Ushant by Conrad Aiken
a sub-mediocre memoir
a sub-mediocre memoir
phenomenal essay on Mexican corruption
So I walk on towards deaths (plural) in the cooling twilight
Is The Best of Malcolm Lowry your favourite Malcolm Lowry book?
Lunar Caustic is a lie.
pleasure is a lightening bolt that leaves no trace
Psalms and Songs is an odd book, a collection of short stories by Malcolm Lowry (some previously published, others unfinished),Continue Reading
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Dark As The Grave Wherein my Friend is Laid is a strange book, and the first of the three (I believe)Continue Reading
I took a week to read this harrowing, depressing, heart-wrenchingly awful* biography of one of the most troubled, confused andContinue Reading
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Malcolm Lowry’s books are all about depression and alcoholism. And most of them he was too drunk and sad toContinue Reading
Malcolm Lowry died in 1957, having published only two books (both novels) in his lifetime: the youthful Ultramarine (1934, myContinue Reading
This book took quite a bit of searching to find. I first read about it in Jonathan Coe’s Like A FieryContinue Reading