Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
an excellent early 80s hybrid text with a distressing – and violent – context
Tag: suicide
Guyana by Élise Turcotte
a powerful quebecois novel about grief
Decreation by Anne Carson
was almost sectioned today; read a book that was difficult but perfect
Hello I want to die please fix me by Anna Mehler Paperny
writing about depression
Every Fox Is A Rabid Fox by Harry Gallon
death, dying, dead
Up at the Villa by W. Somerset Maugham
like my life, a novel that’s half tragedy, half farce
Philosophical Toys by Susana Medina
sad man scotty writes about being sad
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
a deluge of hand jobs and suicides cannot save this
Birthday Literary Suicide Tour
So I walk on towards deaths (plural) in the cooling twilight
On Not Being Suicidal Anymore
I nearly get hit by a speeding car and realise I want to LIVE
Music & Literature No. 7
I get angry and confused because I’m repressed and have elitist interests
Closely Observed Trains by Bohumil Hrabel
Good Czech book, but do I need to try harder to czech my privilege?
Suicide Notes by Lewis Parker
Another book of poetry from up-and-coming indie publisher Morbid Books.
kill yourself, you hipster faggot
some anonymous little merican sent poppa some h8 mail and poppa aint havin none of it
on the beach from fat man on a beach
Visiting the Llyn Peninsula in North Wales.
Shaking Hands with Death by Terry Pratchett
When I was young it was normal practice for supermarkets to fill the spaces around the tills – where peopleContinue Reading
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
fuck So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. fuck fuck fuck fuck fuckContinue Reading
Notes on Suicide by Simon Critchley
Slowly, the land recedes. I am writing this on a ferry, pushing its way across the surprisingly flat Bay (orContinue Reading
Sex: The Summer of Hard by Joe Casey and Piotr Kowalski
Again, I am too caffeinated to concentrate, too buzzed up to stop typing for more than the fifteen minutes orContinue Reading
October Ferry To Gabriola by Malcolm Lowry
As I continue to read through the (surprisingly) ever-expanding oeuvre of the alcoholic, depressive, late-Modernist writer, Malcolm Lowry, I amContinue Reading
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
A very easy way of gauging how much I’ve enjoyed a book is how long it takes me to readContinue Reading
In Ballast to the White Sea (A Scholarly Edition) by Malcolm Lowry
The biggest tragedy in Malcolm Lowry’s life (in his own opinion) was when the lakeside shack he lived in burnedContinue Reading
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams by Sylvia Plath
I intended to read Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams for a while, but held off doing so forContinue Reading
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
A classic, yes, I should probably have read it by now… But nineteenth century, French, more than 300 pages –Continue Reading
The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade by Thomas Lynch
Thomas Lynch is an acclaimed American poet. He is also an undertaker. This book is a collection of essays aboutContinue Reading
Pursued by Furies: A Life of Malcolm Lowry by George Bowker
I took a week to read this harrowing, depressing, heart-wrenchingly awful* biography of one of the most troubled, confused andContinue Reading
Like a Fiery Elephant by Jonathan Coe
I first read B. S. Johnson years after first learning of him. His (somewhat infamous) “book in a box”, The Unfortunates,Continue Reading
On The Films of B.S. Johnson, mainly Fat Man On A Beach
I don’t feel – because I’m not – qualified to term my analysis of this collection of BS Johnson’s shortContinue Reading
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
I thoroughly enjoyed The Bell Jar. And I realise “enjoyed” might not sound like the appropriate word… I loved Plath’sContinue Reading
On Killing Oneself in the Workplace
Sat at my desk at work, barely a minute (or at the very most two or three) goes by withoutContinue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 