Playing with Dolls
RUTH QUINLAN recommends A Real Doll: ‘A.M. Homes is the writer to turn to when you want someone to lift the floorboards of everyday life and show you the roaches scurrying underneath.’
We Recommend: Margaret Atwood’s ‘Rape Fantasies’
In her essay, shortlisted for the THRESHOLDS Feature Writing Competition, WANDA CAMPBELL recommends Margaret Atwood’s short story ‘Rape Fantasies’.
We Recommend: Valerie Trueblood’s Marry or Burn
In her essay, shortlisted for the THRESHOLDS Feature Writing Competition, Nuala Ní Conchúir talks to the American author about her work.
We Recommend: Mary Wilkins Freeman
‘Who knew that Mary Wilkins Freeman and I would have so much in common?’ DORA D’AGOSTINO finds a writing mentor.
We Recommend: ‘Ralph the Duck’ by Frederick Busch
SARAH HEGARTY: ‘When I first read ‘Ralph the Duck’ I was starting out as a writer, searching for clues about how to do it….’
We Recommend: Hey Yeah Right Get A Life
Shortlisted for the THRESHOLDS Feature Writing competition, Carys Bray recommends Helen Simpson’s short story collection, ‘Hey Yeah Right Get a Life’.
Competition Winner
We are delighted to announce the winner of the THRESHOLDS Feature Writing Competition…
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.
We Recommend – Gold Boy, Emerald Girl
‘The characters are quietly clinging to something else, holding something for themselves, finding their own way.’ AMANDA OOSTHUIZEN discovers a quiet voice talking, in Yiyun Li’s extraordinary collection ‘Gold Boy, Emerald Girl’.
We Recommend – Richard Bausch
In his first THRESHOLDS post, MORGAN OMOTOYE finds much to recommend in The Stories of Richard Bausch.