The blurb promises vampires, loneliness and "probably blood (not the film)", and an evening in a railway arch with a drink in hand suits that sort of bill nicel

Ernest Hemingway, Nobel laureate, wrote a follow-up to Death In The Afternoon, published posthumously in the 1980s; scott manley hadley reflects

vampiric chat on live local radio (now it’s a recording)

hot flight action in a chassis-busting novel of plane crash desire

great CNF on three writers of differing levels of internal renown

a brilliantly fun giant space opera that filled my sparse down time at the Edinburgh Fringe

Wow! A minor major milestone has been hit, and my first ever long form solo show performance has received its first review! As in keeping with me (scott manley hadley) and the show itself (BALD PER…

so often what we claim as pragmatism is nothing but repression on a too-grand scale

don’t believe everything you read [on TriumphOfTheNow.com]

a lovely haunt; a structural triumph full of richly sketched characters

well this one was shit

an engaging novel from 1951 about (or of?) the dangers of homophobic repression

some hyper violent fun but not much more than that

she selly sea Shelley by the sea shore

actually an obit for my late mother-in-law, Katherine Jane Kaszas

you could travel back and forth through the whole of time and maybe not find another teenage time travel comic book better than this

No hair. No worries. Well, some worries... Alternative comedy show on mental health, hair loss, gender, money and parenting. Includes sequins, thighs, an interactive bald-themed quiz, poetry, costumes...

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a collaborative exercise in music composition; a 90second improvised vocal performance by a toddler

a 1978 collection of engaging and intriguing SF by boomer women incorrectly called Millennial Women

a cracking old school epistolary novel about racism and the publishing industry from Percival Everett and a friend

returning to the second half of a recent beastly piece of historical fiction

Rereading The Handmaid’s Tale in 2026, to be honest, feels a lot bleaker than it did the last time I looked it over, ten years ago. In part that is because of the continued rise of fascistic …

re-reading another serious and accessible classic and regretting nothing at all

this is a thing to know (landscape) stages a series of choral works interlocking and overlaying across the gallery. It begins by presenting a set of ‘knowledge system videos’; a dataset constructed fr...

wuther wuther wuther

a fun but forgettable set of space adventures

Wheelchair Access, Wheelchair Accessible Toilets

my thoughts on the first half of an incredible, beautiful, perfect book that was too physically heavy to take on an international flight

excellent CNF collection spanning several decades and several lives…

never before have i read a whole book anticipating non-existent cannibalism

a heady joyful experience, incidentally diagnosing Heathcliff with BPD

The second batch of shows for the August festival brings the running total up to 2,083 shows.

a harrowing and serious read: this is a book they give to children in Ireland

don’t mention groundhog day don’t mention groundhog day don’t mention groundhog day

it’s my kind of stuff at length oh yes please

800 brilliant unresolved pages that work work work

an excellent interview with Benjamin Schmitt, touching on a lot of important ideas

re-re-reading The Great Gatsby. It’s great. The title is a fair review.

some very serious stuff, for once

i join Sam Joseph to discuss comedy, people, technology and drugs (I like one of the four)

a flat opening to a series I’ll persist with (but only because the books are so short)

…erotic devotionals, and an argument for – and evidence of – the eternal importance of Elvis…

a beautiful, tight, novella about the way things so often crumble