Parade’s End by Ford Madox Ford
a very very very good big book on WAR
a very very very good big book on WAR
phenomenal essay on Mexican corruption
700 pages of Lowryian bliss…
Is The Best of Malcolm Lowry your favourite Malcolm Lowry book?
Lunar Caustic is a lie.
I’m not at work, so I should be writing real prose, doing something creative, emailing pitches for articles through toContinue Reading
Usually, by the end of January I’ve read a novel I expect to influence my reading habits for the restContinue Reading
Psalms and Songs is an odd book, a collection of short stories by Malcolm Lowry (some previously published, others unfinished),Continue Reading
Malcolm Lowry, secret hero of these blog posts, fell into a deep depression after the publication of Charles Jackson’s TheContinue Reading
As I continue to read through the (surprisingly) ever-expanding oeuvre of the alcoholic, depressive, late-Modernist writer, Malcolm Lowry, I amContinue Reading
The biggest tragedy in Malcolm Lowry’s life (in his own opinion) was when the lakeside shack he lived in burnedContinue Reading
In 1949, Malcolm Lowry (author of Under The Volcano) decided to adapt F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender Is The NightContinue Reading
Malcolm Lowry, that old favourite of mine… That depressed, alcoholic, international man destroyed by his own inability to deal with theContinue Reading
As I’ve mentioned on here many, many, many, many, many times, Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace* is one of theContinue Reading
Dark As The Grave Wherein my Friend is Laid is a strange book, and the first of the three (I believe)Continue Reading
I took a week to read this harrowing, depressing, heart-wrenchingly awful* biography of one of the most troubled, confused andContinue Reading
Malcolm Lowry’s books are all about depression and alcoholism. And most of them he was too drunk and sad toContinue Reading
Without a shadow of a doubt, Big Sur is the best book by Jack Kerouac I have ever read. It wasContinue Reading
Malcolm Lowry died in 1957, having published only two books (both novels) in his lifetime: the youthful Ultramarine (1934, myContinue Reading
Right. My blog is back in business, back to books. (As I’m sure you can see, my hair is far,Continue Reading
Malcolm Lowry was a tragic figure. A hugely talented writer, yet an alcoholic of such self-destructive proportions that he diedContinue Reading
This book took quite a bit of searching to find. I first read about it in Jonathan Coe’s Like A FieryContinue Reading