Kermit Lynch: Adventures On The Wine Route
an engaging (tho sexist) 1980s history of wine in France
Tag: travel
The Passengers by Will Ashon
an excellent book
On Lighthouses by Jazmina Barrera
some notes on a book of notes about lighthouses
POETRY MONTH: scott manley hadley readings round up
some old vids of *your* favourite mentally ill poet-blogger
POETRY MONTH: poetry film premiere
exclusive look at a new poetry film by scott manley hadley!
Journey to the Alcarria by Camilo José Cela
uninspiring 1940s travel writing
Eastbound by Maylis de Kerangal
a pre-release post on a novella about Russian conscripts
The Boys from Brazil by Ira Levin
pacy thriller; terrible bookstore; hot summer heat
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Reading Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities while in Venice is like
Thriftwood: A Personal History of Scouting by Alice Wickenden
great memoir about youth and scouting
Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala
fiction about child soldiers that felt a little underdone
The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda by Ishmael Reed
during a brief solo trip to Montreal, scott reads a blistering take-down of the musical Hamilton and makes a personal announcement
Grievers by adrienne maree brown
great speculative fiction; scott visits quebec city
Apocalypse by DH Lawrence
my domestic holiday begins with unexpected news; Lawrence eviscerates Xianity
Vagaries Malicieux by Djuna Barnes
thoughts on a 1922 essay on travel
Proustian Uncertainties by Saul Friedländer
another excellent book about marcel marcel marcel
Joan Didion: The 1980s & 90s (PART TWO)
if u see a dead racoon at the side of the road
Joan Didion: The 1980s & 90s (PART ONE)
re-reading Joan Didion for the first time in my life
Lake of Urine by Guillermo Stitch
peepee not for me
The Magus: A Revised Version by John Fowles
sleazy, sexy, postmodern novel
Some Fragments of Incomplete Lockdown Blogs
Richard Wright in Franco’s Spain and other fragments
Surrender by Joanna Pocock
big post on privilege, re-wilding, ageing; a phenomenal read
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante
truly one of the greatest recent works of fiction
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
i, basic, enjoy some popular fiction
The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O’Neill
a great novel but mainly me whinging about winter
Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
excellent mid-life crisis novel
Sharks, Death, Surfers by Melissa McCarthy
lovely object with an essay on more than three things
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and its Metaphors by Susan Sontag
I’ve been ignoring my depressive relapse by studying AIDS
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
acclaimed canadian steampunky slavery novel
Travels With Myself And Another by Martha Gellhorn
another racist travel book
The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
in the relentless cold I seek escape
Vibrator by Mari Akasaka
a great Japanese novel
Chardin and Rembrandt by Marcel Proust
short post that took a month to not write
I Love Dick by Chris Kraus
a little bit of Vitamin D…
The Priest of Love by Harry T. Moore
An un-Lawrentian D.H. Lawrence biography
La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman
read good book, do bad exercise
Sursum Corda! The Collected Letters of Malcolm Lowry Volume One: 1926 – 46
700 pages of Lowryian bliss…
Death In Venice by Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann, Thomas Mann, Thomas Mann, What A Very Thom Man
Up at the Villa by W. Somerset Maugham
like my life, a novel that’s half tragedy, half farce
Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
ideologically, i’d love to tear this apart, but i cannot…
Birthday Post: 30 Things I’ve Done, 30 Things I Haven’t
it’s my 30th birthday
Selected Poems by Federico García Lorca
why I owned but didn’t read this book for five years (anger, depression)
Street of Thieves by Mathias Enard
another ruddy belter from enard who i love
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
The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick
pleasantly surprised by what I expected to be trash
Philosophical Toys by Susana Medina
sad man scotty writes about being sad
The Foreign Passion / La Pasión Extranjera by Cristian Aliaga
very very good Argentine poems
Settled Wanderers by Sam Berkson and Mohamed Sulaiman
a book about an unfamiliar struggle
Birthday Literary Suicide Tour
So I walk on towards deaths (plural) in the cooling twilight
Triumph Of The Now 