who we’re reading when we’re reading murakami by David Karashima
an excellent book about books
Tag: biography
My Word Is My Bond by Roger Moore (with Gareth Owen)
a pointless read, wasting time
The Silent Woman by Janet Malcolm
stunning essay on the ethics and impossibilities of biography
The Priest of Love by Harry T. Moore
An un-Lawrentian D.H. Lawrence biography
Every Love Story Is A Ghost Story by D. T. Max
David Foster Wallace was a prick.
Everybody Behaves Badly by Lesley M. M. Blume
Can I love Hemingway’s writing but hate Hemingway?
White Girls by Hilton Als
Off the booze (again), I enjoy a book but despair of life.
Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
Max Porter Works In Publishing
on the beach from fat man on a beach
Visiting the Llyn Peninsula in North Wales.
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
Pursued by Furies: A Life of Malcolm Lowry by George Bowker
I took a week to read this harrowing, depressing, heart-wrenchingly awful* biography of one of the most troubled, confused andContinue Reading
Bad Blood by Lorna Sage
This is a set text for my MA twice over, so this has been touted as a book that isContinue Reading
Autobiography by Morrissey
It is a key belief of my that it is important to, occasionally, read bad books. Otherwise, how is oneContinue Reading
Like a Fiery Elephant by Jonathan Coe
I first read B. S. Johnson years after first learning of him. His (somewhat infamous) “book in a box”, The Unfortunates,Continue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 