A Dream Wants Waking By Lydia Kwa
i enjoyed this chaotic novel but never worked out if it was in control or not…
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LUKA: A Novel by Ian Bancroft
an interesting novel about the horrors of intergenerational sectarian conflict
TEN WORDS OR FEWER INTERVIEW: J.S. Morton, author of You’re Gone
interview with J.S. Morton, author of You’re Gone
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
some thoughts and questions raised by Wharton’s wintry non-wonderland
Tell Me How Long The Train’s Been Gone by James Baldwin
it’s not Baldwin at his best, but at its best, it’s still brilliant
James Bond 007: COLD by John Gardner
an awful book anyone should be ashamed to have read
Plainwater by Anne Carson
you can read this map by the light of a thunderstorm: Carson on Camino
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
a dystopia from the nineties reads too much like social realism…
The Middlemen: A Satire by Christine Brooke-Rose
pointed gags from the 1960s about things that haven’t changed
Trouble With Lichen by John Wyndham
the trouble with trouble with lichen is that it’s best read half-asleep and mostly i read awake
A Haunted House by Virginia Woolf
there’s a reason Woolf didn’t collate this story collection in her own lifetime…
Gnomon by Nick Harkaway
a giant book that offers a giant good time
The Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse #14)
a heartbreaking misfire from the world of Sookie Stackhouse
Dead Ever After by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse #13 (of 13))
thoughts on one last trip to bon temps and smh ponders last vs first impressions
video announcement: new web series incoming!
omg omg – a new web series is coming soon from scott manley hadley!!!
Fabulae: How It Begins by Isabella Streffen
interesting contemporary poetry about detailed rereadings of books I haven’t read
A Handbook of Disappointed Fate by Anne Boyer
a great (as in “very good” not “large”) collection of prose from an acclaimed american poet
Three Books About Books By Bookish Lads
on ian flemming, jackie kerouac, karlo knausgaard
The Seep by Chana Porter
very gen x “internet is bad” vibes
Some Fragments of Incomplete Lockdown Blogs
Richard Wright in Franco’s Spain and other fragments
of is by Aisha Sasha John
i read some local poetry
John Barleycorn by Jack London
1914 memoir about alcoholism that oozes big denial
Bad Boy Poet: Intimate & Al Fresco
reading some poems in the Spanish desert…
The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick
pleasantly surprised by what I expected to be trash
The Observances by Kate Miller
is “good” poetry bad and “bad” poetry “good”?
#TotNTV: Sophie Hopesmith
Sophie Hopesmith reads from her novel Another Justified Sinner, published 2017 by Dead Ink Books.
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
I try being kind to myself. It’s alright.
#TotNTV: Winnie M Li & Dark Chapter
#TotNTV episode discussing a novel about sexual assault
Triumph of the Now TV
home of the lo-fi magazine web series
Radar Road: The Best of On Impulse by Nath Jones
A short story collection, and my first experience of an eBook.
The Diamond Smugglers by Ian Fleming
I’m writing this on an aeroplane to Istanbul, off for a “mimibreak”*. Treating myself to a trip, all on myContinue Reading
Miss Herbert by Adam Thirlwell
Adam Thirwell is known as a writer of short, punchy, narrator-led novels. Of the two I’ve read, one, Kapow!, IContinue Reading
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
Someone told me about eighteen months ago that I should be careful. That when people pass the mid-point of theirContinue Reading
This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolff
This is the third memoir about “growing up” in the second half of the 20th-century I’ve read in a rowContinue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 