Get Carter – at the Bath Literature Festival
For several years in the 1970s, Angela Carter lived in Bath, and at this year’s Bath Literature Festival, a number of events celebrated her work. PAULINE MASUREL went along to find out more.
Author Profile – Richard Yates
Yates received little in the way of critical attention during his lifetime, but since his death in 1992, his novels and short stories have been passed from writer to writer as examples of what is possible: a “secret handshake” according to Richard Ford.
Author Profile – Erskine Caldwell
By his death in 1987, Erskine Caldwell had published twenty-five novels, nearly one-hundred-and-fifty short stories and twelve volumes of non-fiction. Ellie Piddington looks at why his work is often excluded from the Southern literary canon.
Author Profile – Annie Proulx
Her love of the short form derives from her delight in the weight of every word and the way the expression of big ideas is possible in a small space. For this reason, Proulx believes that new writers should ‘cut their teeth’ with novel writing before attempting the complexities of the short story form.
Author Profile – O. Henry
Mike Smith writes: I recently treated myself to an ostentatiously bound copy of O. Henry’s 101 Stories…