Tag: mental health
The Unmapped Country: Stories & Fragments by Ann Quin
Find out what Scott Manley Hadley has been reading and doing
Birthday Literary Suicide Tour
So I walk on towards deaths (plural) in the cooling twilight
Hold Tight by Jeffrey Boakye
i’m looking tired but feeling great
On Not Being Suicidal Anymore
I nearly get hit by a speeding car and realise I want to LIVE
#Breakdown: What happened to the blogging?
I have mental health problems
Home is on my Mind… by Sheena Rose
Review of a lo-fi art book and footnotes about depression
Raymond Chandler: The Detections of Totality by Fredric Jameson
A pointless book for pointless people.
On Urinals
How many men must a man urinate in front of before you can call him a man?
Ice by Anna Kavan
x, x, baby / you’re cold as x / didn’t have x cube so you bought vanilla x
Swinging the Maelstrom: A Critical Edition by Malcolm Lowry
Lunar Caustic is a lie.
Hillary Clinton Haiku by Vera G. Shaw
This isn’t a real review of a real book, IT’S SCOTT ON SOCIAL ANXIETY!!!
[sung] oooh, fellas: what’s ya dicksiiiize?
A 4 second Noise Piece and a link to more madness at the HuffPo
Save Me The Waltz by Zelda Fitzgerald
Once he had said, ‘If you want to choose, you must be a goddess.’ That was when she had wantedContinue Reading
The Trip to Echo Spring by Olivia Laing
I’m an abyss filling up with regret and alcohol at equal measure, like a really wet martini.
You Could Do Something Amazing With Your Life [You Are Raoul Moat] by Andrew Hankinson
My new puppy hasn’t been very well. I’ve spent the day taking him to the vets and watching him sleep,Continue Reading
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Over the last month, Don Quixote has travelled a huge amount with me. He was with me for the tailContinue Reading
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
The Vegetarian by Han Kang is an odd book. I bought it for myself on my mad, wild, Foyles birthdayContinue Reading
Malcolm Lowry: Psalms and Songs (edited by Margerie Lowry
Psalms and Songs is an odd book, a collection of short stories by Malcolm Lowry (some previously published, others unfinished),Continue Reading
Tender Is The Night (Revised Edition) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald wasn’t happy with many things by the final decade of his life. He wasn’t happy with his career,Continue Reading
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
A classic, yes, I should probably have read it by now… But nineteenth century, French, more than 300 pages –Continue Reading
Sectioned: A Life Interrupted by John O’Donoghue
Sectioned: A Life Interrupted is a recent memoir by John O’Donoghue, a man who spent his teens and twentiesContinue Reading
Lunar Caustic by Malcolm Lowry
Malcolm Lowry’s books are all about depression and alcoholism. And most of them he was too drunk and sad toContinue Reading






















