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Swinging the Maelstrom: A Critical Edition by Malcolm Lowry
Lunar Caustic is a lie.
Baldies vs. Real Men
Bald men: Another Victim of the Patriarchy
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
This dystopian novel feels a bit too 2016…
Music act SOLID BALD performs ‘SexBomb’
Life means nothing. So you may as well sing:
Forbidden Line by Paul Stanbridge
a review of a difficult book
Tres by Roberto Bolaño
A glimmer of hope: I am almost able to read in Spanish.
Mornings in Mexico by D. H. Lawrence
DHL happy in Mexico, then beautifully sad elsewhere.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
an accurate depiction of the lust and boredom that threatens to overwhelm all of us who aren’t pious, delusional, fuckheads
Hillary Clinton Haiku by Vera G. Shaw
This isn’t a real review of a real book, IT’S SCOTT ON SOCIAL ANXIETY!!!
do you wanna learn about my pubes?
no hair on my head, loads of hair on my balls
Berg by Ann Quin
“Help me, help me,” I cry, “I’m too sober to read”.
“Cuban Prostitutes” from Tell Me About Love
In memory of Fidel Castro, some prose inspired by Pedro Juan Gutierrez from a decade ago.
Home and Away by Karl Ove Knausgaard and Fredrik Ekelund
A charming, quirky, book tainted by middle aged white male bullshit.
The Fictional Man by Al Ewing
I read some serviceable pulp.
The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney
I’m bored of life, but this book’s a banger.
The Fight by Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer writes energetically and racistly about boxing
The Bricks That Built the Houses by Kate Tempest
The publishing industry has fucked over Kate Tempest.
On translation and Quiet Flows the Una by Faruk Šehić
Gorgeous Bosnian novel and my thoughts on the role of translators
[sung] oooh, fellas: what’s ya dicksiiiize?
A 4 second Noise Piece and a link to more madness at the HuffPo
Suicide Notes by Lewis Parker
Another book of poetry from up-and-coming indie publisher Morbid Books.
The Last Holiday: A Memoir by Gil Scott-Heron
The ‘Godfather of Rap’ offers a rose-tinted memoir.
Preacher: Book Four by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
Preacher is fine, but it’s irrelevant to real life. I should adopt a Syrian child refugee.
Sodom and Gomorrah (À la recherche du temps perdu 4) by Marcel Proust
A La Recherche du Temps Perdu 4: This Time It’s Gay
Hip-Scott “En Toure”: The Documentary
Hip-Scott, flailing, live in Marseille.
Tom Jones Camino Karaoke Compilation
In the Summer of 2016, Scott Manley Hadley walked and sang his way across Spain.
On Dressing Down & The Tragedy of Fidel Castro
A book that makes big promises without sufficient returns…
The Violet Hour by Katie Roiphe
All Men Must Die, innit?
The 24-Hour Wine Expert by Jancis Robinson
Should non-fiction books about intoxicants even be legal, yeah?
Zone by Mathias Enard
pleasure is a lightening bolt that leaves no trace
more online male-centric feminism
More writing from that weird character I do at Huffington Post.
On a Chinese Screen by W. Somerset Maugham
Very Colonial travel writing from author of The Painted Veil
Radar Road: The Best of On Impulse by Nath Jones
A short story collection, and my first experience of an eBook.
Love Notes to Men Who Don’t Read by North Morgan
Absolutely knock out novel about the gay bro scene.
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
because white men can’t / police their imagination / black men are dying
Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl
Fantastic Mr Fox is an ode to adventure capitalism. My life is an ode to wine.
do u have a sexist friend?
relentlessly promoting my anti-london agenda
Vampire in Love by Enrique Vila-Matas
Experimental late 20th century short fiction.
The Short Anthology: The Second Issue (edited by Will Martin & Kat Phan)
A collection of short fiction inspired by photography.
D. H. Lawrence and Italy
I review a Lawrentian travel writing collection containing Twilight in Italy, Sea and Sardinia and Sketches of Etruscan Places.
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
100 Haikus about Haemorrhoid Cream by Lewis Parker & Friends
I met a stranger off the internet and he gave it to me.
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Can I write about writing about race without discussing race? No.
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
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by Jack Thorne
This is great fun, but absolutely fucking terrible.
Salvador by Joan Didion
In 2010 I produced a farce set in the El Salvadorian Civil War. In 2016 I learnt about the El Salvadorian Civil War.
One of Us by Åsne Seierstad
A beautiful book about a horrible thing.
I Write Self-Involved Book Review For Another Site
I read and discuss a book about dickhead hipster bartenders, just weeks after stopping being one.
Triumph Of The Now 