Kermit Lynch: Adventures On The Wine Route
an engaging (tho sexist) 1980s history of wine in France
Tag: sexism
The Autobiography of Malcolm X with Alex Haley
some thoughts on reading one of the 20th century’s most important books
Tales from Earthsea by Ursula le Guin
reading more earthsea, hating everything else
The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies
groovy 1970s fiction
Some Fragments of Incomplete Lockdown Blogs
Richard Wright in Franco’s Spain and other fragments
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
well, it’s a “classic” and now i’ve read it
The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
hide the dfw; notes on craft & posthumous novels
The Pumpkin Eater by Penelope Mortimer
powerful novel that should be better known
Witchcraft by Pennethorne Hughes
a delicious 1960s Pelican about the dark arts…
Time and Again by Jack Finney
writing on time travel like
Dark Chapter by Winnie M Li
An important new novel about sexual assault. Long post.
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Men: they wear T-shirts saying “Smash the patriarchy” with an arrow pointing at their penis
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
because white men can’t / police their imagination / black men are dying
do u have a sexist friend?
relentlessly promoting my anti-london agenda
Birthday Post: 6,500 Words on Skyfall
It’s my birthday and I’ll write 6,500 words on Skyfall if I want to
From Russia With Love by Ian Fleming
This is my first blog post in a while, and even then it’s still happening a little earlier than expected.Continue Reading
So Sad Today: Personal Essays by Melissa Broder
I shouldn’t have read this. CONTEXT: I walk a tightrope, emotionally, one that has become longer and looser ever sinceContinue Reading
The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler
So, as I periodically do, I decided to take a book off “serious” fiction and have a bit of aContinue Reading
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a big, serious novel all about big, serious things. It is intelligent, articulate, humaneContinue Reading
Filth by Irvine Welsh
Recently I’ve been very much enjoying Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong*’s Channel 4 police drama, Babylon. This under-watched TV showContinue Reading
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
I’ve never read much philosophy. Technically JUST Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Woman. So, for me, reading Friedrich Nietzsche’sContinue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 