The Letters of Mina Harker by Dodie Bellamy
an excellent – near flawless – novel
Tag: literature
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
Normal People by Sally Rooney
rooney rooney
Queen Mob’s Teahouse: Teh Book edited by Russell Bennetts
some inevitably biased hagiography
Silas Marner by George Eliot
a lovely fucking novel
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
when did a white man last write a GREAT novel?
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
an underwhelming but important read
From The Fatherland, With Love by Ryu Murakami
a big novel that’s surprisingly worthwhile
I Love Dick by Chris Kraus
a little bit of Vitamin D…
Three Dreams in the Key of G by Marc Nash
three split narratives, one of which confused me…
Journey To The End of the Night by Céline
accidentally read a book by a nazi
Every Love Story Is A Ghost Story by D. T. Max
David Foster Wallace was a prick.
Compass by Mathias Enard
A beautiful novel for an ugly world.
Triumph Of The Now 