The Experimentalists by Joe Darlington
the limits + importance of language (cw: suicide ideation)
Tag: literary biography
Bluebeard’s Chamber by Michael Maar
i crit lit + this lit’s lit crit; MANNSLAUGHTER???
who we’re reading when we’re reading murakami by David Karashima
an excellent book about books
Two Lives by Janet Malcolm
great literary biography but not AS GREAT as other malcolm i’ve read
The Silent Woman by Janet Malcolm
stunning essay on the ethics and impossibilities of biography
The Priest of Love by Harry T. Moore
An un-Lawrentian D.H. Lawrence biography
Every Love Story Is A Ghost Story by D. T. Max
David Foster Wallace was a prick.
Everybody Behaves Badly by Lesley M. M. Blume
Can I love Hemingway’s writing but hate Hemingway?
Consider the Lobster And Other Essays by David Foster Wallace
David bloody Foster bloody Wallace…
on the beach from fat man on a beach
Visiting the Llyn Peninsula in North Wales.
The Trip to Echo Spring by Olivia Laing
I’m an abyss filling up with regret and alcohol at equal measure, like a really wet martini.
Dotter of her Father’s Eyes by Mary M Talbot and Bryan Talbot
There’s something both lower-case romantic and sweetly anachronistic about a husband-wife literary collaboration. What makes this one, Dotter of herContinue Reading
Malcolm Lowry: Psalms and Songs (edited by Margerie Lowry
Psalms and Songs is an odd book, a collection of short stories by Malcolm Lowry (some previously published, others unfinished),Continue Reading
Pursued by Furies: A Life of Malcolm Lowry by George Bowker
I took a week to read this harrowing, depressing, heart-wrenchingly awful* biography of one of the most troubled, confused andContinue Reading
Like a Fiery Elephant by Jonathan Coe
I first read B. S. Johnson years after first learning of him. His (somewhat infamous) “book in a box”, The Unfortunates,Continue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 