Dear Senthuran by Akwaeke Emezi
a very american-feeling memoir about being rich and successful and a literal god?
Tag: memoir
James Baldwin: Collected Essays (Library of America, 1998)
james baldwin is great; vaccines are also great
Four Repeater Books (two I recommend)
two excellent books, two not excellent books
This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart by Madhur Anand
a blog about a book (yes i do still do these)
Blue Nights by Joan Didion
very little on the book, lots of rage at the slow quietening of June’s global protest movement
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
reading the best of books in the worst of times
The Years by Annie Ernaux
cracking under lockdown and stunning books
Happening by Annie Ernaux
feeling sad so read a sad book on abortion
Ushant by Conrad Aiken
a sub-mediocre memoir
Found Diary Entry from April 17th, 2010
bizarre note to self from 2010
I Am, I Am, I Am by Maggie O’Farrell
near death experiences in a bad blog post
My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf
a dark, engaging, affecting read
Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson
Finally, a book about race that makes me angry at myself
Dark Chapter by Winnie M Li
An important new novel about sexual assault. Long post.
Extravagant Stranger: A Memoir by Daniel Roy Connelly
A book that describes itself as “Ian Fleming meets Rimbaud”
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
this is not a test, it’s a memoir
The Last Holiday: A Memoir by Gil Scott-Heron
The ‘Godfather of Rap’ offers a rose-tinted memoir.
Specimen Days by Walt Whitman
The life and memories of Walt Whitman, focusing on war and nature.
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
In America alone, 281 pounds of pig shit is produced for every one person per year. I don’t know if that’s a lot as I don’t know what a pound is.
The Shepherd’s Life: A Tale of the Lake District by James Rebanks
Living in the city is bad for the soul
From Russia With Love by Ian Fleming
This is my first blog post in a while, and even then it’s still happening a little earlier than expected.Continue Reading
Recovery by John Berryman
Long before James Frey was breaking Oprah Winfrey’s fragile heart by fictionalising his time in addiction therapy and the behaviourContinue Reading
But You Did Not Come Back by Marceline Loridan-Ivens
I haven’t cried this much at a book in a while. I haven’t cried this much at a non-fiction bookContinue Reading
How I Escaped My Certain Fate by Stewart Lee
During the Summer I crossed a line in the sand I scratched out a long time ago and, accepting mortality andContinue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 