Tag: publications
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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 ‘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 ‘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 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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On ‘Black chalk with touches of white on brown paper’
I have a short story titled “Black chalk with touches of white on brown paper” in issue two of Gorse. [Read an extract here.] Gorse, edited by Susan Tomaselli, is a literary magazine out of Ireland that carries on the tradition of the avant-garde, Modernist “little magazine” of the early twentieth century (Niall McCormack pays Read.
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On Trieste by Daša Drndić
My review of Trieste by Daša Drndić is up at 3:AM Magazine. In case I don’t make myself clear in the review, Trieste is an exceptional novel. It’s been some time since I read anything with this kind of power, or something that felt so much bigger than me and my neighbourhood; I don’t mind Read.
Tristan Foster 