Malcolm Lowry: A Preface To His Fiction by Richard K. Cross
a fun read for a Lowry fan but probably little interest for others
a fun read for a Lowry fan but probably little interest for others
progressive(ish) proto-modernism from 1880s South Africa
doris lessing’s sci-fi quintet
part one of lessing’s sci-fi quintet
hide the dfw; notes on craft & posthumous novels
a very very very good big book on WAR
a sub-mediocre memoir
One of the most important and engaging novels I’ve ever read, a sprawling fictional exploration not of a specific person,Continue Reading
phenomenal essay on Mexican corruption
700 pages of Lowryian bliss…
like my life, a novel that’s half tragedy, half farce
a deluge of hand jobs and suicides cannot save this
So I walk on towards deaths (plural) in the cooling twilight
Is The Best of Malcolm Lowry your favourite Malcolm Lowry book?
x, x, baby / you’re cold as x / didn’t have x cube so you bought vanilla x
Lunar Caustic is a lie.
pleasure is a lightening bolt that leaves no trace
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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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In 1949, Malcolm Lowry (author of Under The Volcano) decided to adapt F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender Is The NightContinue Reading
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Malcolm Lowry, that old favourite of mine… That depressed, alcoholic, international man destroyed by his own inability to deal with theContinue Reading
As I’ve mentioned on here many, many, many, many, many times, Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace* is one of theContinue Reading
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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 died in 1957, having published only two books (both novels) in his lifetime: the youthful Ultramarine (1934, myContinue Reading
Right. My blog is back in business, back to books. (As I’m sure you can see, my hair is far,Continue Reading
Malcolm Lowry was a tragic figure. A hugely talented writer, yet an alcoholic of such self-destructive proportions that he diedContinue Reading
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