Why I Hate Saturn by Kyle Baker
why i didn’t like why i hate saturn
Tag: New York
My Volcano by John Elizabeth Stintzi
a failure of intent
Zone One by Colson Whitehead
a literary zombie novel. does it work? oh yes it works!
Another Country by James Baldwin
another hagiography on Baldwin as scott packs up his north american life
The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin
a hyper-cautious novel about archetypes avoids offence but also characterisation
Joan Didion: The 1980s & 90s (PART THREE)
i cannot read myself happy
on sleaze via Saul Bellow
sleaze is not a synonym for prurience
The Proust Screenplay by Harold Pinter
to adapt is not to survive
Jazz by Toni Morrison
redressing a gap in my reading
Tender Omnibus
exceptional omnibus from NY publisher Tender Buttons
The Poems of Dylan Thomas
welsh poetry, often wonderful, sometimes dry
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
a stupid person’s idea of a clever novel; fun but flimsy
And The Band Played On by Randy Shilts
an essential non-fiction read and a new documentary on its legacy
The First Day by Phil Harrison
mainstream literary fiction that I very nearly love
Time and Again by Jack Finney
writing on time travel like
Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin
there ain’t no fool like a holy fool
Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black by Cookie Mueller
some really gorgeous prose
An American Dream by Norman Mailer
fun frothy men’s fiction
Open City by Teju Cole
transcript of a presentation from happier days
Trump & Me by Mark Singer
Trump cannot and will not be ignored.
Swinging the Maelstrom: A Critical Edition by Malcolm Lowry
Lunar Caustic is a lie.
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
This is the 300th book review I have posted on this blog*, and it seems appropriate that its focus is aContinue Reading
Midland: A Novel Out of Time by Honor Gavin
midlands novel and a road trip into childhood
The Lost Weekend by Charles Jackson
Malcolm Lowry, secret hero of these blog posts, fell into a deep depression after the publication of Charles Jackson’s TheContinue Reading
Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon
Sometimes I read novels where I can’t really see why they were written. Novels that say very little to meContinue Reading
Every Day Is For The Thief by Teju Cole
About a year ago I read and quite enjoyed Teju Cole’s Open City. It was a set text for myContinue Reading
Chess by Stefan Zweig
Chess is an excellent little novella written by Stefan Zweig in the early 1940s. An Austrian who’d run from theContinue Reading
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
I’m a sentimental, emotional, man. I’m sensitive. I feel. I feel big. And Jonathan Safran Foer’s 2005 Extremely Loud & IncrediblyContinue Reading
Three Lives of Tomomi Ishikawa by Benjamin Constable
This is a brand spanking new book, given to me before its UK release by a friend with connections. Ooooh.Continue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 