Babel by Alan Burns
a middle class british heterosexual Howl
Tag: literature
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
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.
#TotNTV: Gary Budden, Writer & Publisher
Budden on Budden
#TotNTV: Setting Up A Literary Magazine
Sean Preston chats Open Pen.
Paraside Lost by John Milton
Imagine if the songs in Rocky Horror were shit
#TotNTV: Sophie Hopesmith
Sophie Hopesmith reads from her novel Another Justified Sinner, published 2017 by Dead Ink Books.
#TotNTV: Writing From Life
What does it mean to turn life into art?
#TotNTV: Translating the Balkans
Three writers and a publisher discuss work in translation
#TotNTV: Birmingham & the West Midlands
Shakespeare ‘n’ Sabbath
#TotNTV: Sheffield
A new episode, a new place: Sheffield
#TotNTV: London
live by the river
#TotNTV: Place
Nikolaidis, Li, Frears on Place
Triumph of the Now TV
home of the lo-fi magazine web series
Music & Literature No. 7
I get angry and confused because I’m repressed and have elitist interests
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