The Sauna Series — Scott Manley Hadley — minor literature[s]
Scott Manley Hadley is a literary blogger and poet. Renowned for his candid and tongue-in-cheek reviewing style he’s also aContinue Reading
Category: Musings
Philosophical Toys by Susana Medina
sad man scotty writes about being sad
#BadBoyPoet Spotify Playlist
feelin stressed so made a playlist
Scott In A Podcast on His Poetry
hear my voice, reacquaint yourselves with my fallibility
Scott Manley Hadley ON THE BBC
talking about my bald head and my sufficient pubes to camera
Eulogy for Philip Hadley
the speech i read at my grandfather’s funeral
Birthday Literary Suicide Tour
So I walk on towards deaths (plural) in the cooling twilight
On Not Being Suicidal Anymore
I nearly get hit by a speeding car and realise I want to LIVE
#Breakdown: What happened to the blogging?
I have mental health problems
On Cutting Down the Levity [from 2015]
an unpublished, unfinished post about antidepressants from 2015
Ensayo en Español: La vida de B. S. Johnson
Quieres informática biográfica sobre B. S. Johnson?
In Love With HS2 & Awards Excitement
new article & award attention elsewhere
On Urinals
How many men must a man urinate in front of before you can call him a man?
in print alert / in paper print / paper print alert / in paper alert
read all about bs johnson – like this blog but in a book
Music act SOLID BALD performs ‘SexBomb’
Life means nothing. So you may as well sing:
Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl
Fantastic Mr Fox is an ode to adventure capitalism. My life is an ode to wine.
Birthday Post: 6,500 Words on Skyfall
It’s my birthday and I’ll write 6,500 words on Skyfall if I want to
lst nite i drmt tht smbdy lvd me
someone has written about me
R u a gay or a racist???
A bald head looks like the tip of an erect penis without the external urethral meatus.
Baldness Article #2
Mr Hip-Scott himself is back on the HuffPo
kill yourself, you hipster faggot
some anonymous little merican sent poppa some h8 mail and poppa aint havin none of it
Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume
I don’t know where this book came from. I know I bought it, I’m pretty certain I went out ofContinue Reading
Leviathan or, The Whale by Philip Hoare
Whales. What are they? Who are they? And why did humans stop killing them just before their extinction was finallyContinue Reading
The Sugar Syndrome by Lucy Prebble
I haven’t read a play for a while. I used to read plays all the time, it was one ofContinue Reading
Distracted Holiday Book Review: The Fields by Kevin Maher and Season One of Game of Thrones
Kevin Maher’s The Fields is a hilarious, moving and impressively broad coming of age novel set (mostly in Dublin) inContinue Reading
A Long Weekend in Italy: Naples, Pompeii and Capri
Mount Vesuvius is big. It creaks over Naples from the southeast, with a threat made obvious by the fame ofContinue Reading
On Not Publishing A Naked Picture of Myself Yesterday
Yesterday I took a naked photograph of myself – from behind – to use as the accompanying picture for myContinue Reading
Sectioned: A Life Interrupted by John O’Donoghue
Sectioned: A Life Interrupted is a recent memoir by John O’Donoghue, a man who spent his teens and twentiesContinue Reading
On Appreciating Graham Greene
I just reread Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair as it’s being discussed in a class I have this week.Continue Reading
On Going To The Football
Last Saturday I did something utterly unprecedented and attended a professional football match. It feels like it happened ages ago,Continue Reading
Review of 2013
A hip-hop review of the year now ending.
On The Stage
I had not been in front of an audience, on a stage, for several years until this week. Then, fromContinue Reading
The Atrocity Exhibition by JG Ballard
This is the first book I have ever read by JG Ballard. I haven’t read any of his famous ones,Continue Reading
On Coming Out As A Catholic
I’ve decided that from now on I am going to self-identify as a Catholic. A couple of days ago IContinue Reading
On Missing Linguistic Isolation
Something clicked in my head while I was away this Summer. I don’t know if it was something I ate,Continue Reading
On The Dotted Line: Signatures, Sobriety*, Schoolbooks & Shearing
So, I’ve been back in the UK for three weeks. What have I been up to? Where has the streamContinue Reading
Birthday Blog Post: You Ain’t Achieved Nothin’ Yet, OR Old Men, On The Road and Becoming an Old Man On The Road
Twenty five is not, in itself, a significant birthday. However, it does mean that one has distinctly reached an ageContinue Reading
Scott Manley Hadley, Queen of Carthage (It Reminds Me That It’s Not So Bad, It’s Not So Ba-ah-ad)*
Despite dandling no one on my lap, my time in Tunis (so far) has been a highspincycle of emotion. ThereContinue Reading
Of Mutability, Sad and Sand: Me Reading Jo Shapcott in the Sahara Desert as I Really Start To Feel The Loss Of The Anti-Depressants
I’m pretty certain, as I write this on the minibus back to Marrakech, that I have sand inside my anus.Continue Reading
On the Future of This Blog
Right. I am finally taking my own titular advice to heart and heading off for a little bit of living.Continue Reading
On Seeing A Man Who Looked Just Like A Gnome.
Earlier today I passed a man who looked just like a gnome. Minus the hat. He was hatless. And hairless.Continue Reading
On Walthamstow Market and Feeling the Best I’ve Felt In Fucking Ages
Pursuing bright green polyester with the intention of creating an amateur video effects lab, I got up and out ofContinue Reading
Folk Songs
A video of me performing some old songs. I’m considering gigging with my raps soon. Terrifying.
On Granta’s Best Young British Novelists 4
It’s not a book, so I shan’t provide a review as if it were one, but over the last fewContinue Reading
On Cocaine at the Hay-on-Wye Festival
I stumbled, heady on free cheese and Spanish lager, into a temporary toilet cubicle at the Hay-on-Wye literary festival, lockedContinue Reading
On The Fear That I May Be A Tragic Figure
Last night, on the way home from central London, I saw something that shook me up a little. Not somethingContinue Reading
Sad Man On A Beach
Please watch my new short film where, a la B. S. Johnson, I openly discuss the way I see theContinue Reading
On Today’s Self-Indulgent Recreational Activity
I have decided, mostly as a way of procrastinating before a) sending off my first novel to agents or b)Continue Reading
On My First Wrinkle
This week I have developed, or at the very least noticed, my first wrinkle. It is above and to theContinue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 