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The Essential Lenny Bruce: His Original Unexpurgated Satirical Routines, edited by John Cohen
reading some work of an important early comedian
IMPERSONAL INTERVIEWS: Keith Woodhouse, author of Selected Works
Meet Keith Woodhouse: artist, poet and author of Selected Works.
Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
phenomenal stuff from an acclaimed writer I’ve never previously encountered
Fall of Civilizations [sic] by Paul Cooper
fourteen brief histories reminding us that everything always falls apart
Vantage Points: On Media as Trans Memoir by Chase Joynt
phenomenal piece of mixed form memoir, thought, analysis, collage
TEN WORDS OR FEWER INTERVIEW: Claire Moore, author of It’s OK To Wobble
a conversation with Claire Moore, author of It’s OK To Wobble
Notes Made While Falling by Jenn Ashworth
some notes on Notes Made While Falling, EXACTLY my kinda book
Live Show Announcement: Bald Personality Disorder at the Lambeth Fringe
I’m very very very excited to announce that I’ll be performing some kind of spoken word/alternative comedy/performance art work-in-progress showContinue Reading
TEN WORDS OR FEWER INTERVIEW: Steve McLean, author of Stealing Deep Purple
a conversation with Steve McLean, author of Stealing Deep Purple
Notes To John by Joan Didion
a rallying hypocritical cry or is Notes To John an unethical publication in this form only???
TEN WORDS OR FEWER INTERVIEW: Frank Abrams, author of The Cockfight
interview with Frank Abrams, author of The Cockfight
Daddy Boy by Emerson Whitney
chasing tornadoes and remembering pasts
Girls Gone Old by Fiona Helmsley
exceptional essay collection from an under-appreciated american
Motion Sickness by Lynne Tillman
a surprisingly disappointing book about flaneuring about
There’s No business like BUSINESS! by Brian Butterfield
a strange text from a strange, failed, business person
because earth is flat: a flat earth poetry collection – scott manley hadley: live at paradise (new web series episode)
the earth is flat; if it wasn’t, why would there be a whole book of poetry presuming it was???
my father, from a distance – scott manley hadley: live at paradise (new web series episode)
Filmed at the tail end of the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto’s historic Paradise Theatre on Bloor St W, the poet,Continue Reading
video announcement: new web series incoming!
omg omg – a new web series is coming soon from scott manley hadley!!!
Prisons We Choose To Live Inside by Doris Lessing
writing on the dangers of group mentalities, though pretty committed to one particular viewing of the world…
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
a solid memoir about the importance of food… and cancer
Villains Of All Nations by Marcus Rediker
probably too old now to have been a pirate
This Is Not A Novel by David Markson
it is a novel, but it’s a good one
Conditional Tense by Antjie Krog
a serious South African book about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Joan Didion: The Last Interview
oh yes i didion’t
A Handbook of Disappointed Fate by Anne Boyer
a great (as in “very good” not “large”) collection of prose from an acclaimed american poet
The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin
there is enough in the world for everyone to have enough; we’ve got to fucking fix things, we have to fucking fix things
These Bones Will Rise Again by Panashe Chigumadzi
notes on a political essay (slightly too big for a radical pamphlet)
A Small Personal Voice by Doris Lessing (ed. Paul Schlueter)
some beautiful, thematically varied, writings
Happy Like Murderers by Gordon Burn
strict taboos put us all in danger: smh on fred + rose west
my body would be the kindest of strangers by fiona helmsley
exceptional collection of writing you should definitely read
Space Crone by Ursula K Le Guin
read a little guin
Going Home by Doris Lessing
doris lessing returns to the southern rhodesia of her youth
Can the monster speak? by Paul B. Preciado
arguments to make the world better in language that can only make it worse
Kenneth Anger’s Hollywood Babylon
a (perhaps accidental) anti-gossip tract
Do Every Thing Wrong!: XXXTentacion Against The World by 😇 Jarett Kobek 😇
an extensive discussion re the weighty themes raised by this book
George Michael’s Faith: 33 1/3 by Matthew Horton
an excellent small book about St. George Michael
Soft & Cuddly by 🙏 Jarett Kobek 🙏
a minor kobek is a major good read
Strangers Within: Documentary as Encounter, edited by Therese Henningsen & Juliette Joffé
mostly great anthology about filmmaking and strangers that gets too academic (for me) by its end
The Evidence of Things Not Seen by James Baldwin
it’s not Baldwin’s best, but it’s better than most books by everyone else!
The Yellow House by Sarah M Broom
boooorrrrriiiiinnnggg
On Lighthouses by Jazmina Barrera
some notes on a book of notes about lighthouses
The Government of No One by Ruth Kinna
anarchism is hope
POETRY MONTH: reviews of scott manley hadley
you been doing all this dope [blogging] / You ain’t had a chance to show ’em what time it is
POETRY MONTH: poetry film premiere
exclusive look at a new poetry film by scott manley hadley!
excerpts from The Imagination on Trial: BS Johnson interviewed by Alan Burns
excerpts from a BS Johnson interview
Journey to the Alcarria by Camilo José Cela
uninspiring 1940s travel writing
Pissing Figures 1280–2014 by Jean-Claude Lebensztejn
mostly fun book on peeing in art with a very off-colour digression
Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire by Max Haiven
palm oil as microcosm of the mess that is capitalism
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