more blog content on the films I watched this Summer (not many): triumphofthenow.com/2025/10/01/j...

i read this engaging and arguably hopeful pop history book on the inevitability of societal collapse: triumphofthenow.com/2025/09/29/f...

I recently had a chat with Daniel Farr from Sit Down For Stand Up about starting out in comedy and the various paths one can take: triumphofthenow.com/2025/09/23/s...

i'm so poor that when I browse the Michelin guide i'm only looking at Bib Gourmand

Got some “music” on that is just industrial noise with someone playing drums over the top and I pointed to the speakers and said to my one year old, “This is really good stuff, by the way.”

I read some old horny Le Carré: triumphofthenow.com/2025/09/10/t...

Only now outside for the first time today and I was almost surprised the world still existed.

half wrote this blog almost a month ago and can't be arsed to finish it properly so here it is with some commentary on why i haven't written more and what i've been doing instead. thank u thank u thank u triumphofthenow.com/2025/09/03/l...

Latest interview up on the blog with Chris Bennett, author of Windslash—The Last Elemental: triumphofthenow.com/2025/08/22/t...

'this beautiful, tight, collection that leads one to think about youth and ageing, about regret and shame, about blissful celebration of one’s chiefest memories…' A FOREIGN COUNTRY IS THE PAST by Fernando Sdrigotti reviewed by @scottmanleyhadley.bsky.social triumphofthenow.com/2025/08/18/a...

Up in Edinburgh later this week!

I read another phenomenal digressive memoir, this one using the lens of media literacy to explore the fears of sleepwalking into legacies of toxic masculinity(ies?) when transitioning: Vantage Points by Chase Joynt: triumphofthenow.com/2025/08/11/v...

New interview up with Claire Moore, author of It’s OK To Wobble: triumphofthenow.com/2025/08/08/t...

I read an interesting and meticulously researched history book that bizarrely presumes its readers believe in white supremacist fantasies: triumphofthenow.com/2025/08/06/b...

Fucking hell LinkedIn!!!

Absolutely brilliant and one of the best things I’ve read in a long time - Notes Made While Falling by Jenn Ashworth: triumphofthenow.com/2025/08/04/n...

New interview with Feyisayo Anjorin: triumphofthenow.com/2025/08/01/t...

Live weird hairless performance coming to Waterloo in October: triumphofthenow.com/2025/07/30/l...

I read a great metatexual(ish) historical novella - West by Carys Davies: triumphofthenow.com/2025/07/28/w...

Whoever told me the British Library is “clothing optional” is a fucking liar

Writer & Comedian Steve McLean joins for my latest interview to discuss STEALING DEEP PURPLE: triumphofthenow.com/2025/07/25/t...

I don’t know what a Canticle is, but I thoroughly enjoyed A Canticle for Leibowitz, which is The Name of the Rose meets The Road. The Name of the Road: triumphofthenow.com/2025/07/24/a...

“ Q: Where is somewhere you’ve been to that you will never return to? Why? A: Everywhere. I am 82.“ Quite possibly the wildest entry yet in my short form interview series - Sheila Muckle, “clean romance” author: triumphofthenow.com/2025/07/18/t...

Yes, he’s got a *great* name, but can any collection of short humorous prose stand the sociocultural changes of a century??? - notes on The Wild Body by Wyndham Lewis: triumphofthenow.com/2025/07/15/t...

New interview up with drag and cabaret performer Michael Twaits on new book THE ART OF DRAG: triumphofthenow.com/2025/07/08/t...

My video interview series continues with Matt Nagin: triumphofthenow.com/2025/07/05/v...

Another great short form interview, this time with Barracuda Guarisco aka Kris Hall aka other names: triumphofthenow.com/2025/07/04/t...

I read a beautiful book about English ecclesiastical architecture by an absolute poindexter: triumphofthenow.com/2025/07/03/f...

I read a beautiful book about English ecclesiastical architecture by an absolute poindexter: triumphofthenow.com/2025/07/03/f...

short form interview up with Marina Vantara, author of MISSION HOMO LIBERATUS: THE BEGINNING triumphofthenow.com/2025/07/01/t...

i love posthumous books. But not like this. They've done Joan Didion dirty: triumphofthenow.com/2025/06/30/n...

New short form text interview up with Tim Whitehouse, author of The Tender Wall: triumphofthenow.com/2025/06/27/t...

Too many notes on an often beautiful novel that doesn’t quite coalesce around itself due to a bizarre denial of online ubiquity in the early 2010s: Small Worlds by Caleb Azumah Nelson - triumphofthenow.com/2025/06/25/s...

yeah I’m into golden era hip hop deep cuts

Short form interview from last week with the brilliant Barbara Adair, whose book IN THE SHADOW OF THE SPRINGS I SAW is one of my favourite reads of the past few years triumphofthenow.com/2025/06/13/t...

Video interview up now with US criminal defence attorney and author Frank Abrams on injustice, greed, politics and gun culture - an absolute privilege to get to have this conversation: triumphofthenow.com/2025/06/07/v...

I read some frothy, pacy, SF trash that very much succeeds on its unambitious terms: triumphofthenow.com/2025/06/02/l...

Latest post on the blog is a short form interview with Rebecca Gransden, author of Figures Crossing The Field Towards the Group: triumphofthenow.com/2025/05/30/t...

Happy to feature on the ace blog Triumph of the Now, where I talk in “Ten Words or Fewer”. Mostly fewer. Many thanks to @scottmanleyhadley.bsky.social. triumphofthenow.com/2025/05/30/t...

My short form interview series continues with naturism, Christianity and cold water swimming - go meet Duncan Heenan, author of Lead Us Not: triumphofthenow.com/2025/05/23/t...

Arguably (argued by me) I just read the best collection of flash fiction ever written: triumphofthenow.com/2025/05/22/a...

A feature interview with Pierce Day, author of A Phone of the Artist as a Young Man: triumphofthenow.com/2025/05/20/f...

Blog posts return to a normal size with some thoughts/reflections on Nova, a Samuel R. Delany novel from 1968: triumphofthenow.com/2025/05/19/n...

New short form interview up on the blog with Louise McLaughlin, author of Discovery: triumphofthenow.com/2025/05/16/t...

Final part of my deep dive exploring new novel A PHONE OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN: triumphofthenow.com/2025/05/15/a...

Deep dive into a recent example of literary lad fiction continues with some textual commentary and an acknowledgement that the faults slip away, up close: triumphofthenow.com/2025/05/14/a...

A deep dive into the literary lad canon and how new novel A PHONE OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN hits and misses as part of that tradition: triumphofthenow.com/2025/05/13/a...

Today in PART ONE of a FOUR PART deep dive on A PHONE OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN - a compelling, frustrating, fascinating read that epitomises (for good and ill) the vaulted literary aspirations of the young literary lad in the experimental tradition: triumphofthenow.com/2025/05/12/a...

New interview on the blog with Jessica Aike, author of This Thing in My Head : Break Free, Stand In Your Power and Self-Actualise - wp.me/p3g9wT-796

AI is trash and it’s fine for people to just say so. It’s a giant plagiarism machine that’s built on theft, steeped in anti-worker ideology, fueled by environmental destruction, and intricately tied to the hopes, dreams & schemes of the richest fascists on the planet.