Reunion by Fred Uhlman
a tiny novella with a lot going on
Category: Book Review
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!?!?!?!?
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
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…
LOTE by Shola von Reinhold
it’s not short, it’s not sexy, it’s not sad… it’s also not shit!!!
Tripticks by Ann Quin
am i too stoopid to enjoy ann quin? maybe maybe not?
Fiebre Tropical by Julián Delgado Lopera
was i too old for this one or just too depressed???
Video: Santander (a 40 minute improvised monologue)
40 mins of talk and shots of rainy northern spain
Trust by Hernan Diaz
solid if unoriginal “original literary fiction”
Happy Like Murderers by Gordon Burn
strict taboos put us all in danger: smh on fred + rose west
Gilgi, One of Us by Irmgard Keun
some wiemar fiction that (still?) resonates
Ex Machina Book #1 by Brian K Vaughan & Tony Harris
a fine read, especially as it only cost me a pound (english for money)
my body would be the kindest of strangers by fiona helmsley
exceptional collection of writing you should definitely read
notes on a radical pamphlet #3: From Animals To Anarchism by Kevin Watkinson & Donal O’Driscoll
notes on a radical pamphlet is an occasional series
God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert (Dune #4)
dune but not forgotten
Sevastopol by Emilio Fraia
three excellent short stories about memorialising and regret
X by Davey Davis
it’s not hardcore super sex (or maybe it is?)
The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings by James Baldwin
2010 collection of [some of?] Baldwin’s uncollected short pieces
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
a bleak future that looks a lot like the bleak past
Ethel & Ernest by Raymond Briggs
a book about some of the worst people in the world
Ghost Clinic by Nathaniel King
hauntology is not just a spotify playlist
American Vampire #1 by Scott Snyder, Rafael Albuquerque & Stephen King
a comic book that’s errr fine i suppose
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe
some prix added a terrible poem to the end of a cracking book of stories
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe
excellent novel about a dickhead dicking about like a dick
Protected: No Quiet Water by Shirley Miller Kamada (full review)
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No Quiet Water by Shirley Miller Kamada (summary)
an important topic, at least?
A Spy In Time by Imraan Coovadia
a book that disproves a rule: this could have been longer!
Space Crone by Ursula K Le Guin
read a little guin
Weird Fucks by Lynne Tillman
great very short book that never gets *that* weird
The Carnivorous Plant by Andrea Mayo
an excellent (maybe?) novel about an abusive relationship
Going Home by Doris Lessing
doris lessing returns to the southern rhodesia of her youth
Nuclear War in the UK by Taras Young
the history of an apocalypse that never happened (yet)
Writin’ Dirty: An Anthology by Byron Crawford
this is a blog post on a book of blog posts
We Were Younger Once by Kiona Callihoo Ligtvoet
lovely graphic memoir from a small Canadian indie
Triumph Of The Now 