My mom loves Native Americans. She read all the books with them that were available in Soviet Estonia in the 80s. The Last of the Mohicans was, and […]
Book Recomendations
‘There but for the’ by Ali Smith
Beautifully weird … or weirdly beautiful. Not quite sure, but either way, I loved this book. The back cover says: ‘There once was a man who, one night […]
Top Ten: The Best Books According to 125 Writers
I love lists. I mean not as much as Rob Gordon or Amy Santiago, but still. So I was happy to find a book called The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books in a second-hand store in my hometown.
A bit about Allen Ginsberg
I like the beatniks. It started, like for a lot of people, with Jack Kerouac’s On the Road and from there I dived into William S. Burroughs Junky. […]
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Eleanor Oliphant has learned how to survive – but not how to live. Eleanor leads a simple life. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats […]
Home Stretch by Graham Norton
Continuing with the accidental “British gay entertainer turned writer” series. This time a chat show host and fiction for a change. Graham Norton is charming, smart and funny […]
William Gibson, the godfather of Cyberspace
Borrowing from Wikipedia: William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as […]
Life in the Anthropocene
Though it can be very frustrating, I like reading books about the environment and our role in it. And as you may suspect, we play a shitty role. […]