Reviews

Speaking from experience, a book comprised of already-published blog posts isn’t the easiest sell. Amateur writers think they can just copypaste two years worth of rants against fat girls and half-baked pickup advice into a book and it’ll sell like pot at Burning Man. While it’s true that a compilation book requires less effort to put [...]

This is the worst book I’ve ever read. I first heard of Killing Yourself to Live during my stay in Seattle: a guy who picked me up told me that he was retracing the journey Chuck Klosterman took across America, investigating the spots where various rock stars died, and his next stop was the mansion where [...]

This debut book from the Captain Power, a hybrid memoir/self-help title, is a book I can’t help but like in spite of its obvious flaws. Work Out, Lose Weight and Stop Being Single is chock-full of valuable info and is pretty entertaining on its own, enough so that I can overlook the book’s weak editing and [...]

What can you say about a book that you don’t like, but still accomplishes its goals? Life is Short and So is This Book is an airy-fairy book full of platitudes on how to improve your life: learn how to focus, try not to worry, don’t screw up your life by getting arrested or knocking [...]

NOTE: In preparation for another book review I’ve written for tomorrow, I’m reposting this article, originally published at In Mala Fide on November 16, 2011. *** This is a best-of collection of articles and artwork from OVO, a zine founded and edited by friend of the blog Trevor Blake, “a public record of [his] interests and inquiries.” It’s [...]

NOTE: As Vox Day referenced this article in his recent review of Infinite Jest, I’m reposting it here; it originally appeared at In Mala Fide on February 29, 2012. Books like The New York Trilogy are the reason why I completely abandoned trying to get my books released by a “real” publisher: the New York literary [...]

NOTE: With Alternative Right now publishing articles by Simon Sheppard, I’m re-posting my review of his anti-feminist pamphlet All About Women, originally published at In Mala Fide on February 21, 2012. Sheppard’s prosecution at the hands of the British government for politically incorrect speech is an absolute travesty and deserves to be better known. This is the end result [...]