Bloodchild by Octavia E Butler
exceptionally good short story collection
exceptionally good short story collection
Yes, it’s here, the new (new?) Joan Didion, so to celebrate I’m going to give a tiny tiny tiny commentContinue Reading
Richard Wright in Franco’s Spain and other fragments
commencing unemployment and panicking about expertise
a collection of essays
didion didion didion didion didion didion didion
great early[ish] essays from one of america’s best
how limbo can you go?
glorious, wonderful, contemporary non-fiction
phenomenal essay on Mexican corruption
Teju Cole Me By Your Name
a bit of African history and more white opinions on racism #facepalm #alwayspublish
i’m looking tired but feeling great
great essay collection… from america
driving myself crazy / reading books about the motorway
read all about bs johnson – like this blog but in a book
Off the booze (again), I enjoy a book but despair of life.
The life and memories of Walt Whitman, focusing on war and nature.
Morris is a dream-weaving Corbynista, whose acknowledgement of a sad truth mis-sees it as a solvable problem.
David bloody Foster bloody Wallace…
A lot of people don’t read poetry. A lot of people who read a lot of books, don’t read poetry. AContinue Reading
I’m writing this on my phone, stood in the queue at the Apple Store where I’ve gone to replace myContinue Reading
As many of you may have noticed, after the UK recently democratically elected a right-wing government, I shaved off myContinue Reading
David Shields’ The thing about life is that one day you’ll be dead manages to be simultaneously heart-breakingly depressing whilstContinue Reading
As often happens with essay collections (particularly ones read for the writer’s personality rather than his or her topics), WorkingContinue Reading
As I’ve mentioned on here many, many, many, many, many times, Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace* is one of theContinue Reading
Thomas Lynch is an acclaimed American poet. He is also an undertaker. This book is a collection of essays aboutContinue Reading