20 posts tagged

fiction

Colin Barrett - 'Wild Houses'

Colin Barrett - 'Wild Houses'

A short-story radiant's first novel. It's worth reading and stands out.

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Susan Griffin - 'Out of Silence, Sound. Out of Nothing, Something - A Writer's Guide'

Susan Griffin - 'Out of Silence, Sound. Out of Nothing, Something - A Writer's Guide'

A brilliant little book that packs a lot of humanistic and powerful advice for all writers.

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Megan Nolan - 'Acts of Desperation'

Megan Nolan - 'Acts of Desperation'

A fiction book that borders very much on human experiences.

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Jeanine Basinger and Sam Wasson - 'Hollywood, the Oral History'

Jeanine Basinger and Sam Wasson - 'Hollywood, the Oral History'

A huge chunk of Hollywood history, from the 1920s to the current day. Expect anecdotes.

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Jason McBride - 'Eat Your Mind, The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker'

Jason McBride - 'Eat Your Mind, The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker'

A breathing and passionate biography about a very important modern Western writer.

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Geoff Dembicki - 'The Petroleum Papers, Inside the Far-Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change'

Geoff Dembicki - 'The Petroleum Papers, Inside the Far-Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change'

One of the most prescient books at this point in time shows who covered up the climate catastrophe and why.

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Emmanuel Carrère - 'Yoga'

Emmanuel Carrère - 'Yoga'

On a silent retreat, meditation, yoga, writing, sex, and life come into a head and leaves it via these words.

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Peter Richardson - 'Savage Journey - Hunter S. Thompson and the Weird Road to Gonzo'

Peter Richardson - 'Savage Journey - Hunter S. Thompson and the Weird Road to Gonzo'

A pleasant read about an unpleasant and groundbreaking person.

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David S. Wills - 'High White Notes - The Rise and Fall of Gonzo Journalism'

David S. Wills - 'High White Notes - The Rise and Fall of Gonzo Journalism'

A chronological, rhythmically bouncy, critical, statistical, and at-times interesting ride into Hunter S. Thompson's writing.

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Angela Davis - 'An Autobiography'

Angela Davis - 'An Autobiography'

This Black Panther's autobiography is today even more explosive than when it was first released.

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Michelle Glazer - 'fretwork'

Michelle Glazer - 'fretwork'

This poetry collection reeks of nature and repetition (in a good way) but is not memorable.

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Lotta Fristorp - 'Benny - Drevet, döden'

Lotta Fristorp - 'Benny - Drevet, döden'

En kraftfull uppgörelse med de som fegt drev Fredriksson till sin död.

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Ben Cardew - 'Daft Punk's Discovery, The Future Unfurled'

Ben Cardew - 'Daft Punk's Discovery, The Future Unfurled'

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Julian Sancton - 'Madhouse at the End of the Earth'

Julian Sancton - 'Madhouse at the End of the Earth'

An extremely wild and entertaining adventure about humanity, life, and death. Men, huh?

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Genesis P. Orridge - 'Nonbinary'

Genesis P. Orridge - 'Nonbinary'

An interesting and slightly nauseating view of P. Orridge's life.

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Josh Cohen - 'How to Live What to Do'

Josh Cohen - 'How to Live What to Do'

An introspective and mind-broadening book by a psychoanalyst who writes of other books.

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Will McPhail – ‘In - A Graphic Novel’

Will McPhail – ‘In - A Graphic Novel’

This is a masterpiece about the human condition, in graphic-novel form.

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Excerpts from Rosa Rankin-Gee's 'Dreamland'

Excerpts from Rosa Rankin-Gee's 'Dreamland'

Some quotes that I collected from this wondrously human book.

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Rosa Rankin-Gee - 'Dreamland'

Rosa Rankin-Gee - 'Dreamland'

My review of this beautiful semi-fictional novel.

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Anthony Bourdain and Laurie Woolever - 'World Travel'

Anthony Bourdain and Laurie Woolever - 'World Travel'

My review of a rock ‘n’ roll-meets-Lonely Planet travel guide consisting of Bourdain’s musings on TV, modern-day comments on places that featured on his TV shows, and features from elsewhere.

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