SONG: ‘Handsome Mr Dog (Your Name Is)’
Recorded mid-January, SOLID BALD presents a hot synth pop rock tune yet again about their favourite dog!
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Joan Didion: The 1980s & 90s (PART TWO)
if u see a dead racoon at the side of the road
The Seep by Chana Porter
very gen x “internet is bad” vibes
South and West by Joan Didion
3 lines on joan didion and 1000 words on my terrible mental health lol
In the House of My Father by Hiwot Adilow
another kooky blog post
Bad Boy Poet by Scott Manley Hadley
Review by L. Tumbleweed Parker. CW: ableist language
VIDEO: Scott & Cubby in Silence
blogger & dogger
The Unmapped Country: Stories & Fragments by Ann Quin
Find out what Scott Manley Hadley has been reading and doing
Birthday Literary Suicide Tour
So I walk on towards deaths (plural) in the cooling twilight
#Breakdown: What happened to the blogging?
I have mental health problems
Cubby’s Adventures in Petlandia by Steve Cleverley & Katja Hammond
Read about my problematic relationship… with my dog.
Tres by Roberto Bolaño
A glimmer of hope: I am almost able to read in Spanish.
On translation and Quiet Flows the Una by Faruk Šehić
Gorgeous Bosnian novel and my thoughts on the role of translators
On Dressing Down & The Tragedy of Fidel Castro
A book that makes big promises without sufficient returns…
Zone by Mathias Enard
pleasure is a lightening bolt that leaves no trace
more online male-centric feminism
More writing from that weird character I do at Huffington Post.
D. H. Lawrence and Italy
I review a Lawrentian travel writing collection containing Twilight in Italy, Sea and Sardinia and Sketches of Etruscan Places.
Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume
I don’t know where this book came from. I know I bought it, I’m pretty certain I went out ofContinue Reading
From Russia With Love by Ian Fleming
This is my first blog post in a while, and even then it’s still happening a little earlier than expected.Continue Reading
on the beach from fat man on a beach
Visiting the Llyn Peninsula in North Wales.
The Ongoing Moment: A Book About Photographs by Geoff Dyer
Well, as some of you may be aware, I’m off having adventures. Yes, again. After an 18 month stint inContinue Reading
Wytches by Scott Snyder and Jock
I haven’t read a comic book in a while, and after taking almost three weeks to read my last book, IContinue Reading
The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante
When I read the first volume of Elena Ferrante’s lauded Neapolitan Novels series, many of the conversations being had about itContinue Reading
The Open Pen Anthology (edited by Sean Preston)
Open Pen is a free literary magazine that publishes new writing. It is distributed in various bookshops both within (andContinue Reading
Yesenin: The Selected by Sergei Yesenin
Recently, I’ve been trying to cut down the massive piles of unread books in my house. By reading them, notContinue Reading
A Cup of Rage by Raduan Nassar
A Cup of Rage is a Brazilian novella by Raduan Nassar first published in 1978 as Um Copo de Cólera. InContinue Reading
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept by Elizabeth Smart
I’m not at work, so I should be writing real prose, doing something creative, emailing pitches for articles through toContinue Reading
Jo the Witch Vet by Joanne Sadler
OK, so maybe I’m not the target demographic, but Jo the Witch Vet by Joanne Sadler is one of theContinue Reading
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
Many people have told me that The Waves is Virginia Woolf’s best work. Many people have told me I should readContinue Reading
You Could Do Something Amazing With Your Life [You Are Raoul Moat] by Andrew Hankinson
My new puppy hasn’t been very well. I’ve spent the day taking him to the vets and watching him sleep,Continue Reading
What is Art? by Leo Tolstoy
The intellectual and emotional vigour with which I’ve approached What is Art? by Leo Tolstoy has left me bawling in the street,Continue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 