Malcolm Lowry News Today

>> anthony: some time ago something crawled, or slithered, or grew like a fungus. something that started small, got bigger, lurched like a swamp thing out of the mud and moist earth and humid nights of the delta. then, it took over the world. so next time some smart ass foreigner, horrified by our latest ham-fisted foreign policy blunder wonders out loud, "what good is america?" well, you can always pipe up that the blues, rock n roll, r&b, and soul all came out of this place -- one st...

day people fight to live. all too often they lose that battle. the magnificent, heartbreakingly beautiful country. music and food. any uniquely mexican darkly funny, deeply felt worldview. right down there. cuddled up beneath us, our brother from another mother. while it is beautiful. felt the cool rain noma show love. holy mother of santa muerta. please protect my stash of cocaine. let it not be interfered with by the cops. where the competition let any who would mess with me. be kill...

This place one state mississippi. I took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha la la la la sha la la la la la sha la la la la sha la la la la la la geno right now were in the middle of downtown jackson. Farish street. Anthony it is a street with a lot of history. What did it used to be like back in the day . Geno the street was packed with folks. Folks all over, they had their own rest...

The son of the novelist Anthony Powell, he forged a career collaborating with the likes of Alan Bennett and Michael Palin

Jay Caspian Kang comments on how it’s becoming harder to read the old-fashioned way, and gives his take on new e-reading platforms and devices such as the BOOX Palma.

It is common to soothe distress with alcohol consumption, but it can be a gateway to abuse that has enormously negative consequences. It is a preventable risk factor in suicide, violence, traffic accidents and clearly worsening physical and mental health

Mike McCormack seems to be tuned in to a different cosmic frequency than the rest of us. Whilst almost all of his work begins in a small, sleepy village in County Mayo on the west coast of Ireland, he has a unique way of making familiar landscapes and usually quiet lives extraordinary and surreal.

It is hard to see chapters, such is their banal inevitability. The chapter possesses the trick of vanishing while in the act of serving its various purposes.

And I don’t know how you people think the train can move if someone is wedged half inside and half outside of it, how I’m supposed to lose my job, how I’m supposed to kill you because you wedged yourself in like that—because you decided, even if you didn’t say it, to say ‘I’m number one, and everyone else on this train is a zero’ and ‘I get to hold people up because I can’t wait another five minutes,’ or ‘Everybody has to wait for me, everybody has to be late to their job...

Finding fun, getting lost in an epic and taking a first peek at science fiction ... Sathnam Sanghera, Elif Shafak, Sarah Waters and more make their reading resolutions for 2024