TriumphOfTheNow.com – a Manifesto (a Personifesto)
what is Triumph of the Now? It’s scott manley hadley
Tag: depression
Every Time We Say Goodbye by Ivana Sajko
perfect, glorious, flawless. i should only read 100 page bleak novellas
Notes Made While Falling by Jenn Ashworth
some notes on Notes Made While Falling, EXACTLY my kinda book
Notes To John by Joan Didion
a rallying hypocritical cry or is Notes To John an unethical publication in this form only???
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
some thoughts and questions raised by Wharton’s wintry non-wonderland
La Mordida: A Scholarly Edition by Malcolm Lowry, edited and annotated by Patrick A. McCarthy
…a curiosity, a fragment of fragments, a distillation of the mind- and work-wrecking ferocity of addiction…
video announcement: new web series incoming!
omg omg – a new web series is coming soon from scott manley hadley!!!
All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris (True Blood/Sookie Stackhouse Book #7 lol)
do these books make life worth living? no, but it’s closer than basically anything else
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel
notes on a brief bought of heady influenza
My 2023? Some good books and trips but mostly a waste of time!
the best part was when i spent a full day as an unpaid boom mic operator
Journey to the East by Herman Hesse
on travel when depressed: it’s a balm, a binge, a fling, that feels good but fixes nothing
The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami
stream of consciousness response to reading an illustrated short story
World Running Down by Al Hess
reading too much SF cuz im on a psychological downswing that wont end unless/until i change the material conditions of my life which i am trying to do
Fiebre Tropical by Julián Delgado Lopera
was i too old for this one or just too depressed???
Video: Santander (a 40 minute improvised monologue)
40 mins of talk and shots of rainy northern spain
To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara
we cannot equate hope with idiocy and expect to ever be happy
Triumph of the Now is 10! lol whoops
ten years ago i started a blog instead of killing myself
Do Every Thing Wrong!: XXXTentacion Against The World by 😇 Jarett Kobek 😇
an extensive discussion re the weighty themes raised by this book
Embassytown by China Mieville
i suppose this book is excellent?
the discworld graphic novels adapted from Terry Pratchett by Scott Rockwell & illustrated by Steven Ross
terrified i may look like i dont know how to drive
We Do This ‘Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba
hope is a discipline, and I am undisciplined
Variations on the Body by María Ospina
a supposedly transgressive thing i’ll probably do again
2022 REVIEW: FOR ME, IT WAS MIXED
that wasn’t very good for me
My Dead Book by Nate Lippens
breathtaking book on death
The Passengers by Will Ashon
an excellent book
POETRY MONTH: text redacted from 2017 SAFE MODE by Sam Riviere blog post
redacted text from septy ’17
POETRY MONTH: 81 Austerities by Sam Riviere
objectively brilliant, yes, but not not not so good for me?
POETRY MONTH: Waiting Room by Poppy Cockburn
powerful, direct, dignified poems
POETRY MONTH: poetry film premiere
exclusive look at a new poetry film by scott manley hadley!
Fireship/Mother and Child by Joan D. Vinge
a novella as boring as my life rn then a novella that’s good
The Other Wind by Ursula Le Guin
i continue having a terrible time
The Experimentalists by Joe Darlington
the limits + importance of language (cw: suicide ideation)
Middle Passage by Charles Johnson
middling swashbuckling adventure
I Is Another by Jon Fosse (Septology III – V)
an excellent novel (& a guest cat in the pic!!!)
a proper marriage by Doris Lessing (Children of Violence #2)
lessing’s children of violence continues to be excellent unlike my mood
Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
an excellent early 80s hybrid text with a distressing – and violent – context
Wind Pinball (that’s what it says on the spine) by Haruki Murakami
not a great book, not a great time (post from the winter)
The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji
mediocre mystery that solves its mystery in chapter one
Dear Senthuran by Akwaeke Emezi
a very american-feeling memoir about being rich and successful and a literal god?
Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
in early Jan I was quoted in the New Yorker and read a perfect novel
Trauma??? of intent??? or something like that by Anthony Burgess 
not a witty pastiche so much as a dull echo
A Dog’s Ransom by Patricia Highsmith
six weeks late, it’s the TotN CHRISTMAS SPECIAL 2021!
Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
scott visits canada’s “museum of immigration” and gets reflective. Dune Messiah is barely mentioned.
Frederik Pohl
read some terrible books that failed to distract me from anything
Joan Didion: The 1980s & 90s (PART ONE)
re-reading Joan Didion for the first time in my life
Three Books About Books By Bookish Lads
on ian flemming, jackie kerouac, karlo knausgaard
The Complete Orsinia by Ursula K Le Guin
no future until vaccination / please i need future
Three Books, One Post
consistently reading more than i can blog (or do anything else)
Clay’s Ark by Octavia E. Butler
an excellent short genre piece
the heads of cerberus by Francis Stevens
early sci-fi and smh so sad
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