Author: Tristan
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Coleridge in Xanadu
The idea came at dawn between sleeps; I woke to drink from the tap and to check on the blue bird, deathly ill, and back in bed a thought appeared, quivered, somersaulted into another, a theme, a number — but then, Coleridge in Xanadu. Read.
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On ‘In the moments…’
My short story ‘In the moments Worker A spends thoroughly washing a jam jar in the communal kitchen on the twenty-fourth floor’ is in issue eleven of Tincture Journal. Don’t want to say too much about this one here; fun piece – or, rather, maybe, piece I had fun writing. Not dissimilar in form to… Read.
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On The Illogic of Kassel
“Didn’t I come to Kassel precisely to seek the aesthetic instant?” My review of The Illogic of Kassel by Enrique Vila-Matas (translated by Anne McLean and Anna Milsom and published by New Directions) has been published at Words Without Borders. Needless to say, it’s quite the thrill to have written for an organisation that champions… Read.
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On ‘A fixed vocabulary’
My short piece – fiction? fragments? I don’t know – called A fixed vocabulary has been published by The Learned Pig. Words, words. Sometimes thinking about words – the right words, the wrong ones, their meanings slippery like fish – can be crippling. This piece came from that thinking – of not having the right… Read.
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On ‘The Taipan’
My short story The Taipan has been published over at Berfrois. Ted “The Taipan” Barrie is a semi-professional boxer from the suburbs of Western Sydney. He will fight soon, but he probably shouldn’t. Big thanks to Russell Bennetts for giving it a chance. Read.
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On ‘Our Hero Explains’
My short story ‘Our Hero Explains’ appears in the Ex-Stasis issue of Vestiges, the irregular journal published by Black Sun Lit. ‘Our Hero Explains’ is a somewhat strange story for me; indeed, it’s been some time since I have even had reason to look at it. But some of the evocations – the location our… Read.
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On ‘Eight questions for Gerald Murnane’
My interview with Gerald Murnane is now up at 3:AM Magazine. My introduction will hopefully go some way in telling the story of how this came together. Big thanks to Ivor Indyk from Giramondo for facilitating the exchange and to K.T. Kahn, my buddy and fellow editor at 3:AM, for the editorial work. And, of course, to… Read.
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On 3:AM + one or two other things
Thought it was about time I put in writing here that I have joined the mighty 3:AM Magazine as a reviews/nonfiction editor, working closely with my good buddy K. Thomas Kahn. Been a reader of the journal, sometime contributor and an admirer of the current editorial team (Andrew Gallix, David Winters and Richard Marshall to begin… Read.
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On an excerpt from Omnivore
Sleepingfish have published an excerpt from Omnivore. Published here are sections 5 – 8. Omnivore’s subtitle is “A creation myth” – that probably sums up best what I am attempting with the piece and with the personage of Figure. Big thanks to Derek. Read.
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The sound of 08:18 27 May 2014, inadvertently recorded and saved to my Evernote account. Read.
Tristan Foster 