Guyana by Élise Turcotte
a powerful quebecois novel about grief
Tag: death
Apocalypse by DH Lawrence
my domestic holiday begins with unexpected news; Lawrence eviscerates Xianity
Fathoms: The Whale in the World by Rebecca Giggs
on ethics and our species’ lack of them
Thrillers #1 (Hilton, Keene, Hillerman, Friedman)
still in a genre rut i can’t escape
Seven Fallen Feathers by Tanya Talaga
powerful stuff on racism, colonialism and botched governmental attempts to move on
Blue Nights by Joan Didion
very little on the book, lots of rage at the slow quietening of June’s global protest movement
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
reading the best of books in the worst of times
Decreation by Anne Carson
was almost sectioned today; read a book that was difficult but perfect
The Final Voicemails by Max Ritvo
poetry by a then dying, now dead, young poet
New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Boxset (SITA), ed. Kwame Dawes & Chris Abani
a boxset of ten powerful chapbooks
Sharks, Death, Surfers by Melissa McCarthy
lovely object with an essay on more than three things
The Poems of Dylan Thomas
welsh poetry, often wonderful, sometimes dry
Eulogy for Josephine Bunyan
the eulogy I read at my grandmother’s funeral in 2014
Subsequent Death by Aaron Kent
who wouldn’t beg for a little more life?
Every Fox Is A Rabid Fox by Harry Gallon
death, dying, dead
I Am, I Am, I Am by Maggie O’Farrell
near death experiences in a bad blog post
Old Filth by Jane Gardam
my thoughts on literature and class
Birthday Post: 30 Things I’ve Done, 30 Things I Haven’t
it’s my 30th birthday
Selected Poems by Federico García Lorca
why I owned but didn’t read this book for five years (anger, depression)
Philosophical Toys by Susana Medina
sad man scotty writes about being sad
Eulogy for Philip Hadley
the speech i read at my grandfather’s funeral
Compass by Mathias Enard
A beautiful novel for an ugly world.
Such Small Hands by Andrés Barba
Digression-free review of some new literary fiction
White Girls by Hilton Als
Off the booze (again), I enjoy a book but despair of life.
Triumph Of The Now 