We Recommend: Slog’s Dad
Shortlisted for the THRESHOLDS Feature Writing Competition,CRAIG LAMONT recommends ‘Slog’s Dad’- a short story by David Almond.
Short Story Masterclass… with Sarah Hall
MASTERCLASS PODCAST: In the first of our Short Story Masterclass podcasts, Steve Wasserman talks to award-winning author Sarah Hall about killer stories and the sexiness of the short story form.
Pulling Words
Managing Editor and founder of Labello Press, DEBORAH McMENAMY, talks of their maiden anthology, Gem Street, and of pulling words instead of weeds.
More Than a Magician
‘More Than a Magician is one of those short stories which I found impossible to digest after just one bite…’ JULIET WEST looks at the work of contemporary Welsh writer Brian George.
Negotiating Cultural Collisions
JOSE VARGHESE recommends Rohinton Mistry’s ‘Squatter’: Its scatological references are intricately related to the plight of a Parsi immigrant in Canada, for whom the frequent necessity to invent imaginary homelands becomes a ‘pain in the posterior’.
A.E.Coppard’s ‘The Higgler’
MIKE SMITH discusses his attraction to A. E. Coppard’s short story ‘The Higgler’: ‘It was the word itself – higgler – that attracted me. I don’t recall ever having heard it spoken, or seen it used in any other context…’
Cartas de Mamá
BELLA WHITTINGTON recommends Julio Cortázar’s ‘Cartas de Mamá’ – ‘a subtle, precise and peculiarly believable story about a young Argentine couple living in Paris.’
We Recommend: Adam Marek’s The Stone Thrower
LELA TREDWELL recommends Adam Marek’s much-anticipated second collection of short stories, The Stone Thrower.
Author Profile: Daniil Kharms
‘As soon as you see a picture, you know he’ll be good.’ In his essay, shortlisted for the THRESHOLDS Feature Writing Competition, C.D. ROSE tells of the life of Daniil Kharms.
There Once Lived a Russian Writer Who Danced in a Nightclub
AMANDA OOSTHUIZEN recommends There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbour’s Baby: ‘I was compelled to read with the same desperate energy that drives Ludmilla Petrushevskaya’s characters to survive.’