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Reading, among others, Ourageous Horizon by Adrien Bosc (trans Frank Wynne) A converted cargo ship, the Paul-Lemerle, left Marseille on a voyage to the Caribbean, fleeing Vichy France and the devastation of the war. The ship was filled with immigrants from the East, exiled Spanish Republicans...

hd's stuff is variable in quality, the best stuff just perfectly pitched. The book Square Haunting has an excelelnt chapter on her and her entanglements with Pound and others, I think Hulme is one of my favourite imagists Autumn BY T. E. HULME A touch of cold in the Autumn night— I walked...

Just finished the Daša Drndíc - if you wanted a gateway into her larger books I think this it. A series of vignettes ostensibly about displaced former Yugoslavs in Canada. So you get bits about people with multiple degrees having to stuff envelopes to make a living but mixed with mediations on...

The Richardson 4th volume of Picasso for me.

Good to see @you back. Just finished Homesickness - I really liked most of it but nothing quite reached the peaks of Young Skins which I re-read recently. I don’t know if you’ve read Wendy Erskine, a writer from Belfast - I’m a huge fan and have seen her read a few times. Both Sweet Home and the...

Any chance of narrowing that down a tad? What kind of detective? Because you can’t go wrong with Simenon’s Maigret but you might want something a bit more modern or gritty.

I’m on holiday so I’ve got time to start a whole bunch of things I’ve been looking forward to - Edmund’s Lights, Adam Scovell’s latest Nettles, Canzone di Guerre by Daša Drndríc, re-reading Forster’s Where Angels Fear to Tread, Brookner on 19th C French art critics plus a novel by Bros Goncourt.

Yeah. The Sellout is the only one I could think of that’s got a similar vibe to Sidney Poitier.

I finished the short stories last week - they were enjoyable enough but I think he’s better over the long sprawl of a novel. Of all of the ones I’ve read so far, I enjoyed Poitier the most but it’s not the most savage. Not read Trees yet. He is, of course, a very funny writer like a modern day...

My copy arrived today. Handsome

I’d have loved to come but I can’t see me getting up to town on a school night.

Ordered.

Well…wow. that was a cracking try to snatch victory.

The narrator of Dance writes about Burton. I think the book you’re referring to was his one on Aubrey’s Brief Lives. the full epigraph from The Afternoon Men “A]s if they had heard that enchanted horn of Astolpho, that English duke in Ariosto, which never sounded but all his auditors were mad...

I have been re-reading a few things - Powell’s first novel The Afternoon Men which I liked a lot more this time - it made me think of people like Tao Lin and Ben Lerner - people trying to nail what now feels like complete with all the communication at cross purposes, the ennui, fear and failure...

I saw a production a few years ago - it was a weirdly dissonant experience- the performances were great and done big gags but lots that I just didn’t find funny at all - I get sacred cows and all that but I couldn’t buy into it.

Influx are discounting a load of his back catalogue, they don’t have the rights to Erasure - Faber do. He seemed pissed off with F&F as they’ve done nothing with it for twenty years. https://www.influxpress.com/shop?category=SALE

There were those post rock bands who tapped into that motorik chugging thing - some of Tortoise at their best, Trans Am, a few others whose names escape me

What I love about the Berkamp goal is his reaction. He covers his face like he can’t believe what he’s just done. It put them into the final, I think. My mate was covering the match for Dutch AP and he said that all the fans left the stadium as a great orange swirl all whistling Perfect Day - it...