Books I'm reading at the moment
These are some of the books I'm reading at the moment. There they are. Lovely. The Morrissey book hasn't aged well. But it was pretty wrong-headed to begin with. And the larding of song titles in the text. Cringe-inducing, in the old fashioned manner. Most of these are research of one type or another. I have a lot of things I want to write and these books are like tributaries flowing into the bulging Thames of my brain. Some of them may peter out before they reach the river, of course. Not everything is useful but, given the subconscious nature of a lot of the work, you don't always know what's useful anyway. Seven books. Only one of which is fiction. Only one of which is a leisure read. Simon Callow's Being an Actor is by far the funniest book - Nicholas Craig's I, an Actor , but for real - and Paul Morley's Nothing is an extraordinary meditation on death, suicide and post-punk sturm and drang. Its also preposterous in places and exquisitely mundane ...
