Common by Nikolai Duffy
contemporary intellectual mid-life crisis novel that focuses on the life of the head not the life of the heart
Tag: pandemic
IAN ASSERSOHN: NOTES ON THE LAMPMAKER INTERVIEW
notes on my new video interview with Ian Assersohn, author of The Lampmaker
IAN ASSERSOHN: NEW VIDEO INTERVIEW
a new video interview with Ian Assersohn, author of The Lampmaker
Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel
it is human to cringe at the elevator pitch – a post-apocalyptic Shakespeare troupe (eww) – but don’t be put off, this is essentially a 2010s Infinite Jest (the good bits)
To Rest Our Minds & Bodies by Harriet Armstrong
preview of an excellent bildungsroman coming in 2025
Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed
i didn’t understand it all but i liked it a lot
The Baby Is Mine by Oyinkan Braithwaite
short and sweet novelette with a lot going for it
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
read a book abour time travel while on holiday (yes, that’s an elephant)
To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara
we cannot equate hope with idiocy and expect to ever be happy
Golden Apple of the Sun by Teju Cole
strongest lockdown lit i’ve (yet) to encounter
The Complete Orsinia by Ursula K Le Guin
no future until vaccination / please i need future
The Inheritance Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin
i move thru 2021 like a dying ghost
Clay’s Ark by Octavia E. Butler
an excellent short genre piece
The Seep by Chana Porter
very gen x “internet is bad” vibes
The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
accidentally read a right-wing novel; thoughts about returning to work mid-pandemic
The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
hide the dfw; notes on craft & posthumous novels
This Is Where I Get Off by KIRBY
great poetry, i whinge about lockdown innit
Cane by Jean Toomer
ok toomer
Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher
without a call to violence, this is fantasy
the governesses by anne serre
parkdale in the pandemic
The Triple Echo by H. E. Bates
a surprisingly great short novel that might be hateful
Look Back In Anger by John Osborne
further disintegration as i read a play that hasn’t aged well
Faustine by Emma Tennant
sense begins to disperse as unemployment looms
An Ocean of Minutes by Thea Lim
beautiful grown-up time travel
Triumph Of The Now 