Another Country by James Baldwin
another hagiography on Baldwin as scott packs up his north american life
Tag: American literature
James Baldwin: Collected Essays (Library of America, 1998)
james baldwin is great; vaccines are also great
Clotel or, the President’s Daughter by William Wells Brown
excellent, significant, 19th century anti-slavery novel
Joan Didion: The 1980s & 90s (PART THREE)
i cannot read myself happy
Joan Didion: The 1980s & 90s (PART TWO)
if u see a dead racoon at the side of the road
The Seep by Chana Porter
very gen x “internet is bad” vibes
Sharks In The Time of Saviors [sic] by Kawai Strong Washburn
but sharks are evil, right?
After the Fall by Arthur Miller
thoughts on avoiding the canon
Jazz by Toni Morrison
redressing a gap in my reading
Cygnet by Season Butler
a solid contemporary novel
Most of my Heroes Don’t Appear On No Stamps by Ran Walker
brief comments on a collection of kwansabas
It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
powerful, tho rushed, 1930s novel about fascism in the USA
Always Coming Home by Ursula Le Guin
impressive experimental speculative fiction
Blues For Mister Charlie by James Baldwin
a sad play from JB the master
And The Band Played On by Randy Shilts
an essential non-fiction read and a new documentary on its legacy
Selected Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
mediocre prose and a child bride: time to cancel Poe
The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
Colson Whitehead’s intriguing, if imperfect, debut
Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
ideologically, i’d love to tear this apart, but i cannot…
Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin
there ain’t no fool like a holy fool
Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black by Cookie Mueller
some really gorgeous prose
There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé by Morgan Parker
v good poems tho a v poor blog post
An American Dream by Norman Mailer
fun frothy men’s fiction
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
Gorgeous, sensuous, unforgettable
Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson
Finally, a book about race that makes me angry at myself
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
[insert Nabokov/nobokov joke or something?]
Trump & Me by Mark Singer
Trump cannot and will not be ignored.
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
Radar Road: The Best of On Impulse by Nath Jones
A short story collection, and my first experience of an eBook.
Specimen Days by Walt Whitman
The life and memories of Walt Whitman, focusing on war and nature.
Consider the Lobster And Other Essays by David Foster Wallace
David bloody Foster bloody Wallace…
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
In America alone, 281 pounds of pig shit is produced for every one person per year. I don’t know if that’s a lot as I don’t know what a pound is.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
fuck So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. fuck fuck fuck fuck fuckContinue Reading
Purity by Jonathan Franzen
I read every other novel by Jonathan Franzen during a period of about 18 months after really, really enjoying FreedomContinue Reading
Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy
The first Cormac McCarthy novel I read was 2006’s The Road, and it is by far and away his best.Continue Reading
Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon
Sometimes I read novels where I can’t really see why they were written. Novels that say very little to meContinue Reading
I Don’t Need You Any More by Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller’s 1967 collection of stories, I Don’t Need You Any More, contains one of the finest pieces of short fictionContinue Reading
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas is an engaging and somewhat strange book. It is, actually, the autobiography of GertrudeContinue Reading
Girl With Curious Hair by David Foster Wallace
Having managed to twist two of the last three reviews I posted on here into David Foster Wallace hagiographies, IContinue Reading
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
I really really liked this. That’s what I’m going to open with, because everything of any wit or interest IContinue 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
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Wow. Fuck a diddle wank, David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest (1996) is a full blown literary compendium of joy. Deeply philosophical,Continue Reading
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
I’m a sentimental, emotional, man. I’m sensitive. I feel. I feel big. And Jonathan Safran Foer’s 2005 Extremely Loud & IncrediblyContinue Reading
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
I’m going to be utterly uncharacteristic and not write a glowing review of a book. I found Rabbit, Run a bitContinue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 