TEN WORDS OR FEWER INTERVIEW: Karl Lorenz Willett, author of A Good Life: The Perception of Perfection
a short chat with Karl Lorenz Willett, author of A Good Life: The Perception of Perfection
Tag: Mental illness
Love You Forever by Robert Munsch & Sheila McGraw
i read a devastatingly beautiful book for children
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…
Abolish the Family by Sophie Lewis
accidentally, i am almost a revolutionary
‘a timeline’ and ‘borderline personality disorder’ from the pleasure of regret – scott manley hadley: live at paradise (new web series episode)
more from my 2022-shot web series, this time on diagnoses and the passage of time
In Limbo by deb jj lee
a book that potentially argues it’s worse to be depressed than abusive???
My 2023? Some good books and trips but mostly a waste of time!
the best part was when i spent a full day as an unpaid boom mic operator
Journey to the East by Herman Hesse
on travel when depressed: it’s a balm, a binge, a fling, that feels good but fixes nothing
The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami
stream of consciousness response to reading an illustrated short story
World Running Down by Al Hess
reading too much SF cuz im on a psychological downswing that wont end unless/until i change the material conditions of my life which i am trying to do
Play The Devil by Scott Laudati
i read a fun picaresque novel but remembered how much i hate my name
Fiebre Tropical by Julián Delgado Lopera
was i too old for this one or just too depressed???
Video: Santander (a 40 minute improvised monologue)
40 mins of talk and shots of rainy northern spain
notes on a radical pamphlet #3: From Animals To Anarchism by Kevin Watkinson & Donal O’Driscoll
notes on a radical pamphlet is an occasional series
Triumph of the Now is 10! lol whoops
ten years ago i started a blog instead of killing myself
Embassytown by China Mieville
i suppose this book is excellent?
the discworld graphic novels adapted from Terry Pratchett by Scott Rockwell & illustrated by Steven Ross
terrified i may look like i dont know how to drive
Borne by Jeff VanderMeer
med free and hating life lol 😜
We Do This ‘Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba
hope is a discipline, and I am undisciplined
2022 REVIEW: FOR ME, IT WAS MIXED
that wasn’t very good for me
Mothers Don’t by Katixa Agirre
If you do not feel or even believe in love, then how and why would you bring others into the nightmare that is existence?
My Dead Book by Nate Lippens
breathtaking book on death
POETRY MONTH: 81 Austerities by Sam Riviere
objectively brilliant, yes, but not not not so good for me?
POETRY MONTH: Waiting Room by Poppy Cockburn
powerful, direct, dignified poems
Fireship/Mother and Child by Joan D. Vinge
a novella as boring as my life rn then a novella that’s good
The Other Wind by Ursula Le Guin
i continue having a terrible time
Wind Pinball (that’s what it says on the spine) by Haruki Murakami
not a great book, not a great time (post from the winter)
Dear Senthuran by Akwaeke Emezi
a very american-feeling memoir about being rich and successful and a literal god?
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist by Adrian Tomine
a bland book for my bland life
Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
in early Jan I was quoted in the New Yorker and read a perfect novel
Trauma??? of intent??? or something like that by Anthony Burgess 
not a witty pastiche so much as a dull echo
Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
scott visits canada’s “museum of immigration” and gets reflective. Dune Messiah is barely mentioned.
Fathoms: The Whale in the World by Rebecca Giggs
on ethics and our species’ lack of them
WAR #1: Pat Barker’s Regeneration Trilogy
read some great fiction for the first time in a while; still bored bored bored tho boohoo
Frederik Pohl
read some terrible books that failed to distract me from anything
Joan Didion: The 1980s & 90s (PART THREE)
i cannot read myself happy
Four Repeater Books (two I recommend)
two excellent books, two not excellent books
Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta by Doris Lessing
part one of lessing’s sci-fi quintet
Three Books About Books By Bookish Lads
on ian flemming, jackie kerouac, karlo knausgaard
The Complete Orsinia by Ursula K Le Guin
no future until vaccination / please i need future
Not Really A Review of Not Really A Year
my year was deathly dull, which in 2020 counts as a good year
Notes on Four Books I Read Months Ago
notes on four books i read earlier in the year
the heads of cerberus by Francis Stevens
early sci-fi and smh so sad
The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin
a fun book but not a real one, y’know
the cléo reader: 2013-2019
commencing unemployment and panicking about expertise
If All The World and Love Were Young by Stephen Sexton
top prize-winning poetry and emotional toll of lockdown ekes in
The Years by Annie Ernaux
cracking under lockdown and stunning books
Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
Who the f*ck is Malcolm Gladwell?
The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi
essentially a review of my new meds
Decreation by Anne Carson
was almost sectioned today; read a book that was difficult but perfect
Triumph Of The Now 