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Consistently better commentary than bbc tv - I loathe Jenas’ contributions.

French can’t defend crosses - two well taken headers but both should have been cut out.

Just finished his Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again - reckon it’d be right up a lot of Dissensian’s streets - has a touch of the uncanny, post industrial melancholy, really good writing about shabby bits of England - like an Iain Sinclair who can actually structure a novel.

Morata goal was a peach. Maybe the crowd will get off his case now.

Why thank you. Not quite sure what I did to get cancelled in the first place. I think Edith is a mini movie - the shifts of perspectives “Women he has wanted grow old too soon He tilts their tired faces Gently to the spoon”

Tea’s comment takes on an added layer of irony after today. oh and news just in Johnson accepts his apology. The dogs bark and the caravan moves on

It was the first famous Vietnam reportage book and probably got a free pass on some its stylistic glitches. In Pharoah’s Army and The Things They Carried are two that stick vaguely in my memory as working better for me.

I feel like that about Heart of Darkness - the longest short book I’ve ever read (and then re-read about four times. It never gets easier)

Don’t invoke me in all of this. I actually studied DiV for my A level and remember it well but I think Corpsey is right often we have our ready made reasons borne of long gone readings which are merely wisps of memories.

Saw a peregrine last night while I was warming up for a race - just sitting there on a telegraph pole - with a fuck off imperiousness. about half a mile up the road is a great big community of crows that make a great racket as they head home of an evening. Put me in mind of a Clare poem i think...

Looking at mine now, my first thought is there’s not much wrong with the list except I’d have more literature in translation and most of those writers would be women

It’s the kind of detail that you notice when cycling- the ridges and folds of the land that travelling in a car flattens out. Also most of my routes are quiet roads and lanes - the tracks that have essentially been pathways forever as opposed to bulldozed A roads. That sense of a link between...

Blue is the great personal work with the heft of emotion, raw and open to the world; Hissing is cool, languid, like Joan Didion - I listen to Hissing more but love Blue with the same fondness of first love.

The phrase is from Oedipus Rex - he ends the play blinded realising he's killed his dad and shagged his mum - he's got every reason to be miserable. he had it for a while, the difference between him and GG or whoever is he did these things unknowingly - Glitter knew he was doing wrong,. The...

Anyone read the Higgs William Blake v The World book - heard Andy Miller raving about it on Backlisted.

There’s a blue plaque by the Playhouse Theatre at the bottom of Northumberland Avenue - I like to think of him mooching along the Thames down there.

One of my long term projects - I’m reading all her stuff in chronological order. I think she’s a genius - very good at the small and crippling indignities of ordinary life. Some of them I have done as audiobooks- she has very good people reading her stuff - Fiona Shaw, Prunella Scales, Anna...

Good to see Brookner on there

Don’t know about the Olson book but I would really recommend Leviathan, or The Whale by Philip Hoare as a non fiction companion. And Laurie Anderson’s Songs and Stories from Moby Dick - I remember seeing her at The Barbican performing it after re-Reading MD and being really impressed.