Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti
i think it might maybe be errr one of the best books I’ve read
Tag: Toronto
video announcement: new web series incoming!
omg omg – a new web series is coming soon from scott manley hadley!!!
A free promotional Planet of the Apes comic I got from BMV on Bloor Street West a few weeks ago
reflecting on a free comic book and planet of the apes
POETRY MONTH: The Tinder Sonnets by Jennifer LoveGrove
a masterpiece of contemporary sonnetteering
Red X by David Demchuk
reality is evil enough… i do not *get* supernatural horror
Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
scott visits canada’s “museum of immigration” and gets reflective. Dune Messiah is barely mentioned.
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
a few weeks ago I read an excellent novel
VIDEO: Toronto Street Art: ‘First Timeline’ by Philip Cote, Kwest & Jarus
short doc inspired by Heinz Emigholz
Four Short(ish) Novels from 2020
can’t stop reading / can’t start doing anything else
This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart by Madhur Anand
a blog about a book (yes i do still do these)
The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman
forget the infamously sleazy page-and-a-half and enjoy!
In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
i read a great Toronto novel and recall summer 2019 when I worked at lux events
The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
accidentally read a right-wing novel; thoughts about returning to work mid-pandemic
Passing Ceremony by Helen Weinzweig
flawless 1970s fiction exploring dementia; plus shirtless pic
the cléo reader: 2013-2019
commencing unemployment and panicking about expertise
Faustine by Emma Tennant
sense begins to disperse as unemployment looms
Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq
great prose-verse novel about nunavut in the 70s
of is by Aisha Sasha John
i read some local poetry
On Being Blue by William H. Gass
great little essay i read while distracted by shitty work
Sabrina by Nick Drnaso
some thoughts on toronto trams
My Father and Myself by J. R. Ackerley
an important, wonderful, book
Preacher: Book Five by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
back on old school bullsh*t
Travels With Myself And Another by Martha Gellhorn
another racist travel book
The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
impressive, emotive, historical
An Ocean of Minutes by Thea Lim
beautiful grown-up time travel
The Chairs Are Where the People Go by Misha Glouberman with Sheila Heti
The Chairs Are Where The People Go is a strange book, and a highly-acclaimed one. It’s semi-written by Sheila Heti, authorContinue Reading
Important Artifacts and Personal Property From The Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion and Jewelry by Leanne Shapton
The day began with a shock. Pascale Petit, the poet, sent me a series of angry tweets about the reviewContinue Reading
How Should A Person Be? by Sheila Heti
Sheila Heti’s brand new* How Should A Person Be? is a charming – and very contemporary – autobiographical novel detailing aContinue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 