Babel by Alan Burns
a middle class british heterosexual Howl
Tag: Fiction
micropost – Plastic Emotions by Shiromi Pinto
brief comments on a perfect novel
The Boys from Brazil by Ira Levin
pacy thriller; terrible bookstore; hot summer heat
some old fiction of mine, recently published
Originally posted on Horror Sleaze Trash:
Rasputin in the Disco Rasputin feels the madeira flow through his veins and the sweetness and…
Another Country by James Baldwin
another hagiography on Baldwin as scott packs up his north american life
Ambergris by Jeff VanderMeer
a big book about mushrooms that are magic (not magic mushrooms)
Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala
fiction about child soldiers that felt a little underdone
Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri
a bleak, beautiful, japanese novel[la]
The End of Obscenity by Charles Rembar
interesting book of the legal history of removing literary censorship
Joan Didion: The 1980s & 90s (PART TWO)
if u see a dead racoon at the side of the road
Four Short(ish) Novels from 2020
can’t stop reading / can’t start doing anything else
James Baldwin Threeway
baldwin, baldwin, baldwin
Cygnet by Season Butler
a solid contemporary novel
The Triple Echo by H. E. Bates
a surprisingly great short novel that might be hateful
The Man Within by Graham Greene
greene’s messy horny debut
Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
excellent mid-life crisis novel
The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin
reading about dragons again lol
The Long Take by Robin Robertson
some notes on a gorgeous novel
Insane by Rainald Goetz
an intense, disconcerting, spectacular novel
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
mainstream literary fiction that is actually worth reading
That Lonesome Valley by Melissa Lee-Houghton
some thoughts on a novel you should probably read
Normal People by Sally Rooney
rooney rooney
Queen Mob’s Teahouse: Teh Book edited by Russell Bennetts
some inevitably biased hagiography
How The Dead Dream by Lydia Millet
i whinge about unexpected canadian expenses and read a solid novel
Silas Marner by George Eliot
a lovely fucking novel
The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
impressive, emotive, historical
A Wizard Of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin
i found a book in the street
A Terrible Country by Keith Gessen
a very good contemporary novel
From The Fatherland, With Love by Ryu Murakami
a big novel that’s surprisingly worthwhile
I Love Dick by Chris Kraus
a little bit of Vitamin D…
Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin
there ain’t no fool like a holy fool
The Automaton by David Wheldon
i remember that i don’t like reading about magic
Against Nature (A Rebours) by Joris-Karl Huysmans
infamous for the wrong reasons…
Arkady by Patrick Langley
hipster dystopia / hipstopia / better than that sounds
Takeaway by Tommy Hazard
the London Ambulance service gets the Morbid Books treatment
Compass by Mathias Enard
A beautiful novel for an ugly world.
#TotNTV: Translating the Balkans
Three writers and a publisher discuss work in translation
Safe Mode by Sam Riviere
familiarity breeds affection
Dark Chapter by Winnie M Li
An important new novel about sexual assault. Long post.
Triumph of the Now TV
home of the lo-fi magazine web series
Open City by Teju Cole
transcript of a presentation from happier days
“Herod’s Filthy Bathtime” from The Body and the Baptist
Once upon a time, I was trying to be a writer…
Blitzed by Norman Ohler
Hipster military history: if you’re not cool, this isn’t for you…
Zone by Mathias Enard
pleasure is a lightening bolt that leaves no trace
Vampire in Love by Enrique Vila-Matas
Experimental late 20th century short fiction.
From Russia With Love by Ian Fleming
This is my first blog post in a while, and even then it’s still happening a little earlier than expected.Continue Reading
Molloy by Samuel Beckett
I’m going to be honest, I did not get what the point of Molloy was. Oooh, it was Beckettian; itContinue Reading
Life, End of by Christine Brooke-Rose
Well, this is a rather painfully depressing read. Life, End of was Christine Brooke-Rose’s final novel, one written in herContinue Reading
I Don’t Need You Any More by Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller’s 1967 collection of stories, I Don’t Need You Any More, contains one of the finest pieces of short fictionContinue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 