since my last birthday I witnessed a birth
this year I’ve started doing things that I don’t regret
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Three by Ann Quin
a 1960s novel about unhappy, repressed, people making everything worse for themselves and others
On Cuddling: Loved to Death in the Racial Embrace by Phanuel Antwi
an unhappy epiphany as I realise why the academic form frustrates me
‘a timeline’ and ‘borderline personality disorder’ from the pleasure of regret – scott manley hadley: live at paradise (new web series episode)
more from my 2022-shot web series, this time on diagnoses and the passage of time
Quartet by Jean Rhys
excellent early novel from the writer who made Jane Eyre interesting again
Love Novel by Ivana Sajko
maybe im too damaged to see this bad romance how it was written… for me, a love-affirming joy
‘under the lectern’ from the pleasure of regret – scott manley hadley: live at paradise (new web series episode)
on academia, class, education and enjoying the work of Malcolm Lowry
The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R. Delany
i think this was actally brilliant?
Dead Reckoning by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse / True Blood #11)
what’s for elevenses? blood blood blood blood blood
scat to be poo: an anthology about poo – scott manley hadley: live at paradise (new web series episode)
scott, cubby and some other friends (Chaucer, Joyce) discuss life at the bottom of the bowel
Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith
a great trad thriller in the sir ian fleming tradition
because earth is flat: a flat earth poetry collection – scott manley hadley: live at paradise (new web series episode)
the earth is flat; if it wasn’t, why would there be a whole book of poetry presuming it was???
my father, from a distance – scott manley hadley: live at paradise (new web series episode)
Filmed at the tail end of the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto’s historic Paradise Theatre on Bloor St W, the poet,Continue Reading
Moon of The Turning Leaves by Waubgeshig Rice
A sequel I wasn’t expecting (and that maybe wasn’t needed?), this big Canadian hit of last year is a powerhouseContinue Reading
BTS: COMEDIAN – scott manley hadley: live at paradise (new web series episode)
have you heard that people are reheating bread???
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
if the English state could clone the poor to harvest their organs, it would
video: it’s orange time – solid bald feat bb whamathan
a lovely song about oranges thank you
City Of A Thousand Suns by Samuel R. Delany (The Fall of The Towers #3)
This is the concluding part of the trilogy the fall of the towers, the earlier two volumes of which I’veContinue Reading
The Beauty Queen of Leenane & Other Plays by Martin McDonagh
three great plays from the younger brother of the guy who wrote and directed The Guard
The Towers of Toron by Samuel R. Delany (The Fall Of The Towers #2)
careening towards dystopias; long blog on a book, a baby and a uk election
Before The Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
pointless, underwritten, characterless character study that confuses naming emotive experiences with describing them; flat
god made my face edited by Hilton Als
a book of essays about James Baldwin; a treat for anyone with a soul
Out of the Dead City by Samuel R. Delany (The Fall of The Towers #1)
my second summer samuel treat
video: scott manley hadley tries stand up comedy
watch me name sex acts for almost two minutes!!!
Ina May’s Guide To Childbirth by Ina May Gaskin
reading an important guide to childbirth, something my pointless body will never do
The Jewels of Aptor by Samuel R. Delany
not the best next stop on my Samuel Delany journey, but this juvenilia is still a joy!
Don’t Panic by George Lewis
valuable and open-hearted – if gently laddish – book on parenting for non-birthing people
I Will Write To Avenge My People by Annie Ernaux (The Nobel Lecture)
a tiny book containing Ernaux’s Nobel address and some bumpf
Chapterhouse: Dune by Frank Herbert (Dune #6)
dune to myself as i would dune to others
The Birth Partner by Penny Simkin
a chilling book on the terrifying consequences of unrepresssed sexuality
This Wounded Island by J.W. Böhm
iiiiit’s good stuff but it’s a pretend book
video announcement: new web series incoming!
omg omg – a new web series is coming soon from scott manley hadley!!!
A free promotional Planet of the Apes comic I got from BMV on Bloor Street West a few weeks ago
reflecting on a free comic book and planet of the apes
Dead In The Family by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood #10
Charlaine Harris STUNS AGAIN with a metatextual coup de grace
Truth & Dare by So Mayer
stories of nb life & literature bring me down down down down down & i don’t think they’re meant to…
Writing Beer, Drinking Poetry by Gwil James Thomas
a poetry chapbook on drinking, not drinking and travel
Audition by Pip Adam
i think i liked this a lot, but possibly i maybe just agreed with it a lot?
The Beginning Place by Ursula K. Le Guin
a great brief obscure le guin
Death Egg by Nathaniel Duggan
the publisher behind Liver Mush returns with more poetry almost as good as Liver Mush
Babel by R. F. Kuang
a cracking idea, a knife-edge epilogue but too much brilliance and not enough sex
Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse #9)
no one deserves misery, which is why we should all be reading Stackhouse
‘a disgusting lie’ by Fran Lock
excellent serious poetry that escapes the drudge of the academy
George’s Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl
not marvellous and definitely not medicine… or literature
A Rap On Race by James Baldwin & Margaret Mead
an out of print James Baldwin from the mid-70s is a great little treat
video: live noise in the marshes – around and around
feedback loops in the marsh
Fabulae: How It Begins by Isabella Streffen
interesting contemporary poetry about detailed rereadings of books I haven’t read
Prisons We Choose To Live Inside by Doris Lessing
writing on the dangers of group mentalities, though pretty committed to one particular viewing of the world…
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
a solid memoir about the importance of food… and cancer
Triumph Of The Now 