The Eye of the Heron and Other Stories by Ursula K Le Guin and Others (aka Millennial Women, edited by Virginia Kidd)
a 1978 collection of engaging and intriguing SF by boomer women incorrectly called Millennial Women
Tag: America
A History of the African-American People (Proposed) by Strom Thurmond: as told to Percival Everett & James Kincaid by Percival Everett and James Kincaid
a cracking old school epistolary novel about racism and the publishing industry from Percival Everett and a friend
THE BIG BALD BOOK CLUB EPISODE THREE – Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
see androids fighting brad and janet
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
re-reading another serious and accessible classic and regretting nothing at all
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
a tiny book with a big fish
Frank Sinatra Has A Cold by Gay Talese
excellent CNF collection spanning several decades and several lives…
Dhalgren by Samuel R.Delany
800 brilliant unresolved pages that work work work
Advanced Elvis Course by CAConrad
…erotic devotionals, and an argument for – and evidence of – the eternal importance of Elvis…
The Malingerer by Theophilus Garcia
a short, engaging novel that has something to say, though I’m not 100% sure what it is
The Essential Lenny Bruce: His Original Unexpurgated Satirical Routines, edited by John Cohen
reading some work of an important early comedian
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
Triumph Of The Now 