In 1986 or thereabout I bought the Carver stories above from a shop in Plymouth whilst visiting my sister. It was the start of my obsession with all things ‘Americana’. I moved on via Granta’s Dirty Realism collection to a whole series of American authors including Lorrie Moore, Bobbie Anne Mason and then backwards towards…
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First fiction for work-shopping: ‘Flying Fish’
The first chapter involves all of the above 🙂 I have finally after 30 years of thinking about it produced 2000 words of prose fiction which a relief as I had built up a mental block of ever actually doing it because I have been so immersed in art and poetry. The document has…
Daily Short: John Romano – King of the Wild Frontier
Available online here: http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/king-of-the-wild-frontier-0000346-v21n6 I recently picked up the Fiction issue of Vice magazine. http://www.vice.com/magazine/21/6 Recommend these annual issues all of which are available online. They have a tendency to lean toward the Lad/Ladette market but contain some interesting works. Especially from the film/fiction crossover area. This year’s issue also contains Nabokov’s unpublished Lolita screenplay and…