Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
an excellent early 80s hybrid text with a distressing – and violent – context
Tag: creative non-fiction
Thriftwood: A Personal History of Scouting by Alice Wickenden
great memoir about youth and scouting
Jarett Kobek & the Zodiac Killer (Motor Spirit & The Hunt for Zodiac)
two new books from Jarett Kobek about CRIME CRIME CRIME
James Baldwin: Collected Essays (Library of America, 1998)
james baldwin is great; vaccines are also great
Four Repeater Books (two I recommend)
two excellent books, two not excellent books
Blue Nights by Joan Didion
very little on the book, lots of rage at the slow quietening of June’s global protest movement
Boys in Zinc by Svetlana Alexievich
fell orf my bike boohoo
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West
Wonderful, massive, beautiful, biased.
One of Us by Åsne Seierstad
A beautiful book about a horrible thing.
Triumph Of The Now 