Hold Tight by Jeffrey Boakye
i’m looking tired but feeling great
Latest Posts
#TotNTV: Place
Nikolaidis, Li, Frears on Place
#TotNTV: Travel & Tourism
start of a new series of themed episodes on place
Notes From No Man’s Land by Eula Biss
great essay collection… from america
#TotNTV: Clothing & Identity
William Wyld & Chris Nelson discuss the relationship between clothing and identity.
#TotNTV: SEX
Chris Nelson, Ella Frears, David Ralfe & William Wyld chat sex.
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
I try being kind to myself. It’s alright.
#TotNTV: Fatherhood
boys becoming men / men becoming fathers
#TotNTV: Men & Emotions
in which I ask loadsa men about crying
#TotNTV: Chris Jones on Prison
Chris Jones speaks about a hyper male environment.
#TotNTV: Listening
Winnie M Li and David Ralfe discuss the importance of listening:
#TotNTV: Definitions
My weird (and arguably ill judged) season of #TotNTV episodes on gender continues with an episode on words and definitons.Continue Reading
#TotNTV: Asking Questions About Gender
Potentially ill-judged exploration of gender from a cis white man
50 Euro by Karina Bush
if sex sells who’s buying
The Voyage that Never Ends: Malcolm Lowry In His Own Words edited by Michael Hofmann
Is The Best of Malcolm Lowry your favourite Malcolm Lowry book?
On Not Being Suicidal Anymore
I nearly get hit by a speeding car and realise I want to LIVE
#TotNTV: Winnie M Li & Dark Chapter
#TotNTV episode discussing a novel about sexual assault
#Breakdown: What happened to the blogging?
I have mental health problems
Dreaming In Starlight by Philip Elliott
I review an eBook for another website.
Home is on my Mind… by Sheena Rose
Review of a lo-fi art book and footnotes about depression
Rebuttal from Lewis Parker
A disgruntled former reviewee comes back to work packing heat.
Everybody Behaves Badly by Lesley M. M. Blume
Can I love Hemingway’s writing but hate Hemingway?
Street Epistles by Faruk Šehić
Great poems from an EU Prize winner; the peripatetic blogger continues to splinter
Sex With Theresa May And Other Fantasies by Lewis Parker
Some utter filth, but too much aggression for my comfort
The Best of A Bad Situation by Jamie Thrasivoulou
Angry poetry from the badlands of the East Midlands.
The Africa In My House by Andrea Mbarushimana
A British woman considers the life of her Rwandan husband and his country.
Enemies of the People by Sam Jordison
Who does the bad thing?
Pissing off White Men Again
Some tweet responses from my latest HuffPost article.
The Human Condition Is A Terminal Illness by Matthew J. Hall
Poems about sad, lonely, englishmen
Blue Self-Portrait by Noémi Lefebvre
Some newly-translated cracking French fiction
Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet (Book One) by Ta-Nehisi Coates & Brian Stelfreeze
A collection that would be exciting if there was more of it…
Raymond Chandler: The Detections of Totality by Fredric Jameson
A pointless book for pointless people.
Dark Chapter by Winnie M Li
An important new novel about sexual assault. Long post.
Extravagant Stranger: A Memoir by Daniel Roy Connelly
A book that describes itself as “Ian Fleming meets Rimbaud”
Gross In Feather, Loud In Voice by Judson Hamilton
Emotive, bizarre, inventive, stories.
Triumph of the Now TV
home of the lo-fi magazine web series
The Night Visitors by Jenn Ashworth & Richard V. Hirst
Great book, plus lots about why I didn’t win the award I was shortlisted for.
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West
Wonderful, massive, beautiful, biased.
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?
busy busy busy busy
I’ve been busy busy busy doing lots of different things, including writing two new articles for the Huffington Post andContinue Reading
Music & Literature No. 7
I get angry and confused because I’m repressed and have elitist interests
The Son by Andrej Nikolaidis
More contemporary Balkan writings and my opinions on criminalisation of narcotics
Till Kingdom Come by Andrej Nikolaidis
Some cracking Montenegrin fiction
In Love With HS2 & Awards Excitement
new article & award attention elsewhere
The Coming by Andrej Nikolaidis
My Balkan adventure continues
Homunculus by Aleksandar Prokopiev
Contemporary fairy tales from Macedonia
Happy Ending NOT Guaranteed by Liam Hogan
My latest review over at Open Pen discusses the point of fiction…
The Ladybird Book of The Hangover by J.A. Hazeley & J.P. Morris
Humour books about the bottle don’t sit right
Cubby’s Adventures in Petlandia by Steve Cleverley & Katja Hammond
Read about my problematic relationship… with my dog.
Triumph Of The Now 