This Wounded Island by J.W. Böhm
iiiiit’s good stuff but it’s a pretend book
video announcement: new web series incoming!
omg omg – a new web series is coming soon from scott manley hadley!!!
A free promotional Planet of the Apes comic I got from BMV on Bloor Street West a few weeks ago
reflecting on a free comic book and planet of the apes
Dead In The Family by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood #10
Charlaine Harris STUNS AGAIN with a metatextual coup de grace
Truth & Dare by So Mayer
stories of nb life & literature bring me down down down down down & i don’t think they’re meant to…
Writing Beer, Drinking Poetry by Gwil James Thomas
a poetry chapbook on drinking, not drinking and travel
Audition by Pip Adam
i think i liked this a lot, but possibly i maybe just agreed with it a lot?
The Beginning Place by Ursula K. Le Guin
a great brief obscure le guin
Death Egg by Nathaniel Duggan
the publisher behind Liver Mush returns with more poetry almost as good as Liver Mush
Babel by R. F. Kuang
a cracking idea, a knife-edge epilogue but too much brilliance and not enough sex
Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse #9)
no one deserves misery, which is why we should all be reading Stackhouse
‘a disgusting lie’ by Fran Lock
excellent serious poetry that escapes the drudge of the academy
George’s Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl
not marvellous and definitely not medicine… or literature
A Rap On Race by James Baldwin & Margaret Mead
an out of print James Baldwin from the mid-70s is a great little treat
video: live noise in the marshes – around and around
feedback loops in the marsh
Fabulae: How It Begins by Isabella Streffen
interesting contemporary poetry about detailed rereadings of books I haven’t read
Prisons We Choose To Live Inside by Doris Lessing
writing on the dangers of group mentalities, though pretty committed to one particular viewing of the world…
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
a solid memoir about the importance of food… and cancer
video: live noise al fresco a capella – dog city (it’s a city for dogs)
dog city, it’s a city for dogs and noise
Cold Earth by Sarah Moss
cold, sinister, spooky… enveloping like an envelope
Matrix by Lauren Groff
a solid historical novel – won’t change your life, but a serviceable way to kill a few commutes!
Rescue Me: On Dogs and Their Humans by Margret Grebowicz
we have lived with dogs for longer than we’ve lived with agriculture; we are arguably not people without them…
Talking At The Gates: A Life of James Baldwin by James Campbell
a solid and non hagiographic literary biography
From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris (True Blood/Sookie Stackhouse Book #8)
i return to the perfect oeuvre of america’s greatest living novelist
The Bees by Laline Paull
got a lotta buzz a decade ago… does it still have the honey???
Waiting for Ted by Marieke Bigg
a novel about someone on a chaise longue
The Bureau of Past Management by Iris Hanika
on blogging, on genocide, on the dangers of forgiveness
The Archbishop’s Ceiling by Arthur Miller
right up the Archbishop’s ceiling
Triumph Of The Now 