2026 hopes/dreams/plans
looking ahead (and that’s fine to do one week in)
Tag: life
2025 in the Rear View
accidentally had a successful year (by my own metrics, which are probably not yours)
COAL by Remi Graves
an excellent and significant chapbook of “poems and experiments”
Notes Made While Falling by Jenn Ashworth
some notes on Notes Made While Falling, EXACTLY my kinda book
TEN WORDS OR FEWER INTERVIEW: Feyisayo Anjorin, author of The Hypocrite Series
a conversation with Steve McLean, author of Stealing Deep Purple
TEN WORDS OR FEWER INTERVIEW: Harry Legge, author of Friend or Suspect
a conversation with Harry Legge, author of Friend or Suspect
Playing for Time by Arthur Miller
some life updates, some political commentary and a reflection on an unsubtle Arthur Miller play…
TEN WORDS OR FEWER INTERVIEW: Barbara Adair, author of In the Shadow of the Springs I Saw
a conversation with Barbara Adair, author of In the Shadow of the Springs I Saw
A Phone of the Artist as a Young Man by Pierce Day – PART ONE OF FOUR
I WOULD HAVE SOLD MY DIRTY SOUL TO WRITE THIS BOOK: a four-post special series begins
10 Year Hair Free “Celebration”: SOLID BALD video playlist link
10 years hair free… and still making a song (not a dance) about it
Provincial Squinting At The Mercury Orgy by Jai Knight
an intriguing prose and poetry collection that is deceptively simple or simply deceptive
Reverse Cowgirl by McKenzie Wark
a spectacular sex memoir (the memoir is spectacular (and maybe the sex was too))
Love You Forever by Robert Munsch & Sheila McGraw
i read a devastatingly beautiful book for children
The Middlemen: A Satire by Christine Brooke-Rose
pointed gags from the 1960s about things that haven’t changed
2025 Resolutions? That’s too many resolutions, I have 10
some resolutions for the future and further reflection on the past
2024? A fine year!
it was a fine year, yes it was [in my personal life]
Abolish the Family by Sophie Lewis
accidentally, i am almost a revolutionary
The Motion Of Light In Water by Samuel R Delany
i thoroughly enjoyed this 1980s memoir about the halycon days of cruising (and sci-fi)
Dead Ever After by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse #13 (of 13))
thoughts on one last trip to bon temps and smh ponders last vs first impressions
Future by Tom Woodman, Rupert Smissen & Aditya Bidikar
can there be hope in a future where basically everything’s dead?
Still Pictures: On Photography & Memory by Janet Malcolm
Janet Malcolm did it again one last time
since my last birthday I witnessed a birth
this year I’ve started doing things that I don’t regret
‘a timeline’ and ‘borderline personality disorder’ from the pleasure of regret – scott manley hadley: live at paradise (new web series episode)
more from my 2022-shot web series, this time on diagnoses and the passage of time
Babel by R. F. Kuang
a cracking idea, a knife-edge epilogue but too much brilliance and not enough sex
Rescue Me: On Dogs and Their Humans by Margret Grebowicz
we have lived with dogs for longer than we’ve lived with agriculture; we are arguably not people without them…
Talking At The Gates: A Life of James Baldwin by James Campbell
a solid and non hagiographic literary biography
My 2024 Resolution? Revolution!
chasing enough optimism to change the things i can surely change
My 2023? Some good books and trips but mostly a waste of time!
the best part was when i spent a full day as an unpaid boom mic operator
Artemisia by Anna Banti
i struggle with a post over several busy days
Joan Didion: The Last Interview
oh yes i didion’t
Pleasure Beach by Helen Palmer
if u love literature like i do you’ll love this
Another Birthday Rolls Around in the Dirt
i am older than christ and i understand why he consented to be crucified
notes on a radical pamphlet #3: From Animals To Anarchism by Kevin Watkinson & Donal O’Driscoll
notes on a radical pamphlet is an occasional series
POETRY MONTH: Waiting Room by Poppy Cockburn
powerful, direct, dignified poems
Sula by Toni Morrison
a beautiful novel about the emptiness at the heart of life
Fathoms: The Whale in the World by Rebecca Giggs
on ethics and our species’ lack of them
WAR #1: Pat Barker’s Regeneration Trilogy
read some great fiction for the first time in a while; still bored bored bored tho boohoo
Frederik Pohl
read some terrible books that failed to distract me from anything
Poetics of Work by Noemi Lefebvre
rare writing depicting middle class rootlessness not as tragedy
The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman
forget the infamously sleazy page-and-a-half and enjoy!
Subsequent Death by Aaron Kent
who wouldn’t beg for a little more life?
Birthday Post: 30 Things I’ve Done, 30 Things I Haven’t
it’s my 30th birthday
Scott Manley Hadley ON THE BBC
talking about my bald head and my sufficient pubes to camera
The Unmapped Country: Stories & Fragments by Ann Quin
Find out what Scott Manley Hadley has been reading and doing
#TotNTV: Writing From Life
What does it mean to turn life into art?
Extravagant Stranger: A Memoir by Daniel Roy Connelly
A book that describes itself as “Ian Fleming meets Rimbaud”
Happy Ending NOT Guaranteed by Liam Hogan
My latest review over at Open Pen discusses the point of fiction…
The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer
If Greer – who doesn’t believe in non-binary genders – is correct, then I am a woman.
Triumph Of The Now 