The Wind Blows Away Our Words by Doris Lessing
getting political with Doris in the eighties
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.
Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
an interesting Sudanese novel from the sixties
Malcolm Lowry: A Preface To His Fiction by Richard K. Cross
a fun read for a Lowry fan but probably little interest for others
Dead To The World by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse #4)
the sookie stackhouse fun continues
Kanye West Superstar by Byron Crawford
eeeeee it’s a little bit sexist
Joan Didion: The Last Interview
oh yes i didion’t
Spontaneous Particulars: The Telepathy of Archives by Susan Howe
interesting intellectualised essay on the beauty of physical literary archives
video: a weekend trip to North West Wales
a weekend trip to wales in the rain
A Handbook of Disappointed Fate by Anne Boyer
a great (as in “very good” not “large”) collection of prose from an acclaimed american poet
Call For The Dead by John Le Carré
are you a #bondboy or #smileyman?
Under The Banner of King Death by David Lester & Marcus Rediker
oh, a pirate’s life for me (without the fish-based diet and violence)
The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin
there is enough in the world for everyone to have enough; we’ve got to fucking fix things, we have to fucking fix things
video: noise.piece.solo.voice.versace
one more video of me playing by (not with) myself on my recent birthday
Pleasure Beach by Helen Palmer
if u love literature like i do you’ll love this
The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami
stream of consciousness response to reading an illustrated short story
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology by David Graeber
contemporary capitalist society is a dead end death cult – and baybe we all believe
video: noise.piece.plasticwind.versace
live noise play from my recent birthday using 3d-printed instruments
World Running Down by Al Hess
reading too much SF cuz im on a psychological downswing that wont end unless/until i change the material conditions of my life which i am trying to do
video: do expresso beneath at tree
watch me make a expresso in a lay-by – with lovely crema!
The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas
how would people act if they already knew how they were gonna act???
City of Illusions by Ursula K. Le Guin
phenomenal novel from a storytelling expert – essentially flawless??? (i loved it and im so depressed i take pleasure from nothing)
video: jane in safari
a conversation/ video piece about a recent safari
Another Birthday Rolls Around in the Dirt
i am older than christ and i understand why he consented to be crucified
Play The Devil by Scott Laudati
i read a fun picaresque novel but remembered how much i hate my name
Club Dead by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse #3)
book 3 of the true blood novels continues to thrill and spill [blood]
video: table.mountain.panorama.with.korg.volca.keys
some brightly coloured clothes and noises up top a famous mountain
Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner
progressive(ish) proto-modernism from 1880s South Africa
Resistance by Julian Fuks
quite a serious shortish book it’s easy to make sound good (which doesn’t mean it was???)
In The Shadow of the Springs I Saw by Barbara Adair
excellent polyvocal south african indie press book about an art deco district
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
read a book abour time travel while on holiday (yes, that’s an elephant)
video: korg.volca.keys.near.stellenbosch
more sound machine and mountain views
Reunion by Fred Uhlman
a tiny novella with a lot going on
Meat Love: An Ideology of the Flesh by Amber Husain
anti-meat text that confronts (but in a “healthy debate” kinda way) the meat eating majority
The Last Lesbian Bar in the Midlands by cleo henry
a really very excellent set of poems
In The End, It Was All About Love by Musa Okwongo
it’s good flaneur-type stuff so it’s a yes yes yes from me but it did make me think
The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey
flipping your fins you don’t get too far
Goodbye Chunky Rice by Craig Thompson
a comic book that has – for me – nothing to recommend it
Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth by Naguib Mahfouz
a 1980s historical novel….. FROM EGYPT!?!?!?!?
video: drum.machine.by.a.lake.near.the.top.of.a.mountain
one last go of drum machine from my recent northern trip
Sumerian Mythology by Samuel Noah Kramer
sumerian myths are no sookie stackhouse
Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse #2)
do vampires jizz blood???
James Baldwin: Living in Fire by Bill V. Mullen
an interesting – tho intentionally unemotive – biography of Big Jimmy B
Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse #1)
thank you charlaine harris for this perfect trashy novel
video: drum.machine.with.a.panorama.of.derwentwater
the view is nice and so is the dog
notes on a radical pamphlet #5: the reproduction of daily life by Fredy Perlman
another entry in a series of writings on short political texts
These Bones Will Rise Again by Panashe Chigumadzi
notes on a political essay (slightly too big for a radical pamphlet)
A Small Personal Voice by Doris Lessing (ed. Paul Schlueter)
some beautiful, thematically varied, writings
Video: drum.machine.in.the.lakes
little play with a drum machine with a view
Aseroë by François Dominique
dull, preening, “literature” with no redeeming features (for me)
notes on a radical pamphlet #4: God’s Hit List edited by Chaz Bufe
…a triumph of the now series continues…
Triumph Of The Now 