Category: Publications
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On ‘Selected passages’
My short story Selected passages from the diary of P has been published by Fanzine. The story is related, directly, formally, to my writing on Kay Boyle in The Scofield, and thematically to Hellhole, published by Black Sun Lit. I think. I don’t know; the story meets, to my mind, at a point somewhere between Read.
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On ‘Interview with gorse’
Over at 3:AM I interviewed Susan Tomaselli and Christodoulos Makris, good folk and editors of gorse, a Dublin-based literary journal. It’s been in the works for a while now, but we were able to get it ready just in time for Bloomsday 2016. Nice, too, that the interview contained some welcome news about their future Read.
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On ‘Eight Questions for Idra Novey’
The first thing I read by Clarice Lispector was Idra Novey’s translation of The Passion According to G.H., a book that I know I’m not alone in saying stayed with me, planted in my memory like some alien obelisk. Recently, I heard that Novey had a novel forthcoming. I was on the lookout for a third subject Read.
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On Three Pathways to Get Anywhere
I’ve reviewed Three Pathways to Get Anywhere (Except When There is a Dead End) by Anna Kostreva, a work of experimental nonfiction published by Rough Beast, for Minor Literature[s]. Not an easy review to write (not that reviews are ever easy). Think I’ve said everything I want to say about the book in the review, Read.
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On ‘Economies of Scale’
Queen Mob’s Teahouse have published my piece, Economies of Scale. 1 honey ant, 4 blueberries, 1 ripe, 3 un-, 1 green chilli = 1 visit from a magpie, holding your gaze with its eye sunflower yellow Had fun writing this one. It, or a version of it, arrived swiftly during or not long after a Read.
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On ‘I’
Review 31 has published my review of the excellent ‘I’ by Wolfgang Hilbig. I hope it’s implicit in the review, but to state it explicitly – I do like a book that arrives as a book; I’m curious about how much of this is the way it has been framed by Seagull Books in their edition, Read.
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On ‘Eight questions for Ivan Vladislavić’
I had the great pleasure of putting a few questions – eight, to be exact – to South African writer Ivan Vladislavić for 3:AM Magazine. This, of course, necessitated spending a couple of months with everything by him that I could find, something which was itself a delight. Big thanks to Nicky from And Other Stories – and Read.
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On ‘Plagued by the Nightingale: Notes from a Reading Diary’
I’m pleased to be able to say I have a piece titled ‘Plagued by the Nightingale: Notes from a Reading Diary’ in Issue 1.2 – on the subjects of Kay Boyle and Love – of The Scofield, in which I attempt to document my experience and responses to reading Plagued by the Nightingale, Boyle’s debut novel, Read.
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On ‘Stone Idols’
I have a short piece of fiction titled ‘Stone Idols’ in Issue 12 of SAND, Berlin’s English Literary Journal. ‘Stone Idols’ was one of the winning pieces of SAND’s QUICK.SAND flash fiction competition. The issue is being launched in Berlin right now, as I type this, I think. You can buy a copy. Big thanks 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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