Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala
fiction about child soldiers that felt a little underdone
Tag: drinking
Three Books, One Post
consistently reading more than i can blog (or do anything else)
Drunken Baker by Barney Farmer
the bottle salves but doesn’t heal
Notes on ‘Camp’ by Susan Sontag
my past changes shape as my future brightens
Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl
Fantastic Mr Fox is an ode to adventure capitalism. My life is an ode to wine.
The Trip to Echo Spring by Olivia Laing
I’m an abyss filling up with regret and alcohol at equal measure, like a really wet martini.
Shaking Hands with Death by Terry Pratchett
When I was young it was normal practice for supermarkets to fill the spaces around the tills – where peopleContinue Reading
The Lost Weekend by Charles Jackson
Malcolm Lowry, secret hero of these blog posts, fell into a deep depression after the publication of Charles Jackson’s TheContinue Reading
Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway was one of the first writers I ever truly loved. When I was an undergraduate, many years ago,Continue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 