scott manley hadley

a great pamphlet from @monitorbooks.bsky.social

COAL by Remi Graves an excellent and significant chapbook of “poems and experiments”

Absolutely brilliant poetry on archives, identify, research and artistic experimentation- coal by Remi Graves: triumphofthenow.com/2025/10/06/c...

july/aug/sept movie watching round up what I was watching in July, August, September 2025

more blog content on the films I watched this Summer (not many): triumphofthenow.com/2025/10/01/j...

Omg yes you have! I moved here from hip East London four weeks before my baby was born last summer, so don’t know many people in the area. Drop me an email to my least private email address - triumph of the now at gmail dot com - and let’s arrange something

Fall of Civilizations [sic] by Paul Cooper fourteen brief histories reminding us that everything always falls apart

i read this engaging and arguably hopeful pop history book on the inevitability of societal collapse: triumphofthenow.com/2025/09/29/f...

boy do i have those

SIT DOWN FOR STANDUP PODCAST APPEARANCE smh chats naked comedy with Daniel Farr (no one is naked here)

I recently had a chat with Daniel Farr from Sit Down For Stand Up about starting out in comedy and the various paths one can take:
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i'm so poor that when I browse the Michelin guide i'm only looking at Bib Gourmand

Got some “music” on that is just industrial noise with someone playing drums over the top and I pointed to the speakers and said to my one year old, “This is really good stuff, by the way.”

The Honourable Schoolboy by John Le Carré everyone’s horny… and corrupt!: a 1970s spy thriller

I read some old horny Le Carré: triumphofthenow.com/2025/09/10/t...

Only now outside for the first time today and I was almost surprised the world still existed.

Leave The World Behind by Rumaan Alam halfwritten blog from a month ago with notes on the delay thank u for reading

half wrote this blog almost a month ago and can't be arsed to finish it properly so here it is with some commentary on why i haven't written more and what i've been doing instead. thank u thank u thank u
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TEN WORDS OR FEWER INTERVIEW: Chris Bennett, author of Windslash – The Last Elemental Come and meet Chris Bennett, author of Windslash – The Last Elemental

Latest interview up on the blog with Chris Bennett, author of Windslash—The Last Elemental: triumphofthenow.com/2025/08/22/t...

A Foreign Country is the Past by Fernando Sdrigotti a great collection of short stories that aren’t pretending to not be a collection of short stories

'this beautiful, tight, collection that leads one to think about youth and ageing, about regret and shame, about blissful celebration of one’s chiefest memories…'

A FOREIGN COUNTRY IS THE PAST by Fernando Sdrigotti reviewed by @scottmanleyhadley.bsky.social

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Up in Edinburgh later this week!

Vantage Points: On Media as Trans Memoir by Chase Joynt phenomenal piece of mixed form memoir, thought, analysis, collage

I read another phenomenal digressive memoir, this one using the lens of media literacy to explore the fears of sleepwalking into legacies of toxic masculinity(ies?) when transitioning: Vantage Points by Chase Joynt: triumphofthenow.com/2025/08/11/v...

TEN WORDS OR FEWER INTERVIEW: Claire Moore, author of It’s OK To Wobble a conversation with Claire Moore, author of It’s OK To Wobble

New interview up with Claire Moore, author of It’s OK To Wobble:
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I read an interesting and meticulously researched history book that bizarrely presumes its readers believe in white supremacist fantasies: triumphofthenow.com/2025/08/06/b...

Fucking hell LinkedIn!!!

Notes Made While Falling by Jenn Ashworth some notes on Notes Made While Falling, EXACTLY my kinda book

Absolutely brilliant and one of the best things I’ve read in a long time - Notes Made While Falling by Jenn Ashworth:
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TEN WORDS OR FEWER INTERVIEW: Feyisayo Anjorin, author of The Hypocrite Series a conversation with Steve McLean, author of Stealing Deep Purple

New interview with Feyisayo Anjorin:
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Live Show Announcement: Bald Personality Disorder at the Lambeth Fringe I’m very very very excited to announce that I’ll be performing some kind of spoken word/alternative comedy/performance art work-in-progress show at this year’s Lambeth Fringe. Ful…

Live weird hairless performance coming to Waterloo in October:
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West by Carys Davies notes on a cracking, strange, borderline metatexual novella

I read a great metatexual(ish) historical novella - West by Carys Davies: triumphofthenow.com/2025/07/28/w...

Whoever told me the British Library is “clothing optional” is a fucking liar

TEN WORDS OR FEWER INTERVIEW: Steve McLean, author of Stealing Deep Purple a conversation with Steve McLean, author of Stealing Deep Purple

Writer & Comedian Steve McLean joins for my latest interview to discuss STEALING DEEP PURPLE: triumphofthenow.com/2025/07/25/t...

A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. a three part post-apocalyptic novel that swings all the way back around to pre-apocalyptic

I don’t know what a Canticle is, but I thoroughly enjoyed A Canticle for Leibowitz, which is The Name of the Rose meets The Road. The Name of the Road: triumphofthenow.com/2025/07/24/a...

Ach!!! Nightmare!!! Can you maybe take the Eurostar instead?

TEN WORDS OR FEWER INTERVIEW: Sheila Muckle, author of Roses and Redemption come and meet Sheila Muckle, author of Roses and Redemption

“ Q: Where is somewhere you’ve been to that you will never return to? Why?
A: Everywhere. I am 82.“
Quite possibly the wildest entry yet in my short form interview series - Sheila Muckle, “clean romance” author: triumphofthenow.com/2025/07/18/t...

What do you think this portends???

The Wild Body by Wyndham Lewis so you’ve got a great name???

Yes, he’s got a *great* name, but can any collection of short humorous prose stand the sociocultural changes of a century??? - notes on The Wild Body by Wyndham Lewis: triumphofthenow.com/2025/07/15/t...