Do Every Thing Wrong!: XXXTentacion Against The World by 😇 Jarett Kobek 😇
an extensive discussion re the weighty themes raised by this book
an extensive discussion re the weighty themes raised by this book
i experience the plot of keep the aspidistra flying while reading and in retrospect for my childhood
an excellent book
posh ominous australian fiction
while we seek relief in schadenfreude over self-esteem, the world will never be fixed
a week off work begins with a great contemporary novel
the lockdown continues and nothing changes
baldwin, baldwin, baldwin
on january 2nd, 2021, i read FIVE arthur miller plays
Written June 15th and actually it was this one, not Things Fall Apart that caused me to pause blogging, forContinue Reading
top prize-winning poetry and emotional toll of lockdown ekes in
further disintegration as i read a play that hasn’t aged well
little review of a strong anthology
great early[ish] essays from one of america’s best
a very very very good big book on WAR
the emotional cost of working in high end catering
you absolute Stein
beautiful grown-up time travel
An un-Lawrentian D.H. Lawrence biography
who is this for?
my thoughts on literature and class
i remember that i don’t like reading about magic
the bottle salves but doesn’t heal
this is impressive, i am depressive
why are poets so obsessed with outside?
a short story chapbook that’s fine, no more, no less
Finally, a book about race that makes me angry at myself
A book that makes big promises without sufficient returns…
Should non-fiction books about intoxicants even be legal, yeah?
I read and discuss a book about dickhead hipster bartenders, just weeks after stopping being one.
Rosamond Lehmann is not a widely-read novelist any more, though in the middle of the 20th-century, she was both popularContinue Reading
Big books. I have an odd relationship with ’em. The idea of big books, to be honest, I have aContinue Reading
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a big, serious novel all about big, serious things. It is intelligent, articulate, humaneContinue Reading
Margaret Drabble is not a novelist I’ve read before. To be honest, I’m mainly aware of her for being withinContinue Reading
About a year ago I read and quite enjoyed Teju Cole’s Open City. It was a set text for myContinue Reading
Ali Smith’s latest novel – How to be both – has been shortlisted for this year’s Man Booker PrizeContinue Reading
I’m writing this in the beautiful Spanish Pyrenees, having spent a day doing little more than reading Proust and lookingContinue Reading
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas is an engaging and somewhat strange book. It is, actually, the autobiography of GertrudeContinue Reading
Last Saturday I did something utterly unprecedented and attended a professional football match. It feels like it happened ages ago,Continue Reading
I stumbled, heady on free cheese and Spanish lager, into a temporary toilet cubicle at the Hay-on-Wye literary festival, lockedContinue Reading
‘Which way?’ ‘Wherever, man. Just somewhere without CCTV, you know? My ket dealer got fuckin’ three years ‘cause some factoryContinue Reading
“Who are you?” makes sense. But is “rude”. “What are you?” is reductive. But “rude”. “What do you do?” isContinue Reading