Tag: non-fiction
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
The Experimentalists by Joe Darlington
the limits + importance of language (cw: suicide ideation)
On Anarchism by Noam Chomsky
more anarchism on the blog thank you for reading
The End: Surviving the World Through Imagined Disasters by Katie Goh
great essay on the end of the world in film & lit
Around the World in Seventy-Two Days and Other Writings by Nellie Bly
scott reads a collection of writing from a trailblazing lady gonzo journalist!
Thriftwood: A Personal History of Scouting by Alice Wickenden
great memoir about youth and scouting
Mask Off: Masculinity Redefined by JJ Bola
an interesting introduction to progressive gender studies that every teenage lad should read!
Jarett Kobek & the Zodiac Killer (Motor Spirit & The Hunt for Zodiac)
two new books from Jarett Kobek about CRIME CRIME CRIME
Bluebeard’s Chamber by Michael Maar
i crit lit + this lit’s lit crit; MANNSLAUGHTER???
The Invention of Sicily: A Mediterranean History by Jamie Mackay
in the middle of another canadian winter, i depressingly read about a warm, interesting, place
James Baldwin: Collected Essays (Library of America, 1998)
james baldwin is great; vaccines are also great
Vagaries Malicieux by Djuna Barnes
thoughts on a 1922 essay on travel
Rhinoceros by Luke Thompson
small post on a great non-fiction text
Proustian Uncertainties by Saul Friedländer
another excellent book about marcel marcel marcel
Joan Didion: The 1980s & 90s (PART THREE)
i cannot read myself happy
Four Repeater Books (two I recommend)
two excellent books, two not excellent books
The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 by Doris Lessing
a perfect novella and a glorious personal essay
Three Books About Books By Bookish Lads
on ian flemming, jackie kerouac, karlo knausgaard
50 Words on Each of the Essays in Joan Didion’s Let Me Tell You What I Mean
Yes, it’s here, the new (new?) Joan Didion, so to celebrate I’m going to give a tiny tiny tiny commentContinue Reading
who we’re reading when we’re reading murakami by David Karashima
an excellent book about books
This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart by Madhur Anand
a blog about a book (yes i do still do these)
Paying the Land by Joe Sacco
not a sacco sh*it
Some Fragments of Incomplete Lockdown Blogs
Richard Wright in Franco’s Spain and other fragments
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
well, it’s a “classic” and now i’ve read it
Movements in European History by DH Lawrence
a mediocre history text then a pro-UBI, anti-“the Arts is special” rant
Blue Nights by Joan Didion
very little on the book, lots of rage at the slow quietening of June’s global protest movement
The break-up of the Soviet Empire in Eastern Europe by Ghita Ionescu
like a newspaper but a book… from 1965
Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher
without a call to violence, this is fantasy
Boys in Zinc by Svetlana Alexievich
fell orf my bike boohoo
The Broken Spears by Miguel León-Portilla (ed.)
historical documents on colonisation of Mexico translated from Nahuatl
Dark Days by James Baldwin
the strangeness of lockdown becomes the new normal
An Underground Guide To Sewers by Stephen Halliday
great book on the history of subterranean poo tubes
Triumph Of The Now 