The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies
groovy 1970s fiction
groovy 1970s fiction
Richard Wright in Franco’s Spain and other fragments
well, it’s a “classic” and now i’ve read it
hide the dfw; notes on craft & posthumous novels
powerful novel that should be better known
a delicious 1960s Pelican about the dark arts…
writing on time travel like
An important new novel about sexual assault. Long post.
Men: they wear T-shirts saying “Smash the patriarchy” with an arrow pointing at their penis
because white men can’t / police their imagination / black men are dying
relentlessly promoting my anti-london agenda
It’s my birthday and I’ll write 6,500 words on Skyfall if I want to
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