The Essential Lenny Bruce: His Original Unexpurgated Satirical Routines, edited by John Cohen
reading some work of an important early comedian
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Camp Concentration by Thomas M. Disch
what if we could all be geniuses… for a few months as we die of germ warfare???
Windslash: The Last Elemental by Chris Bennett
being English poisons the mind; I read a fantasy novel that intentionally repeats itself
The Exhaust of Dreams Adulterated by Jane Rosenberg LaForge
a lovely collection of engaging autobiographical poetry
IMPERSONAL INTERVIEW: DONOVAN REYES, author of DENOUEMENT and APOCRYPHA
an interview with DONOVAN REYES, author of two new books
Leave The World Behind by Rumaan Alam
halfwritten blog from a month ago with notes on the delay thank u for reading
Vantage Points: On Media as Trans Memoir by Chase Joynt
phenomenal piece of mixed form memoir, thought, analysis, collage
West by Carys Davies
notes on a cracking, strange, borderline metatexual novella
VIDEO INTERVIEW: MATT NAGIN BONUS MATERIAL – WHAT MAKES A GOOD SHORT STORY? – Triumph Of The Now Interviews Ep. 4
bonus material with fictioneer and comedian Matt Nagin discussing what makes a good short story
VIDEO INTERVIEW: MATT NAGIN ON THE BOOK OF OUTCASTS – Triumph Of The Now Interviews Ep. 3
Fictioneer & comedian Matt Nagin joins smh to chat writing, reading, AI, travel, and all sorts of other fun
video: scott manley hadley returns to Will Mars’ Joke Thieves
watch a room full of people chant my name (I didn’t instigate it)
VIDEO INTERVIEW: FRANK ABRAMS READING & SONG: Triumph Of The Now Interviews Ep. 2
a new video interview series continues with reading & music from FRANK ABRAMS, author of THE COCKFIGHT
After Dead by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood #15 (of 13))
probably the greatest book of flash fiction ever published
Reverse Cowgirl by McKenzie Wark
a spectacular sex memoir (the memoir is spectacular (and maybe the sex was too))
Tell Me How Long The Train’s Been Gone by James Baldwin
it’s not Baldwin at his best, but at its best, it’s still brilliant
Plainwater by Anne Carson
you can read this map by the light of a thunderstorm: Carson on Camino
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
a dystopia from the nineties reads too much like social realism…
Studies in Classic American Literature by DH Lawrence
I read a bizarre quasi-blog from DH Lawrence so y’all don’t have to
The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde
generations fought for a future that – this week – is being murdered on the world stage
Neveryóna by Samuel R. Delany (Book 2 of 4)
a cracking novel-length trip to Chip Delany’s 1980s fantasy land
The Ballad of Beta-2 & Empire Star by Samuel R Delany
a pair of early novellas that really delivers, especially one
Deadlocked by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse #12)
in novel 12 of 13 i finally find something in Sookie Stackhouse i don’t like (that’s a joke i loved it)
Still Pictures: On Photography & Memory by Janet Malcolm
Janet Malcolm did it again one last time
Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith
a great trad thriller in the sir ian fleming tradition
Out of the Dead City by Samuel R. Delany (The Fall of The Towers #1)
my second summer samuel treat
Death Egg by Nathaniel Duggan
the publisher behind Liver Mush returns with more poetry almost as good as Liver Mush
Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse #9)
no one deserves misery, which is why we should all be reading Stackhouse
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
a solid memoir about the importance of food… and cancer
Matrix by Lauren Groff
a solid historical novel – won’t change your life, but a serviceable way to kill a few commutes!
Rescue Me: On Dogs and Their Humans by Margret Grebowicz
we have lived with dogs for longer than we’ve lived with agriculture; we are arguably not people without them…
Talking At The Gates: A Life of James Baldwin by James Campbell
a solid and non hagiographic literary biography
From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris (True Blood/Sookie Stackhouse Book #8)
i return to the perfect oeuvre of america’s greatest living novelist
Baby, Bring Back 1997 by Scott Laudati
a premium usa contemporary prose chapbook
This Is Not A Novel by David Markson
it is a novel, but it’s a good one
The Wind’s Twelve Quarters by Ursula K. Le Guin
some of the best fiction you’re likely to find… plus some stories that aren’t
Dune 5: Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert
how u dune? ur dune very well if ur dune 5
Spontaneous Particulars: The Telepathy of Archives by Susan Howe
interesting intellectualised essay on the beauty of physical literary archives
A Handbook of Disappointed Fate by Anne Boyer
a great (as in “very good” not “large”) collection of prose from an acclaimed american poet
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology by David Graeber
contemporary capitalist society is a dead end death cult – and baybe we all believe
World Running Down by Al Hess
reading too much SF cuz im on a psychological downswing that wont end unless/until i change the material conditions of my life which i am trying to do
Play The Devil by Scott Laudati
i read a fun picaresque novel but remembered how much i hate my name
Club Dead by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse #3)
book 3 of the true blood novels continues to thrill and spill [blood]
James Baldwin: Living in Fire by Bill V. Mullen
an interesting – tho intentionally unemotive – biography of Big Jimmy B
notes on a radical pamphlet #4: God’s Hit List edited by Chaz Bufe
…a triumph of the now series continues…
Tripticks by Ann Quin
am i too stoopid to enjoy ann quin? maybe maybe not?
Fiebre Tropical by Julián Delgado Lopera
was i too old for this one or just too depressed???
Trust by Hernan Diaz
solid if unoriginal “original literary fiction”
Ex Machina Book #1 by Brian K Vaughan & Tony Harris
a fine read, especially as it only cost me a pound (english for money)
my body would be the kindest of strangers by fiona helmsley
exceptional collection of writing you should definitely read
The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings by James Baldwin
2010 collection of [some of?] Baldwin’s uncollected short pieces
Triumph Of The Now 