Only Americans Burn In Hell by 🙏 Jarett Kobek 🙏
if you’re not reading Kobek you’re not reading
if you’re not reading Kobek you’re not reading
If you do not feel or even believe in love, then how and why would you bring others into the nightmare that is existence?
contemporary fiction on the last quarter of the 20th century
an excellent book
a gorgeous book
a pre-release post on a novella about Russian conscripts
an excellent novel (& a guest cat in the pic!!!)
brief comments on a perfect novel
a failure of intent
slow fiction with relentless structure
“the classic coming of age novel… for women”
a big book about mushrooms that are magic (not magic mushrooms)
a hyper-cautious novel about archetypes avoids offence but also characterisation
a week off work begins with a great contemporary novel
an excellent novel; in footnotes my concluding thoughts on the TV series The Affair
digression-free thoughts on a dull novel
can’t stop reading / can’t start doing anything else
but sharks are evil, right?
two and a half months ago i read an incredible novel
truly one of the greatest recent works of fiction
a solid contemporary novel
a truly phenomenal novel but Scotty still depressed
essentially a review of my new meds
very very very good novella from 2016
a solid, if unambitious, novel from a major contemporary voice
i’ve found my local indie press
i read a book wrong / nothing compares 2 Proust
the best novel I’ve read about the internet
great playful (tho violent!) contemporary Nigerian novel
a stupid person’s idea of a clever novel; fun but flimsy
rooney rooney
some more great balkan writing
a fantastic contemporary novella
it’s the most wonderful book of the year
a very good contemporary novel
a little bit of Vitamin D…
death, dying, dead
mainstream literary fiction that I very nearly love
my thoughts on literature and class
part two of a beautiful graphic novel
Colson Whitehead’s intriguing, if imperfect, debut
[sing “I am whaling” to the tune of Rod Stewart’s ‘Sailing’]
phenomenal pop-post-modernist novel straight outta bosnia
three split narratives, one of which confused me…
another ruddy belter from enard who i love
love love love love love… and books
short blog on a goldsmiths short
im blue abadadee abadie