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Here’s what we’ll do - you carry on and I’ll ignore you. Others may have something more substantial to add to this but I don’t think I have anything to add here.

I think you start from a false premise and you’ve tried this line before and didn’t get what you wanted so you’ve set up a new thread rehashing the same stuff. It’s all a bit old fashioned isn’t it, this masculine/feminine behaviours? It doesn’t reflect how I think or see the world. Yes, I...

Not thinking in reductive binaries for a start.

Behaviour. Just behaviour without any pre modification.

As I said above post 9/11 he went well and truly wonky but he did recant. He admitted he was wrong. I’d refer you back to @Corpsey post - War Against Cliche and Experience are superb examples of his non fiction. Money, London Fields, The Information may not suit everyone here but they’re burning...

That’s good, that. Yes. You have Dickens to read too.

I can imagine Amis being infra dig on here for a variety of reasons but for some of us he was a key figure - Success, Money, London Fields, Times Arrow, The Information, Experience, The War Against Cliche. He didn’t weather well into the 21st C but I think his influence still reverberates- even...

It’s a pre cynical era of writing. I still like it.

Yep that’s the one.

I started watching a documentary about him - it made me nostalgic for him. He was one of the first writers I really read everything of in my early twenties. To go back 30 years later is an eye opener. I’m reading them in chronological order - it’s interesting to see certain themes there from the...

I remember the afternoon West Ham won the play off - I’d wandered down to watch the CL final which was on in the evening to find pissed up, loved up hammers singing ‘I’m forever blowing bubbles’ all throughout the first half. A cube of a bloke hugging my mate Dave who made the mistake of opening...

Biography of X - Catherine Lacey. Think this will appeal to a few on here, I mentioned it in the slipstream thread. A biography of a shapeshifting artist told by her widow but set in an alternate United States where the South splits after 2WW. Also re-reading Vonnegut - Player Piano made me...

RM have been totally outplayed. Three up with 15 minutes to go. And the Terminator still hasn’t scored. Courtois has been the only decent Madrid player on the pitch.

City. I can’t see RM shackling that acting five. I think for RM to win everyone has to have a stellar game whereas City don’t. Thought Walker was pretty much MotM last week along with KdB. Haaland was anonymous which means he’ll be on fire tonight. Looking forward to it though. If RM do score...

Back to Sinclair - i don't think i am alone in finding that his style and manner have begun to grate - there was a recent piece in the lrb about sewers of London that was stuffed full of impenetrable prose and a high self regard as if he was in possession of some great and universal truth. When...

I think you’re right about Tilbury.

Never a bad thing to be reminded of poor old X and, by association, Pamela, both truly brilliant creations.

Just started Catherine Lacey’s Biography of X which I think probably fits into this genre - enjoying it so far https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2023/mar/29/biography-of-x-by-catherine-lacey-review-who-is-this-mysterious-artist Also reading Player Piano by Vonnegut which also probably is...

I don’t want to distract from the main thrust of this thread but that last point reminded me of Helen Wayman - British CX rider - after racing for an hour rather than the usual 45 mins allotted to women’s CX races- when asked how it went she replied ‘well, my ovaries didn’t fall out!’