Year Zero:
The first 12 months of turn & work
The Latest
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New Book Review
First Love by Gwendoline Riley
First Love is uncomfortable reading. Gwendoline Riley’s skill at depicting abusive and horrifying relationships makes it hard but rewarding.
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New Book Review
The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
The Safekeep is historical literary romance, which is not generally my bag. I loved it. The less you know going in the better. I think this one is going to win a lot of awards.
Don’t Miss a Thing
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New Music
Virgin Orchestra — Banger / fragments
Iceland’s Virgin Orchestra is an experimental post-punk band with a real orchestral sound. It’s weird, aborbing and hypnotic
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new blog post
Short Fiction: November 4, 2024
Start your week off with some imagination. Here are five excellent short stories that I think are worth sharing.
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New Music
Click & Listen: November 1, 2024
This week’s Apple Music and Spotify playlists are dominated by women
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New Book Review
The Vegetarian by Han Kang, tr. by Deborah Smith
This is a beast of a book about trauma, families and personal agency. It’s haunted me for weeks since I’ve finished it.
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New Music
The music behind the music: Dead Anyway
An eclectic selection of influences from the Dead Anyway duo. Plus my two cents
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New Music
Rye — I Feel Everything EP
Rye mixes melancholy, multilingual singer/ songwriter sounds with poetry and trip-hop elements for something unique and intimate
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New Music
Pom – a craving / a great escape / more
POM put out a great album in 2023 and two fantastic songs this year. They describe their sound as ‘playful fuzzpop’, and I can’t get enough
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New Music
Tlya X An — Camel’s Back / Ninja / TXN / more
Tlya X An is wildly talented, in both her eclectic hyperpop songs and the videos for them. If you don’t know her yet, I’m sure you will soon