In the Shadow of the Phosphorus Dawn by Rob True
some spectacular stuff from UK indie, Influx Press
Tag: Sexuality
After Dead by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood #15 (of 13))
probably the greatest book of flash fiction ever published
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)
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
video: scott manley hadley tries stand up comedy
watch me name sex acts for almost two minutes!!!
James Baldwin: Living in Fire by Bill V. Mullen
an interesting – tho intentionally unemotive – biography of Big Jimmy B
Weird Fucks by Lynne Tillman
great very short book that never gets *that* weird
To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara
we cannot equate hope with idiocy and expect to ever be happy
POETRY MONTH: Rotten Milk by Karina Bush
latest chapbook from one of my favourite writers
Penguin Classics Marvel Collection: Black Panther by various
are superheroes for superzeroes?
some old fiction of mine, recently published
Originally posted on Horror Sleaze Trash:
Rasputin in the Disco Rasputin feels the madeira flow through his veins and the sweetness and…
Martha Quest by Doris Lessing (Children of Violence #1)
“the classic coming of age novel… for women”
Thriftwood: A Personal History of Scouting by Alice Wickenden
great memoir about youth and scouting
Passing by Nella Larsen (Norton Critical Edition)
a stunning harlem renaissance novel; scott muses on the hangover of growing up in a cultural desert
Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
in early Jan I was quoted in the New Yorker and read a perfect novel
The End of Obscenity by Charles Rembar
interesting book of the legal history of removing literary censorship
Proustian Uncertainties by Saul Friedländer
another excellent book about marcel marcel marcel
WAR #1: Pat Barker’s Regeneration Trilogy
read some great fiction for the first time in a while; still bored bored bored tho boohoo
The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, And Five (As Narrated by the Chroniclers of Zone Three) by Doris Lessing
part two of doris lessing’s sci-fi quintet
Four Short(ish) Novels from 2020
can’t stop reading / can’t start doing anything else
Valentino and Sagittarius by Natalia Ginzburg
the lockdown continues and nothing changes
James Baldwin Threeway
baldwin, baldwin, baldwin
Winter in July by Doris Lessing
short stories about non-monogamous colonial types
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
well, it’s a “classic” and now i’ve read it
Surrender by Joanna Pocock
big post on privilege, re-wilding, ageing; a phenomenal read
The Proust Screenplay by Harold Pinter
to adapt is not to survive
This Is Where I Get Off by KIRBY
great poetry, i whinge about lockdown innit
Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante
a truly phenomenal novel but Scotty still depressed
Baby, I Don’t Care by Chelsey Minnis
great book of pomes
New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Boxset (SITA), ed. Kwame Dawes & Chris Abani
a boxset of ten powerful chapbooks
Lift Every Voice, edited by Christine Taylor
little review of a strong anthology
People I’ve Met From The Internet by Stephen van Dyck
an essential contemporary memoir
The Pumpkin Eater by Penelope Mortimer
powerful novel that should be better known
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
some naughty naughty monks
Famous Trials 9: Roger Casement by H. Montgomery Hyde
some strange, unpalatable, vintage true crime
Cruising by Alex Espinoza
Are you done with the sofa, floor, kitchen table, baby?
Parade’s End by Ford Madox Ford
a very very very good big book on WAR
Happening by Annie Ernaux
feeling sad so read a sad book on abortion
Human Tetris by Vi Khi Nao and Ali Raz
a great, new, collection of short poems about love ‘n’ sex
My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness by Nagata Kabi
it’s good though it’s very optimistic
Fludd by Hilary Mantell
an early novel from a writer who’d get more exciting with age
Normal People by Sally Rooney
rooney rooney
My Father and Myself by J. R. Ackerley
an important, wonderful, book
Sex In Society by Alex Comfort
hubba hubba hubba
Vibrator by Mari Akasaka
a great Japanese novel
I Love Dick by Chris Kraus
a little bit of Vitamin D…
Triumph Of The Now 