I Am, I Am, I Am by Maggie O’Farrell
near death experiences in a bad blog post
Tag: autobiography
Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson
Finally, a book about race that makes me angry at myself
White Girls by Hilton Als
Off the booze (again), I enjoy a book but despair of life.
The Last Holiday: A Memoir by Gil Scott-Heron
The ‘Godfather of Rap’ offers a rose-tinted memoir.
Midland: A Novel Out of Time by Honor Gavin
midlands novel and a road trip into childhood
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
October Ferry To Gabriola by Malcolm Lowry
As I continue to read through the (surprisingly) ever-expanding oeuvre of the alcoholic, depressive, late-Modernist writer, Malcolm Lowry, I amContinue Reading
Endgame by Samuel Beckett
Like most pretentious teenagers who go on to study English Literature as an undergraduate then sink into an unhappy morassContinue Reading
Lonesome Traveler by Jack Kerouac
Last Summer, whilst twatpacking* around the Mediterranean, Tunisair lost my backpack between Casablanca and Tunis. Though it contained nothing ofContinue 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
