scott manley hadley
@scottmanleyhadley.bsky.social
bad sad bald cold
poet
literary lifestyle blogger
occasional videos
www.TriumphOfTheNow.com
poet
literary lifestyle blogger
occasional videos
www.TriumphOfTheNow.com
Read a great collection of autobiographical poetry by Jane Rosenberg LaForge, published by Broadstone Books: triumphofthenow.com/2025/11/13/t...
The Exhaust of Dreams Adulterated by Jane Rosenberg LaForge
a lovely collection of engaging autobiographical poetry
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November 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Read a great collection of autobiographical poetry by Jane Rosenberg LaForge, published by Broadstone Books: triumphofthenow.com/2025/11/13/t...
Some thoughts on the excellent COMMON by Nikolai Duffy, published by Goldsmiths Press: triumphofthenow.com/2025/11/12/c...
Common by Nikolai Duffy
contemporary intellectual mid-life crisis novel that focuses on the life of the head not the life of the heart
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November 12, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Some thoughts on the excellent COMMON by Nikolai Duffy, published by Goldsmiths Press: triumphofthenow.com/2025/11/12/c...
latest interview up is with Donovan Reyes and discusses writing suburbia, pilgrimages to Madrid and the creative act:
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IMPERSONAL INTERVIEW: DONOVAN REYES, author of DENOUEMENT and APOCRYPHA
an interview with DONOVAN REYES, author of two new books
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November 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
latest interview up is with Donovan Reyes and discusses writing suburbia, pilgrimages to Madrid and the creative act:
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“Why do good things happen to bad people?” I snigger to myself as I strut away with one of the best three tape hauls of my cassette-buying life to date.
November 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
“Why do good things happen to bad people?” I snigger to myself as I strut away with one of the best three tape hauls of my cassette-buying life to date.
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Opening for us in November is an act that clearly got the assignment, it’s @scottmanleyhadley.bsky.social
Please note, we are unaware of the dog will be joining us as well but 🤞
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#CoherentComedy
Opening for us in November is an act that clearly got the assignment, it’s @scottmanleyhadley.bsky.social
Please note, we are unaware of the dog will be joining us as well but 🤞
Tickets below 👇
#CoherentComedy
October 20, 2025 at 11:48 AM
🍓SCOTT MANLEY HADLEY🍓
Opening for us in November is an act that clearly got the assignment, it’s @scottmanleyhadley.bsky.social
Please note, we are unaware of the dog will be joining us as well but 🤞
Tickets below 👇
#CoherentComedy
Opening for us in November is an act that clearly got the assignment, it’s @scottmanleyhadley.bsky.social
Please note, we are unaware of the dog will be joining us as well but 🤞
Tickets below 👇
#CoherentComedy
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
a lovely popular history coffee table book bouncing around the life of Jane Austen
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October 14, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I read a surprisingly lovely pop history coffee table book some online strangers sent me to comment on:
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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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October 10, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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...
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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October 8, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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...
a great pamphlet from @monitorbooks.bsky.social
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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October 6, 2025 at 9:39 AM
a great pamphlet from @monitorbooks.bsky.social
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”
triumphofthenow.com
October 6, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Absolutely brilliant poetry on archives, identify, research and artistic experimentation- coal by Remi Graves: triumphofthenow.com/2025/10/06/c...
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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October 1, 2025 at 7:46 AM
more blog content on the films I watched this Summer (not many): triumphofthenow.com/2025/10/01/j...
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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September 29, 2025 at 8:43 AM
i read this engaging and arguably hopeful pop history book on the inevitability of societal collapse: triumphofthenow.com/2025/09/29/f...
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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smh chats naked comedy with Daniel Farr (no one is naked here)
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September 24, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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
September 17, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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.”
September 15, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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.”
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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September 10, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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.
September 6, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Only now outside for the first time today and I was almost surprised the world still existed.
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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September 3, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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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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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August 22, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Latest interview up on the blog with Chris Bennett, author of Windslash—The Last Elemental: triumphofthenow.com/2025/08/22/t...
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'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 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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August 20, 2025 at 4:04 AM
'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 reviewed by @scottmanleyhadley.bsky.social
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Up in Edinburgh later this week!
August 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Up in Edinburgh later this week!
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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August 11, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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...
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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August 8, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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...
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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August 7, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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!!!
August 5, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Fucking hell LinkedIn!!!