Working for a Living:
‘The struggle to find a balance between writing and earning a living is one which most writers have experienced at some time or another.’ SALLY O’REILLY looks at how this conflict shaped the work of Raymond Carver.
Listen to ‘Mrs. Dalloway’s Party’
We are pleased to offer you a live reading of ‘Mrs. Dalloway’s Party’ by Virginia Woolf, recorded at the 2011 Small Wonder Festival. This podcast is exclusively available to THRESHOLDS members and is password protected. Members, see newsletter for details or contact thresholds@chi.ac.uk.
Little Fictions, Big Questions
‘Short short? Flash? Micro? Skinny? Nano? 55 words? 100? Less than 500? We may not be sure what to call them or how to define them, but we recognise these miniature fictions when we see them.’ URSULA HURLEY looks at the growth of the smallest form.
Raymond Carver’s ‘A Small, Good Thing’
‘It is the contradictions of the human condition which Raymond Carver is so adept at exploring, a quality that makes his 1983 collection Cathedral a captivating read.’ WENDY GOOD recommends the story ‘A Small Good Thing’.
We Recommend – Kurt Vonnegut
PAULINE MASUREL recommends the second posthumously published collection of early Kurt Vonnegut stories and finds that his prescient voice still has a great deal to tell us about the world we live in, today.