How To Talk Dirty and Influence People: An Autobiography by Lenny Bruce
an interesting, funny, sad memoir that leaves a lot of gaps…
Tag: blog
2025 in the Rear View
accidentally had a successful year (by my own metrics, which are probably not yours)
TriumphOfTheNow.com – a Manifesto (a Personifesto)
what is Triumph of the Now? It’s scott manley hadley
Camp Concentration by Thomas M. Disch
what if we could all be geniuses… for a few months as we die of germ warfare???
IMPERSONAL INTERVIEWS: Keith Woodhouse, author of Selected Works
Meet Keith Woodhouse: artist, poet and author of Selected Works.
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
very enjoyable time travel thriller-romance combo
The Worlds of Jane Austen by Helena Kelly
a lovely popular history coffee table book bouncing around the life of Jane Austen
july/aug/sept movie watching round up
what I was watching in July, August, September 2025
The Wild Body by Wyndham Lewis
so you’ve got a great name???
june movie round up
what I was watching in May 2025
may movie round up
what I was watching in May 2025
After Dead by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood #15 (of 13))
probably the greatest book of flash fiction ever published
God Help The Child by Toni Morrison
sadness, cruelty, oppression, magical realism, and a writer in their mid-80s putting out possibly the best depiction of the millennial experience to date
Nova by Samuel R. Delany
a fine novel that didn’t blow my mind like samuel delany usually do
A Phone of the Artist as a Young Man by Pierce Day – PART FOUR OF FOUR
am i bitter? am i jealous? am i over the hill??? – a four part review concludes
A Phone of the Artist as a Young Man by Pierce Day – PART THREE OF FOUR
closer to the text, the faults fall away – a four part review continues
A Phone of the Artist as a Young Man by Pierce Day – PART ONE OF FOUR
I WOULD HAVE SOLD MY DIRTY SOUL TO WRITE THIS BOOK: a four-post special series begins
april movie round up
what I was watching in April 2025
Provincial Squinting At The Mercury Orgy by Jai Knight
an intriguing prose and poetry collection that is deceptively simple or simply deceptive
A Man & Two Women by Doris Lessing
i read a brilliant, flawless, collection of stories
The Bureau of Past Management by Iris Hanika
on blogging, on genocide, on the dangers of forgiveness
Writin’ Dirty: An Anthology by Byron Crawford
this is a blog post on a book of blog posts
Triumph of the Now is 10! lol whoops
ten years ago i started a blog instead of killing myself
Through your blood by Toby Campion
i went to a poetry open mic night
Baldies vs. Real Men
Bald men: Another Victim of the Patriarchy
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
This is the 300th book review I have posted on this blog*, and it seems appropriate that its focus is aContinue Reading
Byron Easy by Jude Cook
Byron Easy by Jude Cook is the least enjoyable book I’ve read in ages, and the first one I haveContinue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 