Keyword results: Short Stories
Granta Issue 108: Chicago
San Francisco and New York are the touchstone cities of American literature, leaving somewhere less fashionable like Chicago out in the wind and rain, despite the fact Hemingway, Eggers and Obama all grew up there. Strangely, Chicago has found an unusual champion in UK lit journal Granta.
The Chris Ware wraparound cover promises much.
Voiceworks, 'The Words We Found'
I have a fear of literary anthologies. Just like a boardroom table full of strippers, there's always going to be some duds that make you feel queasy. Hence, I approached Voiceworks' new anthology The Words We Found with trepidation.
Voiceworks is a local quarterly magazine produced for, and by, people under 25, and this year marks its twenty first birthday.
How a Moth Becomes a Boat
Havana is a slum, no matter what people say. If you think it's all dancing and beautiful food, Jesus Christ, you've been misinformed. It's a vile city, with plenty of poverty, rum and counterfeit cigars, and to walk away loving such a horrible place is something I put down to the writing of Ernest Hemingway and that sickly Cuban fisherman.
Anthropology and a Hundred Other Stories
Fact: nothing beats miniatures. Take something quite good and shrink it or compress it and BAM! you've got a winner. Don't believe us? Look upon any item that you love and imagine it 100 times smaller. Are you dying from how cute it is? Did you just make a noise that sounds like "SQUEEE!"? Of course you did.
Nobody told me there'd be days like these
Long awaited, and well worth that wait, Nobody told me there'd be days like these is the debut short story collection from Sydney-based New Zealander, Amanda Maxwell. Steeped in coming-of-age debris, these tales chart a deft course through landscapes that are interior and exterior, foreign and local, man-made and natural.
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