A few weeks ago I interviewed a former member of the 1970s dance troupe Pan's People about her new memoir, a serious and sad exploration of abuse, addiction, exploitation and, thankfully, recovery and escape. A serious listen, if your kind of thing: triumphofthenow.com/2026/02/13/a...

Just received an email response from a job application I sent in 2018. lovely stuff.

I read a fun Soho picaresque about lives lived chasing literature and reflect on how, losing sight of that, few things can quite make the neon shine as bright: triumphofthenow.com/2026/02/09/t...

Trailer for 2026 live show here - Brighton and Glasgow tickets available now, London and other dates announced soon: triumphofthenow.com/2026/02/06/t...

read some classic fun, frothy, French fiction. Tho, the four musketeers are not great guys. triumphofthenow.com/2026/02/04/t...

i absolutely do not want to think about all i've achieved.

Read an incredible novel recently- So Much Blue by Percival Everett: triumphofthenow.com/2026/01/28/s...

some thoughts on a fun thriller i read on holiday last month: triumphofthenow.com/2026/01/26/t...

Is Charlaine Harris America’s only living novelist??? triumphofthenow.com/2026/01/21/d...

Read a breathtakingly brilliant collection of dirty realism-type stories by Ursula Le Guin: triumphofthenow.com/2026/01/19/s...

a disappointing finale to a disappointing trilogy that i read all of anyway: triumphofthenow.com/2026/01/14/t...

Continued my recent reading on the comedian Lenny Bruce - a funny, interesting autobiography, but containing a few gaps (as most memoirs do...): triumphofthenow.com/2026/01/12/h...

I read Hannah Arendt’s THE ORIGINS OF TOTALITARIANISM, which is currently being re-serialised as “The News”: triumphofthenow.com/2026/01/09/t...

"But it is precisely by thus quoting an isolated line that one multiplies its power of attraction tenfold." #SundaySentence from The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, revised by D.J. Enright triumphofthenow.com/2015/10/22/t...

"Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to kindness and wisdom we make promises only; pain we obey." #SundaySentence from In Search of Lost Time IV, Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust, trans by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, revised by D.J. Enright triumphofthenow.com/2016/10/26/s...

Here is a really nice review of YOU RUIN IT WHEN YOU TALK that Scott wrote *before* we became friends triumphofthenow.com/2023/01/18/y...

Looking, quietly, ahead - triumphofthenow.com/2026/01/07/2... “2026 hopes/dreams/plans – Triumph Of The Now”

Unlike most of you I waited until 2025 was actually over to collate my entirely self-focused thoughts on it: triumphofthenow.com/2026/01/05/2...

Reading some comedy from another era: triumphofthenow.com/2025/12/09/t...

latest post on TriumphOfTheNow.com is an interview with poet, artist, musician, Keith Woodhouse: triumphofthenow.com/2025/11/21/i...

"clearly, calmly, with nuance and lyrical beauty…" Thank you to @scottmanleyhadley.bsky.social for this wonderful review of my new #poetry collection, "The Exhaust of Dreams Adulterated." A view from a London commuter train and more consideration than is generous. Thank you. #poems #bookreview

Read some excellent digressive nonfiction - Question 7 by Richard Flanagan: triumphofthenow.com/2025/11/19/q...

Read a great collection of autobiographical poetry by Jane Rosenberg LaForge, published by Broadstone Books: triumphofthenow.com/2025/11/13/t...

Some thoughts on the excellent COMMON by Nikolai Duffy, published by Goldsmiths Press: triumphofthenow.com/2025/11/12/c...

latest interview up is with Donovan Reyes and discusses writing suburbia, pilgrimages to Madrid and the creative act: triumphofthenow.com/2025/11/07/i...

“Why do good things happen to bad people?” I snigger to myself as I strut away with one of the best three tape hauls of my cassette-buying life to date.

🍓SCOTT MANLEY HADLEY🍓 Opening for us in November is an act that clearly got the assignment, it’s @scottmanleyhadley.bsky.social Please note, we are unaware of the dog will be joining us as well but 🤞 Tickets below 👇 #CoherentComedy

I read a surprisingly lovely pop history coffee table book some online strangers sent me to comment on: triumphofthenow.com/2025/10/14/t...

Read an incredible, hefty, brief novel about loss in all its kinds - loss of self, of hope, of love, of life... Every Time We Say Goodbye by Ivana Sajko: triumphofthenow.com/2025/10/10/e...

I liked (but once again failed to love) a book by M John Harrison - this time while spending a long weekend solo with an infant on a boat: triumphofthenow.com/2025/10/08/l...

a great pamphlet from @monitorbooks.bsky.social

Absolutely brilliant poetry on archives, identify, research and artistic experimentation- coal by Remi Graves: triumphofthenow.com/2025/10/06/c...

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...