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scott manley hadley @scottmanleyhadley.bsky.social · 1d

I read a surprisingly lovely pop history coffee table book some online strangers sent me to comment on:
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The Worlds of Jane Austen by Helena Kelly

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scott manley hadley @scottmanleyhadley.bsky.social · 5d

hi Matt - did you send me a DM on here? I can't access them unfortunately! If yes, I have the same username basically everywhere else, so easy to find!

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scott manley hadley @scottmanleyhadley.bsky.social · 5d

Read an incredible, hefty, brief novel about loss in all its kinds - loss of self, of hope, of love, of life... Every Time We Say Goodbye by Ivana Sajko: triumphofthenow.com/2025/10/10/e...

Every Time We Say Goodbye by Ivana Sajko

perfect, glorious, flawless. i should only read 100 page bleak novellas

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scott manley hadley @scottmanleyhadley.bsky.social · 7d

I liked (but once again failed to love) a book by M John Harrison - this time while spending a long weekend solo with an infant on a boat: triumphofthenow.com/2025/10/08/l...

Light by M. John Harrison

i read a book i hoped to love while staying with just my baby on a boat

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scott manley hadley @scottmanleyhadley.bsky.social · 9d

a great pamphlet from @monitorbooks.bsky.social

scott manley hadley @scottmanleyhadley.bsky.social · 9d

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

COAL by Remi Graves

an excellent and significant chapbook of “poems and experiments”

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scott manley hadley @scottmanleyhadley.bsky.social · 9d

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

COAL by Remi Graves

an excellent and significant chapbook of “poems and experiments”

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scott manley hadley @scottmanleyhadley.bsky.social · 14d

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

july/aug/sept movie watching round up

what I was watching in July, August, September 2025

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scott manley hadley @scottmanleyhadley.bsky.social · 16d

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

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scott manley hadley @scottmanleyhadley.bsky.social · 16d

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

Fall of Civilizations [sic] by Paul Cooper

fourteen brief histories reminding us that everything always falls apart

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scott manley hadley @scottmanleyhadley.bsky.social · 16d

boy do i have those

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scott manley hadley @scottmanleyhadley.bsky.social · 21d

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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SIT DOWN FOR STANDUP PODCAST APPEARANCE

smh chats naked comedy with Daniel Farr (no one is naked here)

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scott manley hadley @scottmanleyhadley.bsky.social · 28d

i'm so poor that when I browse the Michelin guide i'm only looking at Bib Gourmand

scott manley hadley @scottmanleyhadley.bsky.social · Sep 15

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.”

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scott manley hadley @scottmanleyhadley.bsky.social · Sep 10

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

The Honourable Schoolboy by John Le Carré

everyone’s horny… and corrupt!: a 1970s spy thriller

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scott manley hadley @scottmanleyhadley.bsky.social · Sep 6

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

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scott manley hadley @scottmanleyhadley.bsky.social · Sep 3

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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Leave The World Behind by Rumaan Alam

halfwritten blog from a month ago with notes on the delay thank u for reading

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scott manley hadley @scottmanleyhadley.bsky.social · Aug 22

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

TEN WORDS OR FEWER INTERVIEW: Chris Bennett, author of Windslash – The Last Elemental

Come and meet Chris Bennett, author of Windslash – The Last Elemental

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Influx Press @influxpress.bsky.social · Aug 20

'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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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

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scott manley hadley @scottmanleyhadley.bsky.social · Aug 11

Up in Edinburgh later this week!

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scott manley hadley @scottmanleyhadley.bsky.social · Aug 11

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...

Vantage Points: On Media as Trans Memoir by Chase Joynt

phenomenal piece of mixed form memoir, thought, analysis, collage

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scott manley hadley @scottmanleyhadley.bsky.social · Aug 8

New interview up with Claire Moore, author of It’s OK To Wobble:
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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

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scott manley hadley @scottmanleyhadley.bsky.social · Aug 7

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...

Black Tudors by Miranda Kaufmann

an interesting history book that bizarrely panders to the sensibilities of people who will never read it

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scott manley hadley @scottmanleyhadley.bsky.social · Aug 5

Fucking hell LinkedIn!!!

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scott manley hadley @scottmanleyhadley.bsky.social · Aug 4

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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Notes Made While Falling by Jenn Ashworth

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

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scott manley hadley @scottmanleyhadley.bsky.social · Aug 1

New interview with Feyisayo Anjorin:
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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

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