50 Words on Each of the Essays in Joan Didion’s Let Me Tell You What I Mean
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James Baldwin Threeway
baldwin, baldwin, baldwin
The Inheritance Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin
i move thru 2021 like a dying ghost
one day I read 5ive plays by Arthur Miller
on january 2nd, 2021, i read FIVE arthur miller plays
The Magus: A Revised Version by John Fowles
sleazy, sexy, postmodern novel
who we’re reading when we’re reading murakami by David Karashima
an excellent book about books
Not Really A Review of Not Really A Year
my year was deathly dull, which in 2020 counts as a good year
This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart by Madhur Anand
a blog about a book (yes i do still do these)
Four New Songs
solid bald sings four times again
Three Books, One Post
consistently reading more than i can blog (or do anything else)
The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman
forget the infamously sleazy page-and-a-half and enjoy!
Norma Jeane Baker of Troy by Anne Carson
great little recent book from one of literature’s best
Clay’s Ark by Octavia E. Butler
an excellent short genre piece
Notes on Four Books I Read Months Ago
notes on four books i read earlier in the year
Winter in July by Doris Lessing
short stories about non-monogamous colonial types
The Seep by Chana Porter
very gen x “internet is bad” vibes
Happy Birthday, Cubby!!!
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Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt
another entry where i get weirdly pro death penalty
Sharks In The Time of Saviors [sic] by Kawai Strong Washburn
but sharks are evil, right?
Out of Time by James P Hogan
descends into a rant about frottage
the heads of cerberus by Francis Stevens
early sci-fi and smh so sad
Paying the Land by Joe Sacco
not a sacco sh*it
The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin
a fun book but not a real one, y’know
South and West by Joan Didion
3 lines on joan didion and 1000 words on my terrible mental health lol
Noted Poet Andrew McMillan enjoys the pleasure of regret
“it’s great”, he tweeted
Some Fragments of Incomplete Lockdown Blogs
Richard Wright in Franco’s Spain and other fragments
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
well, it’s a “classic” and now i’ve read it
Blood on the Forge by William Attaway
phenomenal, wise, novel about the great migration and the manipulation of white working class resentment
The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin
i eavesdrop on some people planning a big party night then go home and read nerdy fiction; bored
The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
a blog from when the [first?] lockdown eased
Surrender by Joanna Pocock
big post on privilege, re-wilding, ageing; a phenomenal read
In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
i read a great Toronto novel and recall summer 2019 when I worked at lux events
The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
accidentally read a right-wing novel; thoughts about returning to work mid-pandemic
Movements in European History by DH Lawrence
a mediocre history text then a pro-UBI, anti-“the Arts is special” rant
solid bald – father figure
another year older, another year bald, eugh.
The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante
yes it is good and i got to read it slightly early and for free
Hello Friend We Missed You by Richard Owain Roberts
disjointed blog post on a very affecting new novel
Poo Become One
wacky promo video for still-in-production TRUTHER PRESS poo anthology
Blue Nights by Joan Didion
very little on the book, lots of rage at the slow quietening of June’s global protest movement
Washington Square by Henry James
a mediocre short novel
Passing Ceremony by Helen Weinzweig
flawless 1970s fiction exploring dementia; plus shirtless pic
Ian Fleming’s James Bond in Role of Honor [sic] by John Gardner
a comfort: Gardner’s ignorance of affluence shows he never got rich from these terrible books
The Proust Screenplay by Harold Pinter
to adapt is not to survive
the mirror and the light by hilary mantel
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Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
a blog post that fell apart so much i paused the blog for six weeks
The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
hide the dfw; notes on craft & posthumous novels
the story of the lost child by elena ferrante
two and a half months ago i read an incredible novel
This Is Where I Get Off by KIRBY
great poetry, i whinge about lockdown innit
Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
a lovely lockdown trip down the middle of the road
Triumph Of The Now 