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David Mitchell immediately springs to mind - so much so that his whole oevre has become one massive self reflexive story world with characters popping up across novels as well. I’m not surprised it’s there in old texts - the framed story device allows the writer to essentially write an...

October reading

They’re upside down or you’re standing in your head.

Enough historically big clubs havent made it through to the group stages - Althetico, Barca, Ajax from tonight for example - maybe there is a slight sea change. Although I think all four English teams are through

I think with Spurs group the top seed was Frankfurt cos they won the Europa but objectively they weren’t really a top seed team so we ended up in a league with four quite equally matched teams. As opposed to Rangers or Pilzen who between them have the worst records ever in CL qualification cos...

Well Sappho is the queen of the short poem as all we have are fragments. Anne Carson does a lovely job on translating them https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_Not,_Winter

Ian Penman’s Fassbinder book is out next year

I listened to this during lockdown - it was a very vivid and powerful listen at a discombobulating time https://www.backlisted.fm/episodes/117-william-james-the-varieties-of-religious-experience

Currently reading this - think it might be something @sufi might be interested in - it’s fucking grim. In the same way as Svetlana Alexievich is grim - that is brutal and essential. Eye witness accounts of the horrors of the forgotten war in Yemen.

I looked for it in Foyles on Charing Cross but they didn’t have it. I think I’ll survive without it.

Once it gets moving the Tempest is very good - the first act does spend a lot of time filling in back story and can feel a bit draggy but after that it rips along. Caliban is a very interesting character and the masque stuff towards the end is quite bonkers. Do not watch the film version with...

It’s one of my very favourites- I like the deliberate two genre approach and the finale is very touching. I’ve seen it done a number of times on stage and it often makes me tearful.

I just finished the Doloriad by Missouri Williams - a grim post apocalyptic novel about a bunch of interbred kids living a sort of violent Lord of the Flies life. Nasty, brutal and not really much plot. Again, writing far too much in admiration of itself. At least I’m enjoying my re-read of Proust.

This sounds just like a whole bunch of this no affect kinda writing that’s getting knocked out at the moment - like Rachel Cusk and others, often straying into the auto fiction arena. Isobel Wohl’s recent novel springs to mind, along with Sara Baume. Unless that book is short @you i might well pass.

It might just be me. You’re probably much better off trusting someone who reads more of this kind of stuff.

Not often I read something I actively dislike but wading through Alex Pheby’s second in his Mordew trilogy. I quite liked the first one - I don’t do fantasy stuff and there was enough plot and character for me to ignore all the things that annoy me - the world building in particular. But this...

Possibly one of the unfunny clowns or one of the blokes who marries Goneril and Regan at best.

Pt2 is more ragged but there’s some brilliant moments in there - there are some very dark parts in it. It doesn’t have a Hotspur (obvs) to work as a counterbalance to Hal.

Yep - it's earlier than HIV but i think you can see how it's start of his brilliance - not much comedy in there but the gage scene is funny - a production i saw had them throwing it onto a very dusty stage so that by the end of it they're all coughing in a cloud of dust