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Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie
Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Trilogy ends with a whimper (I wanted a bang)
Soft & Cuddly by 🙏 Jarett Kobek 🙏
a minor kobek is a major good read
We Do This ‘Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba
hope is a discipline, and I am undisciplined
The Autobiography of Malcolm X with Alex Haley
some thoughts on reading one of the 20th century’s most important books
Variations on the Body by María Ospina
a supposedly transgressive thing i’ll probably do again
ATTA by 🙏Jarett Kobek🙏
anti 9/11, anti Richmond, pro Jarett Kobek
Solitudes by Luis de Góngora
leave this book where it belongs – 400 years ago!
2022 REVIEW: FOR ME, IT WAS MIXED
that wasn’t very good for me
the lady and the little fox fur by Violette Leduc
definitely not a recent reading highlight…
Strangers Within: Documentary as Encounter, edited by Therese Henningsen & Juliette Joffé
mostly great anthology about filmmaking and strangers that gets too academic (for me) by its end
the heart of the matter by Graham Greene
1948 novel about a sad catholic with too many girlfriends
The Future Won’t Be Long by 🙏Jarett Kobek 🙏
one of the best normal books you’ve never read
Sex Dolls at Sea: Imagined Histories of Sexual Technologies by Bo Ruberg
sailors sharing sex dolls; a compromised text on compromised sex
Mothers Don’t by Katixa Agirre
If you do not feel or even believe in love, then how and why would you bring others into the nightmare that is existence?
THRU by Christine Brooke-Rose
Christmas Brooke-Rose Quadrilogy day 4/4
Between by Christine Brooke-Rose
Christmas Brooke-Rose quadrilogy day 3/4
SUCH by Christine Brooke-Rose
Christmas Brooke-Rose quadrilogy day 2/4
OUT by Christine Brooke-Rose
christmas brooke-rose quadrilogy day 1/4
MICROPOST Thrust: A Spasmodic Pictorial History of the Codpiece in Art by Michael Glover
the book’s basically a listicle – remember those???
the disappearance of Joseph Mengele by Olivier Guez
reading another novel about nazis, but this is not a romp
Lady Joker by Kaoru Takamura
half of a crime novel
The Evidence of Things Not Seen by James Baldwin
it’s not Baldwin’s best, but it’s better than most books by everyone else!
Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
maybe walking blind into the desert is the bravest thing to do
The Yellow House by Sarah M Broom
boooorrrrriiiiinnnggg
Under Country by Jonathan Trigell
contemporary fiction on the last quarter of the 20th century
My Dead Book by Nate Lippens
breathtaking book on death
The Passengers by Will Ashon
an excellent book
The Angry Brigade by James Graham
eww i read some centrist art by mistake
The Angry Brigade 1967-1984: Documents & Chronology
After reading my new favourite novel, The Angry Brigade by Alan Burns, I immediately leapt to one of the twoContinue Reading
The Angry Brigade by Alan Burns
unexpectedly, one of the best books i’ve ever read
On Lighthouses by Jazmina Barrera
some notes on a book of notes about lighthouses
Golden Apple of the Sun by Teju Cole
strongest lockdown lit i’ve (yet) to encounter
Winter Journey by Eva Figes
1967 and old men are walking in winter
The Lost Spell by Yismake Worku
some contemporary ethiopian magical realism
Thread Ripper by Amalie Smith
a gorgeous book
POETRY MONTH: text redacted from 2017 SAFE MODE by Sam Riviere blog post
redacted text from septy ’17
POETRY MONTH: Rewriting Stella by Dan Tuttle
~800 plot-driven sonnets, anyone???
POETRY MONTH: Caviar by Sarah Fletcher
intellectual poems that don’t become impersonal
POETRY MONTH: Broken Sleep Anthology 2019
broken sleep’s second annual anthology
POETRY MONTH: 81 Austerities by Sam Riviere
objectively brilliant, yes, but not not not so good for me?
POETRY MONTH: Liver Mush by Graham Irvin
“People eat what they can. They love what can love them back.”
POETRY MONTH: The Nancy Reagan Collection by Maxe Crandall
i read some poems on the backlot throat goat
POETRY MONTH: Stefan Mohamed INTERVIEW
the FIRST TriumphOfTheNow.com DM interview!!!
POETRY MONTH: Dreich #3
Today we’re (I’m) looking at another poetry magazine. I’m not quite sure if this one is a magazine or ifContinue Reading
POETRY MONTH: Acorn by Yoko Ono
is “art writing” poetry? / is “poetry” art writing?
POETRY MONTH: Bless The Daughter Raised By A Voice In Her Head by Warsan Shire
incredibly good popular poetry from Beyoncé’s collaborator
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