POETRY MONTH: HEROIN HAIKUS by William Wantling
a gorgeous chapbook kicks off POETRY MONTH
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a proper marriage by Doris Lessing (Children of Violence #2)
lessing’s children of violence continues to be excellent unlike my mood
Fathoms: The Whale in the World by Rebecca Giggs
on ethics and our species’ lack of them
Valentino and Sagittarius by Natalia Ginzburg
the lockdown continues and nothing changes
one day I read 5ive plays by Arthur Miller
on january 2nd, 2021, i read FIVE arthur miller plays
Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer
distracting the self with heady genre fiction
If All The World and Love Were Young by Stephen Sexton
top prize-winning poetry and emotional toll of lockdown ekes in
Parade’s End by Ford Madox Ford
a very very very good big book on WAR
Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard
for fans of The Goldfinch…
The Unauthorised Biography of Ezra Maas by Daniel James
the emotional cost of working in high end catering
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and its Metaphors by Susan Sontag
I’ve been ignoring my depressive relapse by studying AIDS
An Ocean of Minutes by Thea Lim
beautiful grown-up time travel
Old Filth by Jane Gardam
my thoughts on literature and class
Sursum Corda! The Collected Letters of Malcolm Lowry Volume One: 1926 – 46
700 pages of Lowryian bliss…
Sunshine by Melissa Lee-Houghton
this is impressive, i am depressive
The Unmapped Country: Stories & Fragments by Ann Quin
Find out what Scott Manley Hadley has been reading and doing
Trump & Me by Mark Singer
Trump cannot and will not be ignored.
Purity by Jonathan Franzen
I read every other novel by Jonathan Franzen during a period of about 18 months after really, really enjoying FreedomContinue Reading
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a big, serious novel all about big, serious things. It is intelligent, articulate, humaneContinue 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
Swann’s Way (À la recherche du temps perdu 1) by Marcel Proust
I’m writing this in the beautiful Spanish Pyrenees, having spent a day doing little more than reading Proust and lookingContinue Reading
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas is an engaging and somewhat strange book. It is, actually, the autobiography of GertrudeContinue Reading
Generation X by Douglas Coupland
Well, err… this was nothing like I expected. I LOVED, when I was younger, the brash 80s decadencia* of writersContinue Reading
Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
I haven’t read a huge amount of Vladimir Nabokov’s novels, only the very obvious one and probably the second mostContinue Reading
On The Dotted Line: Signatures, Sobriety*, Schoolbooks & Shearing
So, I’ve been back in the UK for three weeks. What have I been up to? Where has the streamContinue Reading
It Ain’t Brindisi Livin’ Free, Or: You Know What They Say About Men With Big Carbon Footprints*
I woke up at five thirty on my final morning in Palermo. I’d spent the evening before being highly irritatedContinue Reading
On Cocaine at the Hay-on-Wye Festival
I stumbled, heady on free cheese and Spanish lager, into a temporary toilet cubicle at the Hay-on-Wye literary festival, lockedContinue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 