The Four Gated City by Doris Lessing (Children of Violence #5)
another doris lessing quintet concludes
Tag: literature
To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara
we cannot equate hope with idiocy and expect to ever be happy
Do Every Thing Wrong!: XXXTentacion Against The World by 😇 Jarett Kobek 😇
an extensive discussion re the weighty themes raised by this book
Only Americans Burn In Hell by 🙏 Jarett Kobek 🙏
if you’re not reading Kobek you’re not reading
Under Country by Jonathan Trigell
contemporary fiction on the last quarter of the 20th century
My Dead Book by Nate Lippens
breathtaking book on death
The Passengers by Will Ashon
an excellent book
On Lighthouses by Jazmina Barrera
some notes on a book of notes about lighthouses
POETRY MONTH: Caviar by Sarah Fletcher
intellectual poems that don’t become impersonal
POETRY MONTH: Broken Sleep Anthology 2019
broken sleep’s second annual anthology
POETRY MONTH: 81 Austerities by Sam Riviere
objectively brilliant, yes, but not not not so good for me?
POETRY MONTH: Liver Mush by Graham Irvin
“People eat what they can. They love what can love them back.”
POETRY MONTH: Dreich #3
Today we’re (I’m) looking at another poetry magazine. I’m not quite sure if this one is a magazine or ifContinue Reading
POETRY MONTH: Acorn by Yoko Ono
is “art writing” poetry? / is “poetry” art writing?
POETRY MONTH: scott manley hadley readings round up
some old vids of *your* favourite mentally ill poet-blogger
POETRY MONTH: Lyme by Jared A. Carnie
some great love poetry surrounded by trepidatious discussion of someone else’s illness
POETRY MONTH: Produce Poetry Or Die. by Narada Voux Sanders
realising i read poetry looking for poets, not poems
POETRY MONTH: Rotten Milk by Karina Bush
latest chapbook from one of my favourite writers
POETRY MONTH: reviews of scott manley hadley
you been doing all this dope [blogging] / You ain’t had a chance to show ’em what time it is
POETRY MONTH: The Tinder Sonnets by Jennifer LoveGrove
a masterpiece of contemporary sonnetteering
POETRY MONTH: HEROIN HAIKUS by William Wantling
a gorgeous chapbook kicks off POETRY MONTH
POETRY MONTH: poetry film premiere
exclusive look at a new poetry film by scott manley hadley!
Babel by Alan Burns
a middle class british heterosexual Howl
Celebrations by Alan Burns
Alan Burns’ underwhelming follow-up to Europe After The Rain
The Experimentalists by Joe Darlington
the limits + importance of language (cw: suicide ideation)
I Is Another by Jon Fosse (Septology III – V)
an excellent novel (& a guest cat in the pic!!!)
a proper marriage by Doris Lessing (Children of Violence #2)
lessing’s children of violence continues to be excellent unlike my mood
micropost – Plastic Emotions by Shiromi Pinto
brief comments on a perfect novel
My Volcano by John Elizabeth Stintzi
a failure of intent
The Boys from Brazil by Ira Levin
pacy thriller; terrible bookstore; hot summer heat
The Other Name by Jon Fosse (Septology I-II)
slow fiction with relentless structure
Martha Quest by Doris Lessing (Children of Violence #1)
“the classic coming of age novel… for women”
The End: Surviving the World Through Imagined Disasters by Katie Goh
great essay on the end of the world in film & lit
Jarett Kobek & the Zodiac Killer (Motor Spirit & The Hunt for Zodiac)
two new books from Jarett Kobek about CRIME CRIME CRIME
Ambergris by Jeff VanderMeer
a big book about mushrooms that are magic (not magic mushrooms)
The Letters of Mina Harker by Dodie Bellamy
an excellent – near flawless – novel
James Baldwin: Collected Essays (Library of America, 1998)
james baldwin is great; vaccines are also great
Apocalypse by DH Lawrence
my domestic holiday begins with unexpected news; Lawrence eviscerates Xianity
Boy Parts by Eliza Clark (Influx Press, 2020)
a week off work begins with a great contemporary novel
Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
an excellent novel; in footnotes my concluding thoughts on the TV series The Affair
Frederik Pohl
read some terrible books that failed to distract me from anything
Joan Didion: The 1980s & 90s (PART TWO)
if u see a dead racoon at the side of the road
Joan Didion: The 1980s & 90s (PART ONE)
re-reading Joan Didion for the first time in my life
As We Have Always Done by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
powerful academic text on the impossibility of decolonisation within capitalistic structures
Three Books About Books By Bookish Lads
on ian flemming, jackie kerouac, karlo knausgaard
Obasan by Joy Kogawa
very “literary fiction” literary fiction about WW2 non-Nazi racism
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and its Metaphors by Susan Sontag
I’ve been ignoring my depressive relapse by studying AIDS
Triumph Of The Now 