Love, Pan-Fried by Gray Crosbie
great queer flash fiction from scotland
Tag: Mental illness
Hello I want to die please fix me by Anna Mehler Paperny
writing about depression
Insane by Rainald Goetz
an intense, disconcerting, spectacular novel
My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness by Nagata Kabi
it’s good though it’s very optimistic
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and its Metaphors by Susan Sontag
I’ve been ignoring my depressive relapse by studying AIDS
Ghosts of My Life by Mark Fisher
some over-hyped Gen Xey essays
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
getting sad again in the bleak northern winter
My Father and Myself by J. R. Ackerley
an important, wonderful, book
The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
in the relentless cold I seek escape
Vibrator by Mari Akasaka
a great Japanese novel
Every Fox Is A Rabid Fox by Harry Gallon
death, dying, dead
Philosophical Toys by Susana Medina
sad man scotty writes about being sad
Sunshine by Melissa Lee-Houghton
this is impressive, i am depressive
Sad Farsi Love Poem by Abi Andrews
an effective exploration of white saviour complex
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
a deluge of hand jobs and suicides cannot save this
Bear by Marian Engel
simply the bestial
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
On Not Being Suicidal Anymore
I nearly get hit by a speeding car and realise I want to LIVE
Home is on my Mind… by Sheena Rose
Review of a lo-fi art book and footnotes about depression
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!!!
You Could Do Something Amazing With Your Life [You Are Raoul Moat] by Andrew Hankinson
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Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
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Oblivion: Stories by David Foster Wallace
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Sectioned: A Life Interrupted by John O’Donoghue
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Umbrella by Will Self
Will Self’s 2012 novel Umbrella, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize that went to Bring Up The Bodies, is a sexy, war-y, JoyceanContinue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 