POETRY MONTH: HEROIN HAIKUS by William Wantling
a gorgeous chapbook kicks off POETRY MONTH
Tag: addiction
Middle Passage by Charles Johnson
middling swashbuckling adventure
Paying the Land by Joe Sacco
not a sacco sh*it
Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq
great prose-verse novel about nunavut in the 70s
John Barleycorn by Jack London
1914 memoir about alcoholism that oozes big denial
That Lonesome Valley by Melissa Lee-Houghton
some thoughts on a novel you should probably read
My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf
a dark, engaging, affecting read
LOST #TotNTV EPISODE: Lily Dunn
A Wild and Precious Life
Every Love Story Is A Ghost Story by D. T. Max
David Foster Wallace was a prick.
The Best of A Bad Situation by Jamie Thrasivoulou
Angry poetry from the badlands of the East Midlands.
Music & Literature No. 7
I get angry and confused because I’m repressed and have elitist interests
The Ladybird Book of The Hangover by J.A. Hazeley & J.P. Morris
Humour books about the bottle don’t sit right
Nicotine by Gregor Hens
If Gregor Hens can give up smoking, I can give up booze.
Ice by Anna Kavan
x, x, baby / you’re cold as x / didn’t have x cube so you bought vanilla x
Swinging the Maelstrom: A Critical Edition by Malcolm Lowry
Lunar Caustic is a lie.
Berg by Ann Quin
“Help me, help me,” I cry, “I’m too sober to read”.
The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney
I’m bored of life, but this book’s a banger.
Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl
Fantastic Mr Fox is an ode to adventure capitalism. My life is an ode to wine.
Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume
I don’t know where this book came from. I know I bought it, I’m pretty certain I went out ofContinue Reading
Recovery by John Berryman
Long before James Frey was breaking Oprah Winfrey’s fragile heart by fictionalising his time in addiction therapy and the behaviourContinue Reading
So Sad Today: Personal Essays by Melissa Broder
I shouldn’t have read this. CONTEXT: I walk a tightrope, emotionally, one that has become longer and looser ever sinceContinue Reading
The Trip to Echo Spring by Olivia Laing
I’m an abyss filling up with regret and alcohol at equal measure, like a really wet martini.
Hip-Scott: Pass the Dostoevsky on the Left Hand Side
Please enjoy my hot new drag-hop video:
¡Tequila!: Distilling the Spirit of Mexico by Marie Sarita Gaytán
Marie Sarita Gaytán is an American academic (an Assistant Professor of Sociology) and ¡Tequila!: Distilling the Spirit of Mexico is anContinue Reading
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
The Vegetarian by Han Kang is an odd book. I bought it for myself on my mad, wild, Foyles birthdayContinue Reading
Malcolm Lowry: Psalms and Songs (edited by Margerie Lowry
Psalms and Songs is an odd book, a collection of short stories by Malcolm Lowry (some previously published, others unfinished),Continue Reading
The Lost Weekend by Charles Jackson
Malcolm Lowry, secret hero of these blog posts, fell into a deep depression after the publication of Charles Jackson’s TheContinue Reading
Viper Wine by Hermione Eyre
I often state that me taking more than a week to read anything, irrelevant of size, is a sign thatContinue Reading
Filth by Irvine Welsh
Recently I’ve been very much enjoying Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong*’s Channel 4 police drama, Babylon. This under-watched TV showContinue Reading
Maya’s Notebook by Isabel Allende
I’ve said it before and I will say it again: Isabel Allende is brilliant, an under-rated writer of supreme skill,Continue Reading
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
This is a book I’ve read a lot about. It is referred to repeatedly in both Ben Yagoda’s Memoir: AContinue Reading
Opium: The Diary of his Cure by Jean Cocteau
Opium: The Diary of his Cure is an odd, but engaging, book by the French not-Surrealist modernist Jean Cocteau. FriendContinue Reading
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey
Thomas de Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is basically a mediocre 19th century Trainspotting, but without the funny, sad or exciting bitsContinue Reading
Junky (The Definitive Text of ‘Junk’) by William S. Burroughs
After the horrors I went through when I gave up my serious ibuprofen addiction last week (surprisingly messy), I thoughtContinue Reading
On Not Being Bowles-ed Over by Paul Bowles’ Let It Come Down
Spent two nights in Marrakech, ran into most of the people I’d met before, had a pleasant time, but I’mContinue Reading
Under The Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
Malcolm Lowry was a tragic figure. A hugely talented writer, yet an alcoholic of such self-destructive proportions that he diedContinue Reading
Sad Man On A Beach
Please watch my new short film where, a la B. S. Johnson, I openly discuss the way I see theContinue Reading
Rap In Progress
What’s that? You’d like to understand a bit more about the way Hip-Scott writes his raps? Sure thing! Here’s aContinue Reading
On The Fear of Things I’ve Laughed Uproariously At Other People For In The Past Becoming Traits/Weaknesses I Display
It’s water in that glass. Hence the face. I’ve been drinking a lot of Port recently. This happened for threeContinue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 