Octavo by Marty Neumeier
a great historical detective novel surrounded by a misjudged contemporary thriller
Tag: sex
Vantage Points: On Media as Trans Memoir by Chase Joynt
phenomenal piece of mixed form memoir, thought, analysis, collage
In the Shadow of the Phosphorus Dawn by Rob True
some spectacular stuff from UK indie, Influx Press
After Dead by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood #15 (of 13))
probably the greatest book of flash fiction ever published
A Phone of the Artist as a Young Man by Pierce Day – PART ONE OF FOUR
I WOULD HAVE SOLD MY DIRTY SOUL TO WRITE THIS BOOK: a four-post special series begins
10 Year Hair Free “Celebration”: SOLID BALD video playlist link
10 years hair free… and still making a song (not a dance) about it
Reverse Cowgirl by McKenzie Wark
a spectacular sex memoir (the memoir is spectacular (and maybe the sex was too))
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
The Motion Of Light In Water by Samuel R Delany
i thoroughly enjoyed this 1980s memoir about the halycon days of cruising (and sci-fi)
To Rest Our Minds & Bodies by Harriet Armstrong
preview of an excellent bildungsroman coming in 2025
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
Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti
i think it might maybe be errr one of the best books I’ve read
Three by Ann Quin
a 1960s novel about unhappy, repressed, people making everything worse for themselves and others
Dead Reckoning by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse / True Blood #11)
what’s for elevenses? blood blood blood blood blood
video: it’s orange time – solid bald feat bb whamathan
a lovely song about oranges thank you
video: scott manley hadley tries stand up comedy
watch me name sex acts for almost two minutes!!!
Don’t Panic by George Lewis
valuable and open-hearted – if gently laddish – book on parenting for non-birthing people
The Birth Partner by Penny Simkin
a chilling book on the terrifying consequences of unrepresssed sexuality
video announcement: new web series incoming!
omg omg – a new web series is coming soon from scott manley hadley!!!
‘a disgusting lie’ by Fran Lock
excellent serious poetry that escapes the drudge of the academy
XXXMAS SPECTACULAR 2023: DADDY CHRISTMAS, HE’S GONNA COME (IF YOU WANT IT)
an xxxmas gift from me and mine to you and yours
Dead As A Doornail by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse #5)
some of my best friends are the vampires from True Blood
Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
an interesting Sudanese novel from the sixties
Dead To The World by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse #4)
the sookie stackhouse fun continues
The Last Lesbian Bar in the Midlands by cleo henry
a really very excellent set of poems
In The End, It Was All About Love by Musa Okwongo
it’s good flaneur-type stuff so it’s a yes yes yes from me but it did make me think
Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse #2)
do vampires jizz blood???
James Baldwin: Living in Fire by Bill V. Mullen
an interesting – tho intentionally unemotive – biography of Big Jimmy B
Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse #1)
thank you charlaine harris for this perfect trashy novel
Aseroë by François Dominique
dull, preening, “literature” with no redeeming features (for me)
my body would be the kindest of strangers by fiona helmsley
exceptional collection of writing you should definitely read
X by Davey Davis
it’s not hardcore super sex (or maybe it is?)
Weird Fucks by Lynne Tillman
great very short book that never gets *that* weird
Little Tales of Misogyny by Patricia Highsmith
the stories are short but the misogyny is loooooong
The Four Gated City by Doris Lessing (Children of Violence #5)
another doris lessing quintet concludes
Kenneth Anger’s Hollywood Babylon
a (perhaps accidental) anti-gossip tract
Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux
speculative short essay that proposes the historic existence of shame-free desire
You Ruin It When You Talk by Sarah Manvel
very funny novelette from hipstertopia’s Open Pen
The Trespasser by DH Lawrence
unambitious, uncomplex, wish it had been sexier
The Future Won’t Be Long by 🙏Jarett Kobek 🙏
one of the best normal books you’ve never read
POETRY MONTH: 81 Austerities by Sam Riviere
objectively brilliant, yes, but not not not so good for me?
POETRY MONTH: Rotten Milk by Karina Bush
latest chapbook from one of my favourite writers
POETRY MONTH: The Tinder Sonnets by Jennifer LoveGrove
a masterpiece of contemporary sonnetteering
POETRY MONTH: ANTHOLOGY 2018 by Broken Sleep Books
an excellent anthology from friend of the blog broken sleep books
Licence Renewed by John Gardner
reading more of John Gardner’s James Bond so you don’t have to
Martha Quest by Doris Lessing (Children of Violence #1)
“the classic coming of age novel… for women”
Tales from Earthsea by Ursula le Guin
reading more earthsea, hating everything else
The Once and Future King by T. H. White
astounded by the brilliance of this mid-20th century arthurian novel
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
vampires don’t count as supernatural horror because they’re too sexy aha
On The Beach by Nevil Shute
repression at the end of the world
Triumph Of The Now 