MICROPOST Thrust: A Spasmodic Pictorial History of the Codpiece in Art by Michael Glover
the book’s basically a listicle – remember those???
Tag: ageing
Winter Journey by Eva Figes
1967 and old men are walking in winter
I Is Another by Jon Fosse (Septology III – V)
an excellent novel (& a guest cat in the pic!!!)
Trigger Mortis by Anthony Horowitz
i read another book i probably wouldn’t read if i had self-respect
Three Books, One Post
consistently reading more than i can blog (or do anything else)
Surrender by Joanna Pocock
big post on privilege, re-wilding, ageing; a phenomenal read
Blue Nights by Joan Didion
very little on the book, lots of rage at the slow quietening of June’s global protest movement
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
reading the best of books in the worst of times
Look Back In Anger by John Osborne
further disintegration as i read a play that hasn’t aged well
Finding Time Again (À la recherche du temps perdu 7) by Marcel Proust
bye bye marcel, marcel bye bye
Bad Boy Poet: LIVE TONIGHT IN DALSTON
BOOK LAUNCH TONIGHT NOVEMBER 14TH 2018
Birthday Post: 30 Things I’ve Done, 30 Things I Haven’t
it’s my 30th birthday
My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf
a dark, engaging, affecting read
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
very booker prize winnery booker prize winner
Nearly 30 by Joe Woodhouse
bienvenido a la triumphofthenow.com poetry season 2018
Notes From No Man’s Land by Eula Biss
great essay collection… from america
White Girls by Hilton Als
Off the booze (again), I enjoy a book but despair of life.
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
Home and Away by Karl Ove Knausgaard and Fredrik Ekelund
A charming, quirky, book tainted by middle aged white male bullshit.
Hip-Scott “En Toure”: The Documentary
Hip-Scott, flailing, live in Marseille.
The Violet Hour by Katie Roiphe
All Men Must Die, innit?
Baldness Article #2
Mr Hip-Scott himself is back on the HuffPo
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon
Where is Pittsburgh? At any point while I read this novel, I could’ve looked it up. I didn’t, and I’mContinue Reading
Some Rain Must Fall: My Struggle Book Five by Karl Ove Knausgaard
It’s taken me a few more days than I’d hoped, but I’ve just finished reading the fifth book of KarlContinue Reading
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
Many people have told me that The Waves is Virginia Woolf’s best work. Many people have told me I should readContinue Reading
Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
Last night, as I wandered between bars and cafes in Taksim, North of the Golden Horn, I read most ofContinue Reading
The Birds by Tarjei Vesaas
Obnoxiously (the manner in which I do most things), I read Tarjei Vesaas’ The Birds because Karl Ove Knausgaard refersContinue Reading
Life, End of by Christine Brooke-Rose
Well, this is a rather painfully depressing read. Life, End of was Christine Brooke-Rose’s final novel, one written in herContinue Reading
Scum by Isaac Bashevis Singer
My pile of books, towering as it often is in January, needs to be got through. So in order toContinue Reading
The thing about life is that one day you’ll be dead by David Shields
David Shields’ The thing about life is that one day you’ll be dead manages to be simultaneously heart-breakingly depressing whilstContinue Reading
Birthday Blog Post: You Ain’t Achieved Nothin’ Yet, OR Old Men, On The Road and Becoming an Old Man On The Road
Twenty five is not, in itself, a significant birthday. However, it does mean that one has distinctly reached an ageContinue 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
On My First Wrinkle
This week I have developed, or at the very least noticed, my first wrinkle. It is above and to theContinue Reading
On Toys For Old Men
An old man died in the house I currently live in. Although the smell has now dissipated, what remains isContinue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 