video announcement: new web series incoming!
omg omg – a new web series is coming soon from scott manley hadley!!!
omg omg – a new web series is coming soon from scott manley hadley!!!
a solid and non hagiographic literary biography
i return to the perfect oeuvre of america’s greatest living novelist
on blogging, on genocide, on the dangers of forgiveness
right up the Archbishop’s ceiling
a harrowing, unputdownable, essential book on the history of genocide
we’re not in Earthsea any more…
notes on a brief bought of heady influenza
a gen xer performing cynicism without realising it *has* gone out of style
it is a novel, but it’s a good one
refreshing, uplifting and far from cloying depiction of someone living an ideal life
a fun read for a Lowry fan but probably little interest for others
there is enough in the world for everyone to have enough; we’ve got to fucking fix things, we have to fucking fix things
if u love literature like i do you’ll love this
a 1980s historical novel….. FROM EGYPT!?!?!?!?
another doris lessing quintet concludes
we cannot equate hope with idiocy and expect to ever be happy
an extensive discussion re the weighty themes raised by this book
if you’re not reading Kobek you’re not reading
contemporary fiction on the last quarter of the 20th century
breathtaking book on death
an excellent book
some notes on a book of notes about lighthouses
intellectual poems that don’t become impersonal
broken sleep’s second annual anthology
objectively brilliant, yes, but not not not so good for me?
“People eat what they can. They love what can love them back.”
Today we’re (I’m) looking at another poetry magazine. I’m not quite sure if this one is a magazine or ifContinue Reading
is “art writing” poetry? / is “poetry” art writing?
some old vids of *your* favourite mentally ill poet-blogger
some great love poetry surrounded by trepidatious discussion of someone else’s illness
realising i read poetry looking for poets, not poems
latest chapbook from one of my favourite writers
you been doing all this dope [blogging] / You ain’t had a chance to show ’em what time it is
a masterpiece of contemporary sonnetteering
a gorgeous chapbook kicks off POETRY MONTH
exclusive look at a new poetry film by scott manley hadley!
a middle class british heterosexual Howl
Alan Burns’ underwhelming follow-up to Europe After The Rain
the limits + importance of language (cw: suicide ideation)
an excellent novel (& a guest cat in the pic!!!)
lessing’s children of violence continues to be excellent unlike my mood
brief comments on a perfect novel
a failure of intent
pacy thriller; terrible bookstore; hot summer heat
slow fiction with relentless structure
“the classic coming of age novel… for women”
great essay on the end of the world in film & lit
two new books from Jarett Kobek about CRIME CRIME CRIME