Variations on the Body by María Ospina
a supposedly transgressive thing i’ll probably do again
Tag: short stories
Tales from Earthsea by Ursula le Guin
reading more earthsea, hating everything else
Bloodchild by Octavia E Butler
exceptionally good short story collection
Ambergris by Jeff VanderMeer
a big book about mushrooms that are magic (not magic mushrooms)
James Baldwin Threeway
baldwin, baldwin, baldwin
Winter in July by Doris Lessing
short stories about non-monogamous colonial types
Till September Petronella by Jean Rhys
unprecedented: i enjoy a book of short stories cover to cover
Selected Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
mediocre prose and a child bride: time to cancel Poe
Daydream and Drunkenness of a Young Lady by Clarice Lispector
finally seeing what the fuss is about
Remembering Oluwale: An Anthology edited by SJ Bradley
a powerful anthology of poetry and prose
The Automaton by David Wheldon
i remember that i don’t like reading about magic
Jackdaws by Neil Campbell
a return to prose and a whine about violence
#TotNTV: Setting Up A Literary Magazine
Sean Preston chats Open Pen.
The Africa In My House by Andrea Mbarushimana
A British woman considers the life of her Rwandan husband and his country.
Gross In Feather, Loud In Voice by Judson Hamilton
Emotive, bizarre, inventive, stories.
Triumph of the Now TV
home of the lo-fi magazine web series
Homunculus by Aleksandar Prokopiev
Contemporary fairy tales from Macedonia
Happy Ending NOT Guaranteed by Liam Hogan
My latest review over at Open Pen discusses the point of fiction…
In the Company of Ghosts: The Poetics of the Motorway edited by Alan Corkish
driving myself crazy / reading books about the motorway
Attrib. and other stories by Eley Williams
drowning in sobriety like I used to drown in booze; even sublime prose can’t hoist me happy
Dysfunctional Males by Fernando Sdrigotti
Men are disgusting.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
an accurate depiction of the lust and boredom that threatens to overwhelm all of us who aren’t pious, delusional, fuckheads
Radar Road: The Best of On Impulse by Nath Jones
A short story collection, and my first experience of an eBook.
Vampire in Love by Enrique Vila-Matas
Experimental late 20th century short fiction.
The Short Anthology: The Second Issue (edited by Will Martin & Kat Phan)
A collection of short fiction inspired by photography.
Killing and Dying by Adrian Tomine
What next? I thought I’d go with something a little different, a little rounder, wider, more fictional and less harrowing.Continue Reading
The Neva Star: A Story by C.D. Rose
One of the good things about a sober evening is the mental energy to read. This is the only way IContinue Reading
The Life of a Stupid Man by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
I read another one of those cute Penguin Little Black Classics, this one a collection of three short stories byContinue Reading
Malcolm Lowry: Psalms and Songs (edited by Margerie Lowry
Psalms and Songs is an odd book, a collection of short stories by Malcolm Lowry (some previously published, others unfinished),Continue Reading
9th and 13th by Jonathan Coe
I picked this up a while ago from a secondhand bookshop somewhere, shortly after reading Jonathan Coe’s Like A FieryContinue Reading
The Death of Ivan Ilyich & Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
This week, I decided to dabble with a bit of Leo Tolstoy. I’ve never read anything by the big-hitting RussianContinue Reading
Oblivion: Stories by David Foster Wallace
After reading his Infinite Jest last Summer, I’ve been consistently disappointed by the further fiction I’ve perused by the postmodernContinue Reading
Penguin Modern Stories 7
I sourced this 1971 collection of short stories for one simple reason: ‘For Bolocks Please Read Blocks Throughout’, a B.Continue Reading
Lonesome Traveler by Jack Kerouac
Last Summer, whilst twatpacking* around the Mediterranean, Tunisair lost my backpack between Casablanca and Tunis. Though it contained nothing ofContinue Reading
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel García Marquez
Having read and being very disappointed by One Hundred Years of Solitude recently, I thought I should take another quick puntContinue Reading
Girl With Curious Hair by David Foster Wallace
Having managed to twist two of the last three reviews I posted on here into David Foster Wallace hagiographies, IContinue Reading
The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield
I am now in the second half of my seventeen day run working the equivalent of every day (that’s workingContinue Reading
The Penguin Book of New American Voices edited by Jay McInerney
I found this excellent 90s-scene short story collection in a charity shop, picking it up mainly because amongst its sixteenContinue Reading
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
Sherwood Anderson, and more specifically his volume of interconnected short stories, Winesburg, Ohio, has had an odd history. Once considered aContinue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 