The Essential Lenny Bruce: His Original Unexpurgated Satirical Routines, edited by John Cohen
reading some work of an important early comedian
Tag: America
The Exhaust of Dreams Adulterated by Jane Rosenberg LaForge
a lovely collection of engaging autobiographical poetry
Leave The World Behind by Rumaan Alam
halfwritten blog from a month ago with notes on the delay thank u for reading
VIDEO INTERVIEW: MATT NAGIN BONUS MATERIAL – WHAT MAKES A GOOD SHORT STORY? – Triumph Of The Now Interviews Ep. 4
bonus material with fictioneer and comedian Matt Nagin discussing what makes a good short story
VIDEO INTERVIEW: MATT NAGIN ON THE BOOK OF OUTCASTS – Triumph Of The Now Interviews Ep. 3
Fictioneer & comedian Matt Nagin joins smh to chat writing, reading, AI, travel, and all sorts of other fun
video: scott manley hadley returns to Will Mars’ Joke Thieves
watch a room full of people chant my name (I didn’t instigate it)
After Dead by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood #15 (of 13))
probably the greatest book of flash fiction ever published
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
a dystopia from the nineties reads too much like social realism…
Daddy Boy by Emerson Whitney
chasing tornadoes and remembering pasts
The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde
generations fought for a future that – this week – is being murdered on the world stage
Motion Sickness by Lynne Tillman
a surprisingly disappointing book about flaneuring about
The Motion Of Light In Water by Samuel R Delany
i thoroughly enjoyed this 1980s memoir about the halycon days of cruising (and sci-fi)
The Ballad of Beta-2 & Empire Star by Samuel R Delany
a pair of early novellas that really delivers, especially one
Deadlocked by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse #12)
in novel 12 of 13 i finally find something in Sookie Stackhouse i don’t like (that’s a joke i loved it)
Still Pictures: On Photography & Memory by Janet Malcolm
Janet Malcolm did it again one last time
Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith
a great trad thriller in the sir ian fleming tradition
Out of the Dead City by Samuel R. Delany (The Fall of The Towers #1)
my second summer samuel treat
Death Egg by Nathaniel Duggan
the publisher behind Liver Mush returns with more poetry almost as good as Liver Mush
Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse #9)
no one deserves misery, which is why we should all be reading Stackhouse
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
a solid memoir about the importance of food… and cancer
Matrix by Lauren Groff
a solid historical novel – won’t change your life, but a serviceable way to kill a few commutes!
Talking At The Gates: A Life of James Baldwin by James Campbell
a solid and non hagiographic literary biography
From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris (True Blood/Sookie Stackhouse Book #8)
i return to the perfect oeuvre of america’s greatest living novelist
This Is Not A Novel by David Markson
it is a novel, but it’s a good one
The Wind’s Twelve Quarters by Ursula K. Le Guin
some of the best fiction you’re likely to find… plus some stories that aren’t
Dune 5: Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert
how u dune? ur dune very well if ur dune 5
Spontaneous Particulars: The Telepathy of Archives by Susan Howe
interesting intellectualised essay on the beauty of physical literary archives
A Handbook of Disappointed Fate by Anne Boyer
a great (as in “very good” not “large”) collection of prose from an acclaimed american poet
James Baldwin: Living in Fire by Bill V. Mullen
an interesting – tho intentionally unemotive – biography of Big Jimmy B
notes on a radical pamphlet #4: God’s Hit List edited by Chaz Bufe
…a triumph of the now series continues…
Tripticks by Ann Quin
am i too stoopid to enjoy ann quin? maybe maybe not?
Trust by Hernan Diaz
solid if unoriginal “original literary fiction”
The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings by James Baldwin
2010 collection of [some of?] Baldwin’s uncollected short pieces
American Vampire #1 by Scott Snyder, Rafael Albuquerque & Stephen King
a comic book that’s errr fine i suppose
Protected: No Quiet Water by Shirley Miller Kamada (full review)
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No Quiet Water by Shirley Miller Kamada (summary)
an important topic, at least?
Weird Fucks by Lynne Tillman
great very short book that never gets *that* weird
To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara
we cannot equate hope with idiocy and expect to ever be happy
Black American Psycho by Ernest Baker
solid novel recommended in Only Americans Burn In Hell
Do Every Thing Wrong!: XXXTentacion Against The World by 😇 Jarett Kobek 😇
an extensive discussion re the weighty themes raised by this book
Only Americans Burn In Hell by 🙏 Jarett Kobek 🙏
if you’re not reading Kobek you’re not reading
The Autobiography of Malcolm X with Alex Haley
some thoughts on reading one of the 20th century’s most important books
ATTA by 🙏Jarett Kobek🙏
anti 9/11, anti Richmond, pro Jarett Kobek
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!
The Yellow House by Sarah M Broom
boooorrrrriiiiinnnggg
POETRY MONTH: The Nancy Reagan Collection by Maxe Crandall
i read some poems on the backlot throat goat
POETRY MONTH: Bars Fight by Lucy Terry Prince
potentially significant if unexciting 18th century ballad
Middle Passage by Charles Johnson
middling swashbuckling adventure
Another Country by James Baldwin
another hagiography on Baldwin as scott packs up his north american life
Jarett Kobek & the Zodiac Killer (Motor Spirit & The Hunt for Zodiac)
two new books from Jarett Kobek about CRIME CRIME CRIME
Triumph Of The Now 