ID: Photo of the book. The cover is an orange-brown, featuring the image of a pair of scales; the tray in the foreground has weights on it, but the contents of the other tray is not clear enough to make out. The image is overlaid with a faint image of coins

#nowreading The Arden Early Modern Drama edition THE JEW OF MALTA, by Christopher Marlowe, edited by William H Sherman and Chloe Preedy #malewriter #play #ardenearlymoderndrama @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social

ID: Photo of the front cover of the 25th anniversary tie-in edition of the script, showing a floral background behind Elaine Crombie from the anniversary production for the Sydney Theatre Company

#nowreading THE 7 STAGES OF GRIEVING, by Wesley Enoch and Deborah Mailman #malewriter #femalewriter #play #australiandrama

ID: Photo of the book cover, featuring a portrait, believed to be of Marlowe, by an anonymous painter, arranged such that only the left side of his face is visible, his brown eyes gazing steadily out at the viewer. His collar-length brown hair flows out from the side of his head and he has a light beard shading his jawline but leaving his cheeks bare. He wears a black doublet with a white collar and red buttons, patterned with red diagonal lines which look like an interrupted zigzag pattern

#nowreading DARK RENAISSANCE: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare’s Greatest Rival, Christopher Marlowe, by Stephen Greenblatt #malewriter #nonfiction

ID: Photo of my op shop copy of the 1970 Penguin Plays edition. The cover is black and pink against a white background. The bottom third consists of a pink panel with the silhouettes of, presumably, the original cast in black. The title is in an arc around a semicircular extension above that panel, which contains the playwright’s name in white ‘Penguin Plays’ appears across the top of the design, spelled out in letters made up of dots, to simulate theatre lights

#nowreading THE BOYS IN THE BAND, by Mart Crowley #play #malewriter #queertheatre

You can see from the price sticker that this copy cost me one (1) dollar. The price on Amazon is currently $141.99 AUD, for the exact same edition

ID: Photo of my op shop copy of the 1954 Penguin edition, with a navy dot sticker, indicating that it cost me $2. The cover is a sickly, pale pea-soup green with a white, botanic-style illustration of a ferny garden with a triffid growing out of it. The triffid has large leaves at its base, from which grows a trunk-shaped flower with an extremely long pistil ending in a row of stigmata, depicted as smaller flowers

#nowreading THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS, by John Wyndham #malewriter #sciencefiction #dayofthetriffids

ID: Photograph of the book. Tyler Comrie‘s cover design is off-white with pale blue text and a cloud of hand-drawn emoji in yellow and orange, illustrated by Ben Hickey. The emoji create a negative space in the shape of a speech bubble, which contains the book’s subtitle

#nowreading ALGOSPEAK: How Social Media is Transforming the Future of Language, by Adam Aleksic #malewriter #nonfiction #linguistics #newrelease

ID: Photo of the book’s cover, featuring wrought iron gates against a night sky. A candle burns in the light fitting hanging from one of the stone gateposts, obscuring the moon in a way that makes the candle seem to be lighting up the sky. On the gateposts are classical statues of a woman on one side and a warrior on the other

#nowreading the Arden Early Modern Drama edition of PHILASTER, by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, edited by Suzanne Gossett #jacobean #play #malewriter #femalewriter #aemd @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social

ID: Screenshot of the cover art. The background is black and the author and title are block capitals, inverted to expose a deeper background. The author name reveals a lurid pink, and the title reveals an equally lurid LA; ‘bury’ shows a blue and pink sky, ‘your’ shows the sky turning orange behind the tops of palm trees, and ‘gays’ shows the lower trunks of the palms, a stretch of beach and the ocean. Interposed over and under the text is a sledgehammer dripping with rivulets of glistening blood Across the top of the cover is the text, “USA Today bestselling author of Camp Damascus”, with the strap line “You can make a killing in Hollywood” across the bottom

#nowreading BURY YOUR GAYS, by @chucktingle.bsky.social #fiction #malewriter #queerfiction

ID: Screenshot of the book’s cover, featuring a black and white photograph of an older Sondheim, with his chin on folded arms

#nowreading CAREFUL THE SPELL YOU CAST, How Stephen Sondheim Extended the Range of the American Musical, by Ben Francis #nonfiction #malewriter

ID: Photo of the cover of the 1965 Methuen Modern Plays edition. It has a blue border and features a production shot of a man holding a dining chair above his head, and being restrained by another man, who is slightly blurry due to being in motion when the picture was taken

#nowreading THE BIRTHDAY PARTY, by Harold Pinter #malewriter #play

ID: Photo of the book cover. It is pale cream, with black and purple text, and the word ‘devil’ has a pair of horns, which look like inverted commas. Across the top is the text ‘the multi-million-copy bestseller’, and across the bottom, ‘a Thursday murder club mystery’. There are two quotes, “Brilliantly suspenseful” from Jeffery Deaver, and “Deplorably good” from Ian Rankin. There is also a fox in the bottom left corner, providing a flash of red

#nowreading THE LAST DEVIL TO DIE, by @richardosman1.bsky.social #fiction #malewriter #thursdaymurderclub

ID: The book’s front cover, showing a bed with rumpled sheets

#nowreading The Arden Shakespeare edition of OTHELLO, edited by EAJ Honigmann, with a new introduction by Ayanna Thompson #shakespeare #ardenshakespeare #play #classics #malewriter #femalewriter @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social

ID: The front cover of the script, showing a woman (Kala Gare from the original production) in a white shirt against a marigold yellow background. She is belting a song and her long, brown, wavy hair is flying

