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
Yes, it’s here, the new (new?) Joan Didion, so to celebrate I’m going to give a tiny tiny tiny commentContinue Reading
great literary biography but not AS GREAT as other malcolm i’ve read
you absolute Stein
when did a white man last write a GREAT novel?
another racist travel book
ideologically, i’d love to tear this apart, but i cannot…
Can I love Hemingway’s writing but hate Hemingway?
An important new novel about sexual assault. Long post.
Norman Mailer writes energetically and racistly about boxing
pleasure is a lightening bolt that leaves no trace
Open Pen is a free literary magazine that publishes new writing. It is distributed in various bookshops both within (andContinue Reading
I’m an abyss filling up with regret and alcohol at equal measure, like a really wet martini.
Jean-Paul Sartre is another one of those hip, nihilistic-type novelists than whiney, depressive young men read in-between bouts of binge-drinkingContinue Reading
My pile of books, towering as it often is in January, needs to be got through. So in order toContinue Reading
This is a book I’ve read a lot about. It is referred to repeatedly in both Ben Yagoda’s Memoir: AContinue Reading
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas is an engaging and somewhat strange book. It is, actually, the autobiography of GertrudeContinue Reading
Ernest Hemingway was one of the first writers I ever truly loved. When I was an undergraduate, many years ago,Continue Reading
David Shields’ Reality Hunger is a non-fiction book about the fictional and the unreal being dead to contemporary creativity. ItContinue Reading
I had been intending to read George Orwell’s Homage To Catalonia ever since I encountered Down And Out In Paris And London,Continue Reading
I thoroughly enjoyed The Bell Jar. And I realise “enjoyed” might not sound like the appropriate word… I loved Plath’sContinue Reading