The Experimentalists by Joe Darlington
the limits + importance of language (cw: suicide ideation)
the limits + importance of language (cw: suicide ideation)
i crit lit + this lit’s lit crit; MANNSLAUGHTER???
an excellent book about books
great literary biography but not AS GREAT as other malcolm i’ve read
stunning essay on the ethics and impossibilities of biography
An un-Lawrentian D.H. Lawrence biography
David Foster Wallace was a prick.
Can I love Hemingway’s writing but hate Hemingway?
David bloody Foster bloody Wallace…
Visiting the Llyn Peninsula in North Wales.
I’m an abyss filling up with regret and alcohol at equal measure, like a really wet martini.
There’s something both lower-case romantic and sweetly anachronistic about a husband-wife literary collaboration. What makes this one, Dotter of herContinue Reading
Psalms and Songs is an odd book, a collection of short stories by Malcolm Lowry (some previously published, others unfinished),Continue Reading
I took a week to read this harrowing, depressing, heart-wrenchingly awful* biography of one of the most troubled, confused andContinue Reading
I first read B. S. Johnson years after first learning of him. His (somewhat infamous) “book in a box”, The Unfortunates,Continue Reading