TEN WORDS OR FEWER INTERVIEW: L. J. Robson, author of The Boy with the Thorn in His Side
A chat with L. J. Robson, author of The Boy with the Thorn in His Side
Tag: youth
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
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
video – 20th June 2008: scott manley hadley Plays & Sings ‘THE BARON SHITE SESSION’
a tape recording of 19yo smh singing has been found and digitised
To Rest Our Minds & Bodies by Harriet Armstrong
preview of an excellent bildungsroman coming in 2025
Very Far Away From Anywhere Else by Ursula K Le Guin
breathtaking short and obscure naturalistic novella that works works works
England 2K State Insekt by Tempest Miller
some youthful poems someone from the internet sent me
because earth is flat: a flat earth poetry collection – scott manley hadley: live at paradise (new web series episode)
the earth is flat; if it wasn’t, why would there be a whole book of poetry presuming it was???
my father, from a distance – scott manley hadley: live at paradise (new web series episode)
Filmed at the tail end of the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto’s historic Paradise Theatre on Bloor St W, the poet,Continue Reading
The Beginning Place by Ursula K. Le Guin
a great brief obscure le guin
George’s Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl
not marvellous and definitely not medicine… or literature
Baby, Bring Back 1997 by Scott Laudati
a premium usa contemporary prose chapbook
Pleasure Beach by Helen Palmer
if u love literature like i do you’ll love this
Reunion by Fred Uhlman
a tiny novella with a lot going on
Fiebre Tropical by Julián Delgado Lopera
was i too old for this one or just too depressed???
the discworld graphic novels adapted from Terry Pratchett by Scott Rockwell & illustrated by Steven Ross
terrified i may look like i dont know how to drive
Thriftwood: A Personal History of Scouting by Alice Wickenden
great memoir about youth and scouting
Seven Fallen Feathers by Tanya Talaga
powerful stuff on racism, colonialism and botched governmental attempts to move on
The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante
yes it is good and i got to read it slightly early and for free
How The Dead Dream by Lydia Millet
i whinge about unexpected canadian expenses and read a solid novel
Every Fox Is A Rabid Fox by Harry Gallon
death, dying, dead
My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf
a dark, engaging, affecting read
The Best of A Bad Situation by Jamie Thrasivoulou
Angry poetry from the badlands of the East Midlands.
His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet
some contemporary literary fiction about scotland
Baldness Article #2
Mr Hip-Scott himself is back on the HuffPo
It ain’t easy being a bald man under thirty…
A bald man on a dance floor is as welcome as a corpse
The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante
When I read the first volume of Elena Ferrante’s lauded Neapolitan Novels series, many of the conversations being had about itContinue Reading
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon
Where is Pittsburgh? At any point while I read this novel, I could’ve looked it up. I didn’t, and I’mContinue Reading
Some Rain Must Fall: My Struggle Book Five by Karl Ove Knausgaard
It’s taken me a few more days than I’d hoped, but I’ve just finished reading the fifth book of KarlContinue Reading
The Devil in the Flesh by Raymond Radiguet
It is 1230am on a Friday night, I am (which is very rare for me) not at work, my girlfriendContinue Reading
Boyhood Island: My Struggle Book Three by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Karl Ove Knausgaard is one of my favourite writers. It would probably be fair to say that he is one of (inContinue Reading
On Janis Joplin
I discovered the music of Janis Joplin in the late Spring of my first year of university. I’d just spentContinue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 