#nowreading MY BRILLIANT CAREER, book by Sheridan Harbridge and, music by Matthew Frank and lyrics by Dean Bryant, adapted from the novel by Miles Franklin #play #musicaltheatre #malewriter #femalewriter #classic #adaptation

ID: The book’s cover, showing domestic wrought iron security gates, with a glimpse of the doors they protect. The doors are open, as is the left-hand gate, letting light spill through onto the cobblestones in front of the house. This artfully overexposed light obscures our view into the house

#nowreading the Arden Early Modern Drama edition of John Webster’s THE DUCHESS OF MALFI, edited by Leah S Marcus #ardenearlymoderndrama #aemd #malewriter #femalewriter #jacobean #play @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social

ID: The book’s cover, featuring a variety of production and rehearsal shots taped onto a white background. Naturally, all text is styled to appear as if written with a bloody finger. Individual image descriptions: 1: a black and white photograph of Linzi Hartley as Carrie, with her wrists crossed in front of her and flames coming from her hands 2: a yellow cab stopped in front of the Virginia Theatre 3: a group of young women rehearsing a dance routine 4: Linzi Hateley and Sally-Anne Triplett in rehearsal, wearing a dark zip-up top and a loose-fitting write t-shirt with dark horizontal stripes, respectively 5: Sally-Anne Triplett in the same t-shirt 6: four cast members hanging out the door of a branded tour bus 7: Marin Mazzie, in a bloodstained white smock, and Molly Ranson, drenched in stage blood, during a curtain call for the off-Broadway revival 8: a ticket for the 3 May 1988 performance of Carrie on Broadway 9: Barbara Cook (presumably kneeling) with Linzi Hateley standing behind her and holding her hands with their arms outstretched, both wearing rehearsal black 10: Emily Lopez as Carrie in production, just after having the pigs’ blood dropped on her

#nowreading OUT FOR BLOOD: A cultural History of Carrie the Musical, by Chris Adams #malewriter #nonfiction #musicaltheatre #flops #carriewhiteeatsshit @methuendrama.bsky.social

ID: The book’s front cover, featuring a bare tree in a bleak, overgrown field, against a grey sky, which is blackening at the edges

#nowreading The Arden Shakespeare edition of KING LEAR, edited by RA Foakes
#shakespeare #ardenshakespeare #play #classics #malewriter @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social

ID: Photo of the front cover. Against a moss-green background is a black-and-white crossroad street sign. Due to the angle of the image, the top sign, which is a well-maintained white text on black, is partially obscured by an unmaintained black-on-white version of the same sign, identifying both cross-streets as the titular Clybourne Park. There are also stamps identifying the play as having won the Pulitzer Prize, and the Tony Award for Best Play, in gold and silver, respectively

#nowreading CLYBOURNE PARK, by Bruce Norris. #malewriter #play @fsgbooks.bsky.social

ID: Photo of the front cover of the book. A cloud floats in a vast, pale teal sky. A swing hangs from the cloud, holding a woman in a blue 1930s-style belted leotard In the top right is the following quote from Yuval Noah Harari’s piece in The Guardian on Books of the Year, “Reminds us that the mind is the greatest mystery in the universe”

#nowreading HOW TO CHANGE YOUR MIND: The New Science of Psychedelics, by @michaelpollan.bsky.social #malewriter #nonfiction #science @penguin.com.au

ID: A screenshot of the cover. The background is pale blue, and shows a man walking on top of a hill in the foreground while a biplane wheels overhead, with fields and mountains in the distance. Across the bottom is the quote from The Observer, “A classic adventure story, jammed with action, violence, and suspense”

#nowreading THE 39 STEPS, by John Buchan #malewriter #fiction #thriller

ID: A photograph of the book. The cover is a deep red, with the author’s name and the title each large enough to take up two lines of type. Across the middle of the cover is a line of figures in silhouette: a cat, a boy walking, a ballerina, a young man walking, a bird perched on the outside of its cage, a man in a butcher’s apron, a grown man walking, and a man swimming. The title is in glossy black print, and is embossed

#nowreading NIMBLEFOOT, by Robert Drewe #malewriter #fiction #australianfiction

A photograph of the book. The cover art shows two indistinct human forms on the left and some red jonquils on the right. The background is teal, fading to white at the horizon and then grey below, with a few drops of water dripping from the top left, which have left a black stain

#nowreading The Arden Shakespeare edition of THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN, by John Fletcher and William Shakespeare, edited by Lois Potter
#shakespeare #ardenshakespeare #play #classics #malewriter #femalewriter @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

ID: A photograph of the script. The cover uses a rehearsal photo, with Ngali Shaw in the foreground and the rest of the cast rehearsing a speccy behind him

#nowreading 37, by Nathan Maynard
#malewriter #play #australiandrama #indigenouswriter

The cover art for Nova Scotia House

#nowreading NOVA SCOTIA HOUSE by Charlie Porter, thanks to #netgalley
#fiction #malewriter #novascotiahouse @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social

ID: The front cover art for the book, printed in black on a red background, featuring a photograph of two people mudlarking on the foreshore of the Thames

ID: An image of the cover art, incongruously featuring John Singer Sargent’s portrait of the French composer Gabriel Fauré, for reasons which may or may not become clear

#nowreading THE WAY OF ALL FLESH, by Samuel Butler #fiction #malewriter

A photograph of the book. The cover, in golden tones of orange, shows a weathered statue head, with the face broken away to reveal a fresh marble face beneath. In the lower left corner is another, smaller marble face.

#nowreading The Arden Shakespeare edition of ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, edited by John Wilders #nonfiction #malewriter #ardenshakespeare #shakespeare #classics #play