Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
vampires don’t count as supernatural horror because they’re too sexy aha
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Four Repeater Books (two I recommend)
two excellent books, two not excellent books
Two Lives by Janet Malcolm
great literary biography but not AS GREAT as other malcolm i’ve read
Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
still working too much; brief notes on celibacy as sexual practice
Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
excellent mid-life crisis novel
Three Lives by Gertrude Stein
you absolute Stein
Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
ideologically, i’d love to tear this apart, but i cannot…
Hasard Objectif by Joanna Walsh
love love love love love… and books
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
Gorgeous, sensuous, unforgettable
Everybody Behaves Badly by Lesley M. M. Blume
Can I love Hemingway’s writing but hate Hemingway?
Vampire in Love by Enrique Vila-Matas
Experimental late 20th century short fiction.
Dotter of her Father’s Eyes by Mary M Talbot and Bryan Talbot
There’s something both lower-case romantic and sweetly anachronistic about a husband-wife literary collaboration. What makes this one, Dotter of herContinue Reading
Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch is one of the handful of writers who I return to with regular irregularity. Like Graham Greene, VirginiaContinue Reading
Jerusalem the Golden by Margaret Drabble
Margaret Drabble is not a novelist I’ve read before. To be honest, I’m mainly aware of her for being withinContinue Reading
Lonesome Traveler by Jack Kerouac
Last Summer, whilst twatpacking* around the Mediterranean, Tunisair lost my backpack between Casablanca and Tunis. Though it contained nothing ofContinue 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
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
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Tropic of Cancer, to use a colloquialism Miller might have approved of, is a cunt’s hair from being EXACTLY myContinue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 