OUT by Christine Brooke-Rose
christmas brooke-rose quadrilogy day 1/4
christmas brooke-rose quadrilogy day 1/4
taxidermied rats telling a tale as old as time (100 years of time)
redressing a gap in my reading
ok toomer
a not-dirty-enough-to-be-dirty french novel
a very very very good big book on WAR
bye bye marcel, marcel bye bye
a sub-mediocre memoir
you absolute Stein
is all modernism doomed to fail?
i can’t believe it’s so racist
ideologically, i’d love to tear this apart, but i cannot…
so much depends upon triumphofthenow.com
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