TEN WORDS OR FEWER INTERVIEW: Duncan Heenan, author of Lead Us Not
a chat with Duncan Heenan, author of Lead Us Not
Tag: literature
After Dead by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood #15 (of 13))
probably the greatest book of flash fiction ever published
God Help The Child by Toni Morrison
sadness, cruelty, oppression, magical realism, and a writer in their mid-80s putting out possibly the best depiction of the millennial experience to date
Nova by Samuel R. Delany
a fine novel that didn’t blow my mind like samuel delany usually do
TEN WORDS OR FEWER INTERVIEW: Louise McLaughlin, author of Discovery
a chat with Louise McLaughlin, author of Discovery
A Phone of the Artist as a Young Man by Pierce Day – PART FOUR OF FOUR
am i bitter? am i jealous? am i over the hill??? – a four part review concludes
A Phone of the Artist as a Young Man by Pierce Day – PART THREE OF FOUR
closer to the text, the faults fall away – a four part review continues
A Phone of the Artist as a Young Man by Pierce Day – PART TWO OF FOUR
LITERATURE DIDN’T DIE WITH JAMES JOYCE: a four-post special series continues
A Phone of the Artist as a Young Man by Pierce Day – PART ONE OF FOUR
I WOULD HAVE SOLD MY DIRTY SOUL TO WRITE THIS BOOK: a four-post special series begins
TEN WORDS OR FEWER INTERVIEW: Jessica Aike, author of This Thing in My Head
a chat with Jessica Aike, author of This Thing in My Head
TEN WORDS OR FEWER INTERVIEW: George Carter, author of Beyond Boundaries
George Carter, author of Beyond Boundaries, answers some questions
TEN WORDS OR FEWER INTERVIEW: Jai Knight, author of Provincial Squinting at the Mercury Orgy
a chat with Jai Knight, author of Provincial Squinting at the Mercury Orgy
TEN WORDS OR FEWER INTERVIEW: Matt Nagin, author of The Book of Outcasts
Matt Nagin answers some questions in ten words or fewer
LUKA: A Novel by Ian Bancroft
an interesting novel about the horrors of intergenerational sectarian conflict
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
some thoughts and questions raised by Wharton’s wintry non-wonderland
Tell Me How Long The Train’s Been Gone by James Baldwin
it’s not Baldwin at his best, but at its best, it’s still brilliant
James Bond 007: COLD by John Gardner
an awful book anyone should be ashamed to have read
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
a dystopia from the nineties reads too much like social realism…
The Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse #14)
a heartbreaking misfire from the world of Sookie Stackhouse
Minor Detail by Adania Shibli
a serious novel that reminds us, again, of the cost of our silences
Studies in Classic American Literature by DH Lawrence
I read a bizarre quasi-blog from DH Lawrence so y’all don’t have to
La Mordida: A Scholarly Edition by Malcolm Lowry, edited and annotated by Patrick A. McCarthy
…a curiosity, a fragment of fragments, a distillation of the mind- and work-wrecking ferocity of addiction…
The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild by Mathias Enard
a glorious, cacophonous, collage of varied delights and pleasure
god made my face edited by Hilton Als
a book of essays about James Baldwin; a treat for anyone with a soul
I Will Write To Avenge My People by Annie Ernaux (The Nobel Lecture)
a tiny book containing Ernaux’s Nobel address and some bumpf
video announcement: new web series incoming!
omg omg – a new web series is coming soon from scott manley hadley!!!
Talking At The Gates: A Life of James Baldwin by James Campbell
a solid and non hagiographic literary biography
From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris (True Blood/Sookie Stackhouse Book #8)
i return to the perfect oeuvre of america’s greatest living novelist
The Bureau of Past Management by Iris Hanika
on blogging, on genocide, on the dangers of forgiveness
The Archbishop’s Ceiling by Arthur Miller
right up the Archbishop’s ceiling
‘Exterminate All The Brutes’ by Sven Lindqvist
a harrowing, unputdownable, essential book on the history of genocide
The Word for World Is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin
we’re not in Earthsea any more…
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel
notes on a brief bought of heady influenza
Against the Written Word by Ian F. Svenonius
a gen xer performing cynicism without realising it *has* gone out of style
This Is Not A Novel by David Markson
it is a novel, but it’s a good one
Drive Your Plough Over The Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
refreshing, uplifting and far from cloying depiction of someone living an ideal life
Malcolm Lowry: A Preface To His Fiction by Richard K. Cross
a fun read for a Lowry fan but probably little interest for others
The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin
there is enough in the world for everyone to have enough; we’ve got to fucking fix things, we have to fucking fix things
Pleasure Beach by Helen Palmer
if u love literature like i do you’ll love this
Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth by Naguib Mahfouz
a 1980s historical novel….. FROM EGYPT!?!?!?!?
The Four Gated City by Doris Lessing (Children of Violence #5)
another doris lessing quintet concludes
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
Triumph Of The Now 