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.
New Ways with Words
Podcast: BBC Editor of Readings, Di Speirs, hosts a discussion on modern modes of experiencing short fiction – with readings from Joe Dunthorne, Geoff Dyer and Tessa Hadley.
Starting Block – An Exercise
In The Sound of Music, Maria sings: ‘Let’s start at the very beginning. It’s a very good place to start.’ That might be the case if you’re an ex nun in the Swiss Alps but it doesn’t work so well in short story writing.
We Recommend – Richard Bausch
In his first THRESHOLDS post, MORGAN OMOTOYE finds much to recommend in The Stories of Richard Bausch.
It Takes Longer To Write Than To Read
‘To make something brilliant and important isn’t easy, and nor should it be.’ NIK PERRING shows us the amount of work and craft and dedication it takes to write short, short fiction.
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’.
Notwithstanding Christmas:
JOSE VARGHESE explores the longing beyond life in Louis de Bernieres’ short story ‘This Beautiful House’.
We Recommend – George Moore
‘He was a grand old man of letters when James Joyce was still the up-and-coming kid on the block’: MIKE SMITH looks at the career of Irish novelist and short story writer George Moore, and calls for a revival of his work.