Better Than Friday - 138 (Patreon)

Good evening everyone, how goes? 

The attached photo is of a publication that just arrived in the mail from the kind poet 

Tim Grayson. 

It features my very first published work - ever. Just some short simple reviews. 

I never thought the first thing I'd have my writing published in would look so excellent. Hats off to him and Fox Books. 

1. Currently Reading - The Road by Cormac McCarthy 

Great, but goddamn this one is grim even for me. 

McCarthy is in the ether right now with the recent announcement of his forthcoming books being published by Knopf, so I figured I should catch the hell up. It's taken me long enough. 

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A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece.A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other.The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, “each the other’s world entire,” are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.

- Goodreads

2. Because I Had To 

We are 138. 

We are 138. 

We aaaaarrre 138. 

3. Warm Leatherette

A rendition of a classic inspired by J.G Ballard's 'Crash' with some familiar faces. 

4. Food and Shoes - The essentials according to Cormac McCarthy

Supplementary material for the coming review. I feel it must be easily one of the most famous interviews with an author in history. 

5. Wallace Stevens Reads his poems

Now THAT is a reading voice.