Notes To John by Joan Didion
a rallying hypocritical cry or is Notes To John an unethical publication in this form only???
Tag: essay
Plainwater by Anne Carson
you can read this map by the light of a thunderstorm: Carson on Camino
because earth is flat: a flat earth poetry collection – scott manley hadley: live at paradise (new web series episode)
the earth is flat; if it wasn’t, why would there be a whole book of poetry presuming it was???
my father, from a distance – scott manley hadley: live at paradise (new web series episode)
Filmed at the tail end of the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto’s historic Paradise Theatre on Bloor St W, the poet,Continue Reading
god made my face edited by Hilton Als
a book of essays about James Baldwin; a treat for anyone with a soul
I Will Write To Avenge My People by Annie Ernaux (The Nobel Lecture)
a tiny book containing Ernaux’s Nobel address and some bumpf
Prisons We Choose To Live Inside by Doris Lessing
writing on the dangers of group mentalities, though pretty committed to one particular viewing of the world…
The Good Die Young: The Verdict on Henry Kissinger, edited by Rene Rojas, Bhaskar Sunkara and Jonah Walters
now that’s what i call henry kissenger
Conditional Tense by Antjie Krog
a serious South African book about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Adorable by Ida Marie Hede
reflections-on-a-serious-book-as-i-begin-my-journey-to-the-west
Spontaneous Particulars: The Telepathy of Archives by Susan Howe
interesting intellectualised essay on the beauty of physical literary archives
A Handbook of Disappointed Fate by Anne Boyer
a great (as in “very good” not “large”) collection of prose from an acclaimed american poet
These Bones Will Rise Again by Panashe Chigumadzi
notes on a political essay (slightly too big for a radical pamphlet)
A Small Personal Voice by Doris Lessing (ed. Paul Schlueter)
some beautiful, thematically varied, writings
Can the monster speak? by Paul B. Preciado
arguments to make the world better in language that can only make it worse
Do Every Thing Wrong!: XXXTentacion Against The World by 😇 Jarett Kobek 😇
an extensive discussion re the weighty themes raised by this book
small white monkeys by Sophie Collins
serious, excellent, short book on trauma
Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux
speculative short essay that proposes the historic existence of shame-free desire
The Government of No One by Ruth Kinna
anarchism is hope
Pissing Figures 1280–2014 by Jean-Claude Lebensztejn
mostly fun book on peeing in art with a very off-colour digression
Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire by Max Haiven
palm oil as microcosm of the mess that is capitalism
The Experimentalists by Joe Darlington
the limits + importance of language (cw: suicide ideation)
On Anarchism by Noam Chomsky
more anarchism on the blog thank you for reading
The End: Surviving the World Through Imagined Disasters by Katie Goh
great essay on the end of the world in film & lit
Around the World in Seventy-Two Days and Other Writings by Nellie Bly
scott reads a collection of writing from a trailblazing lady gonzo journalist!
James Baldwin: Collected Essays (Library of America, 1998)
james baldwin is great; vaccines are also great
Rhinoceros by Luke Thompson
small post on a great non-fiction text
Joan Didion: The 1980s & 90s (PART THREE)
i cannot read myself happy
50 Words on Each of the Essays in Joan Didion’s Let Me Tell You What I Mean
Yes, it’s here, the new (new?) Joan Didion, so to celebrate I’m going to give a tiny tiny tiny commentContinue Reading
who we’re reading when we’re reading murakami by David Karashima
an excellent book about books
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
well, it’s a “classic” and now i’ve read it
New Model Island by Alex Niven
england is dead and it owes u no living
Sharks, Death, Surfers by Melissa McCarthy
lovely object with an essay on more than three things
Lost Time by Józef Czapski
a touch of proust
This Little Art by Kate Briggs
a wonderful, unpretentious, essay on translation
Queen Mob’s Teahouse: Teh Book edited by Russell Bennetts
some inevitably biased hagiography
The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm
an excellent essay on ethics
Limbo by Dan Fox
how limbo can you go?
Mixed-Race Superman by Will Harris
glorious, wonderful, contemporary non-fiction
So Far From God by Veronica Gonzalez Peña
phenomenal essay on Mexican corruption
Known and Strange Things by Teju Cole
Teju Cole Me By Your Name
Africa’s Tarnished Name by Chinua Achebe
a bit of African history and more white opinions on racism #facepalm #alwayspublish
Hold Tight by Jeffrey Boakye
i’m looking tired but feeling great
Notes From No Man’s Land by Eula Biss
great essay collection… from america
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West
Wonderful, massive, beautiful, biased.
In the Company of Ghosts: The Poetics of the Motorway edited by Alan Corkish
driving myself crazy / reading books about the motorway
Nicotine by Gregor Hens
If Gregor Hens can give up smoking, I can give up booze.
in print alert / in paper print / paper print alert / in paper alert
read all about bs johnson – like this blog but in a book
White Girls by Hilton Als
Off the booze (again), I enjoy a book but despair of life.
Trump & Me by Mark Singer
Trump cannot and will not be ignored.
Triumph Of The Now 