POETRY MONTH: Rotten Milk by Karina Bush
latest chapbook from one of my favourite writers
Tag: Sexuality
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…
Testosterone Rex by Cordelia Fine
who is this for?
The First Day by Phil Harrison
mainstream literary fiction that I very nearly love
Maurice by E. M. Forster
a snobbish delight
Death In Venice by Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann, Thomas Mann, Thomas Mann, What A Very Thom Man
Selected Poems by Federico García Lorca
why I owned but didn’t read this book for five years (anger, depression)
Typhoid August by Sarah Fletcher
chapbook review that turns into me recounting my entire relationship with sex
Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black by Cookie Mueller
some really gorgeous prose
Hasard Objectif by Joanna Walsh
love love love love love… and books
Poems and Songs by Leonard Cohen
some inappropriate teenage nostalgia
Twenty Love Poems & A Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
it’s not love if u pretend they don’t shit
My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf
a dark, engaging, affecting read
Triumph Of The Now 