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AN INTERVIEW WITH ANTHONY MCGOWAN, by JB Smith
“Stag Hunt was published by Hodder and Stoughton. Beautiful edition. Nice reviews. Tesco bought tens of thousands of copies.” But here’s the kick. “The barcode had been misprinted and wouldn’t run through the tills.”
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ENCOUNTERS WITH EVERYDAY MADNESS ( CHARLIE HILL), Reviewed by Summer Kendrick
Hill plays with form throughout the book, to great effect. Some stories are epistolic, others are poems, reports or trailing snags of small talk on the School Run. The use of experimental form compliments the overall theme and objectives of the collection, reminding us that rules and reality are flexible conditions.
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THE RABBIT HUTCH (TESS GUNTY), reviewed by Natasha Carr-Harris
There are grand, overarching themes which loom portentously over the unfolding personal narratives, omens of ecological doom and economic collapse and a depressing paucity of societal communion, all echoed by carefully detailed accounts of the city’s deterioration and stricken portraits of its unhappy denizens.
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IOCUS MORTIS, by Joey Barlow
It’s another sellout crowd for Hugh Briss—his third in as many days at the famous Club Comedia. His set, titled ‘Laughter for a Lifetime’, consists of only one joke—not a particularly funny one, and one that isn’t even originally his, so they say, but according to the critics it’s all in his delivery. See, he…
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BREAKING KAYFABE: AN INTERVIEW WITH WES BROWN, by Craig Smith
“And so that’s what the ‘no style’ was. I wanted it to seem spontaneous, to deliberately not write well. And that was a risk because if you want to purposefully write with a little bit less gloss and a little bit less polish, it could come off like you just can’t write. But I wanted…
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SINGAPORE (EVA ALDEA), Reviewed by Katy Severson
In Eva Aldea’s debut novel, Singapore is hot and humid, tense, sterile and slow. There are snakes and crabs, expat housewives with Filipina maids.
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CROW FACE, DOLL FACE (CARLY HOLMES), Reviewed by Mara Girone
Mystery, magic, mental illness and the wrecking of important relationships are some of the elements that make Crow Face, Doll Face a success.
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CUE BALL, By Tom Meadows
Most people don’t live in a building with a Wikipedia page, or in a flat that would bankrupt you to rent, a flat that needs three boilers to heat, a flat that should normally be owned only by overseas oil barons. It squats across the top three floors of an old Georgian building plastered with…
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THEY CALLED ME KYLE, by Owen Bridge
They can only see me if I let them, not like Emma, she doesn’t like to be seen. When I was little, before I moved here, I lived in a big house in the countryside.
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CORDELIA FELDMAN PRIZE FOR LIFE WRITING WINNER : BEDIYE TOPAL
Cordelia Feldman Prize for Life Writing Birkbeck Creative Writing and the family of Birkbeck alumni Cordelia Feldman, are delighted to announce the inaugural Cordelia Feldman Prize for Life Writing. Statement From the Feldman Family This prize is awarded in commemoration of the writing life of Cordelia Jade Feldman (15th May 1979-8th January 2022), who completed…
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