How is it possible to read the work of the unashamedly young when you have left that club and are happy to have done so? When reading Ben Brooks I had the sense that another young man was calling for attention. Not mine. Not the attention of the generations that have gone before – except […]
Category Archives: Book Reviews
December
12
Ben Brooks and The Kasahara School of Nihilism – Youth for youth’s sake. (book review)
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December
01
Call for Submissions: I’d like to review your self published literary novel.
posted by lisathatcher
Hello there all my dear readers and fellow writers, This blog has grown quite dramatically in the last twelve months. It has become a respected review source, so much so that my name is now added to media and press events listings for music, theatre and film – which means in the future I will […]
November
19
Emily L. – Marguerite Duras and the agony of words. (Book Review)
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Her body, hidden before, is now visible, visible in its mortality. Her body is dressed like a girl’s, in the worn out clothes of youth; on her fingers, the diamonds and gold of her people in Devon. But under the dresses and the skin, death is naked; under the eyes, too, with their pure, shy […]
November
14
Pith and Amber – the watery words of Carah A. Naseem (Book review)
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I’m not even sure what compelled me to purchase Pith and Amber. Perhaps I was entranced by the idea of the beautiful cover? I wanted to read some books from Fugue State Press who publish beautiful works of experimental fiction, and for some reason I purchased this book. The first thing that strikes me when […]
November
13
Try I Bark – Patrick Farmer and the delicate brush against the surface of all things.(Book Review)
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“This book is written to be read out loud and outside” Patrick Farmer I had not planned in not planning to meet anything other than myself- I write so I can be silent though silence begs to be heard Beauty exists. Just as beauty exists in the depths, the fissures, the unplummetable and the unfathomable, […]
How to read Lacan: Zizek on Lacan – Part 4. Troubles with the Real: Lacan as a Viewer of Alien. (pt Three)
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This is a post based on Slavoj Zizek’s little booklet How to read Lacan. For the previous post to this one, go here. For the first in the series, go here. Zizek goes on to cite some beautiful passages of Shakespeare to describe what he means here by Lacan’s “real”. He also cites an example from […]
How to read Lacan: Zizek on Lacan – Part 4. Troubles with the Real: Lacan as a Viewer of Alien. (pt Two)
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This is a post based on Slavoj Zizek’s little booklet How to read Lacan. For the previous post to this one, go here. This is not my writing – this is my attempt to condense sections of the book so we can understand them together. For the first in the series, go here. It is important […]
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry – Rachel Joyce and the lightness of tragedy. (Booker Long List)
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It must be the same all over England. People were buying milk, or filling their cars with petrol, or even posting letters. And what no one else knew was the appalling weight of the thing they were carrying inside. The superhuman effort it took sometimes to be normal, and a part of things that appeared both easy […]
The Lighthouse – Alison Moore feels her way in the dark by scent. (Booker Prize Short List)
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“Do you know,” said his mother, “How much you bore me?” There was a pause and then his father quietly packed away the picnic. Snapping shut the cool-box lid, he stood and looked at his wife. Futh watched the gulls fighting over the remains of their lunch, and then he looked down at his hand […]
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