Welcome to Exit Only. Against the encouraged newsletter format of substack, I will be using this space to write and publish reviews of forthcoming and neglected fiction, ideally once a month. Occasionally I will use this space to publish essays on philosophy, politics and literature.
In particular my focus will be on more obscure and neglected titles from smaller independent publishers or writers not well known in the English speaking world. Our accumulated cultural and artistic output risks, in an age of mass information, disappearing rapidly into the debris of history. It is my hope this publication will at least help such works hover a moment longer above history’s debris before being swallowed whole by oblivion.
My output will be directly related to the strength of my subscriber list. If you would like to support me and my work please consider subscribing. Subscribers get early access to reviews, which will appear several days before a book’s publication. My first review will be of Bosnian writer Miljenko Jergović’s Kin, forthcoming from Archipelago Books. Subscribers will be able to read this from June 10th.