Soft & Cuddly by 🙏 Jarett Kobek 🙏
a minor kobek is a major good read
Tag: 1980s
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!
Under Country by Jonathan Trigell
contemporary fiction on the last quarter of the 20th century
Why I Hate Saturn by Kyle Baker
why i didn’t like why i hate saturn
Joan Didion: The 1980s & 90s (PART ONE)
re-reading Joan Didion for the first time in my life
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 Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
some naughty naughty monks
Utopia by Bernadette Mayer
a great book, a terrible blog
Always Coming Home by Ursula Le Guin
impressive experimental speculative fiction
Insane by Rainald Goetz
an intense, disconcerting, spectacular novel
And The Band Played On by Randy Shilts
an essential non-fiction read and a new documentary on its legacy
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.
Distracted Holiday Book Review: The Fields by Kevin Maher and Season One of Game of Thrones
Kevin Maher’s The Fields is a hilarious, moving and impressively broad coming of age novel set (mostly in Dublin) inContinue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 