The Angry Brigade by Alan Burns
unexpectedly, one of the best books i’ve ever read
Tag: creative non-fiction
On Lighthouses by Jazmina Barrera
some notes on a book of notes about lighthouses
Thread Ripper by Amalie Smith
a gorgeous book
Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
an excellent early 80s hybrid text with a distressing – and violent – context
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 