God Help The Child by Toni Morrison
sadness, cruelty, oppression, magical realism, and a writer in their mid-80s putting out possibly the best depiction of the millennial experience to date
Tag: writing
FEATURE INTERVIEW: Pierce Day, author of A Phone of the Artist as a Young Man
author Pierce Day responds to a series of questions about his novel A PHONE OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN
TEN WORDS OR FEWER INTERVIEW: Louise McLaughlin, author of Discovery
a chat with Louise McLaughlin, author of Discovery
A Phone of the Artist as a Young Man by Pierce Day – PART FOUR OF FOUR
am i bitter? am i jealous? am i over the hill??? – a four part review concludes
A Phone of the Artist as a Young Man by Pierce Day – PART THREE OF FOUR
closer to the text, the faults fall away – a four part review continues
A Phone of the Artist as a Young Man by Pierce Day – PART TWO OF FOUR
LITERATURE DIDN’T DIE WITH JAMES JOYCE: a four-post special series continues
A Phone of the Artist as a Young Man by Pierce Day – PART ONE OF FOUR
I WOULD HAVE SOLD MY DIRTY SOUL TO WRITE THIS BOOK: a four-post special series begins
TEN WORDS OR FEWER INTERVIEW: Jessica Aike, author of This Thing in My Head
a chat with Jessica Aike, author of This Thing in My Head
TEN WORDS OR FEWER INTERVIEW: Karl Lorenz Willett, author of A Good Life: The Perception of Perfection
a short chat with Karl Lorenz Willett, author of A Good Life: The Perception of Perfection
Provincial Squinting At The Mercury Orgy by Jai Knight
an intriguing prose and poetry collection that is deceptively simple or simply deceptive
TEN WORDS OR FEWER INTERVIEW: George Carter, author of Beyond Boundaries
George Carter, author of Beyond Boundaries, answers some questions
TEN WORDS OR FEWER INTERVIEW: Jai Knight, author of Provincial Squinting at the Mercury Orgy
a chat with Jai Knight, author of Provincial Squinting at the Mercury Orgy
A Man & Two Women by Doris Lessing
i read a brilliant, flawless, collection of stories
TEN WORDS OR FEWER INTERVIEW: Matt Nagin, author of The Book of Outcasts
Matt Nagin answers some questions in ten words or fewer
Love You Forever by Robert Munsch & Sheila McGraw
i read a devastatingly beautiful book for children
TEN WORDS OR FEWER INTERVIEW: Stephen D Owen, author of Iceni: The Year of Sacrifice
interview with Stephen D Owen, author of Iceni: The Year of Sacrifice
A Dream Wants Waking By Lydia Kwa
i enjoyed this chaotic novel but never worked out if it was in control or not…
LUKA: A Novel by Ian Bancroft
an interesting novel about the horrors of intergenerational sectarian conflict
TEN WORDS OR FEWER INTERVIEW: J.S. Morton, author of You’re Gone
interview with J.S. Morton, author of You’re Gone
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
some thoughts and questions raised by Wharton’s wintry non-wonderland
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
James Bond 007: COLD by John Gardner
an awful book anyone should be ashamed to have read
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…
The Middlemen: A Satire by Christine Brooke-Rose
pointed gags from the 1960s about things that haven’t changed
Trouble With Lichen by John Wyndham
the trouble with trouble with lichen is that it’s best read half-asleep and mostly i read awake
A Haunted House by Virginia Woolf
there’s a reason Woolf didn’t collate this story collection in her own lifetime…
Gnomon by Nick Harkaway
a giant book that offers a giant good time
Minor Detail by Adania Shibli
a serious novel that reminds us, again, of the cost of our silences
video – poetry, stripper trousers, hairloss, napoleon complex: smh live stand-up
it’s scott manley hadley aka SOLID BALD
Whale Oil (Monthly Chapbooks #2) by Tempest Miller
Tempest Miller’s second monthly chapbook – a brave if not brilliant series
Finding Your Comic Genius by Adam Bloom
an interesting book on writing comedy that doesn’t try to make you laugh
god made my face edited by Hilton Als
a book of essays about James Baldwin; a treat for anyone with a soul
Death Egg by Nathaniel Duggan
the publisher behind Liver Mush returns with more poetry almost as good as Liver Mush
Talking At The Gates: A Life of James Baldwin by James Campbell
a solid and non hagiographic literary biography
Monaco by Juliet Jacques
pointless, self-indulgent, felt like it took less time to read than to write… in short, I loved it
Against the Written Word by Ian F. Svenonius
a gen xer performing cynicism without realising it *has* gone out of style
My 2023? Some good books and trips but mostly a waste of time!
the best part was when i spent a full day as an unpaid boom mic operator
Malcolm Lowry: A Preface To His Fiction by Richard K. Cross
a fun read for a Lowry fan but probably little interest for others
Joan Didion: The Last Interview
oh yes i didion’t
A Handbook of Disappointed Fate by Anne Boyer
a great (as in “very good” not “large”) collection of prose from an acclaimed american poet
Call For The Dead by John Le Carré
are you a #bondboy or #smileyman?
The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami
stream of consciousness response to reading an illustrated short story
notes on a radical pamphlet #5: the reproduction of daily life by Fredy Perlman
another entry in a series of writings on short political texts
Space Crone by Ursula K Le Guin
read a little guin
POETRY MONTH: Stefan Mohamed INTERVIEW
the FIRST TriumphOfTheNow.com DM interview!!!
excerpts from The Imagination on Trial: BS Johnson interviewed by Alan Burns
excerpts from a BS Johnson interview
Bloodchild by Octavia E Butler
exceptionally good short story collection
Three Books About Books By Bookish Lads
on ian flemming, jackie kerouac, karlo knausgaard
Triumph Of The Now 