From the archives: The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis by Lydia Davis Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2009 Reviewed by Tania Hershman “If someone asks me ‘Where does he live?’ should I answer ‘Well, right now he is not living he is dying’? If someone asks me, ‘Where does he live?’ can I say ‘He lives in Vernon Hall’? Or should […]

Review of Unthology No. 3

Unthology No. 3 Edited by Robin Jones & Ashley Stokes        Unthank books,  2012 Reviewed by Pauline Masurel  The pie base slides down the steel slope and comes to rest just beyond my fill gun.  I nudge it back so the end of the gun rests inside the lip of the empty base.  I take account of […]

How to Fare Well And Stay Fair by Adnan Mahmutović

How to Fare Well And Stay Fair by Adnan Mahmutović     Salt, 2012 Reviewed by Melissa Lee-Houghton ‘Still, wherever we are, there remains the MYTH, all defined, capitalized and italicized, built up from scratch into one of the most magnificent air castles between Heaven and Hell.’ Has a book ever taken you somewhere, not necessarily a place you […]

Interview with Tina Makereti author of Once Upon a Time in Aotearoa

Interview with Tina Makereti, author of Once Upon a Time in Aotearoa, reviewed by Elizabeth Rutherford-Johnson How long did it take you to write all the stories in your collection? It’s hard to say – the actual time period was nearly two years but I was doing things other than writing for a large portion […]

Review of Twice in a Lifetime, by Ágúst Borgþór Sverrisson

  Twice in a Lifetime  by Ágúst Borgþór Sverrisson            Translated from the Icelandic by Maria Helga Guðmundsdóttir and Anna Benassi   Comma Press, September 2011 Reviewed by AJ Kirby “In bed, the day flashes through his head in disparate fragments: a yellow bus, black plastic bags, deep wrinkles, a bread roll on […]

Review: Once Upon a Time in Aotearoa, by Tina Makereti

Once Upon a Time in Aotearoa Tina Makereti Huia Publishers, 2010 Reviewed by Elizabeth Rutherford-Johnson “That last afternoon with Koro Joe was like a clue to the boy. There was a trail for him to follow: things he had seen, or heard, fractured memories he could link together to form an ongoing idea about the world.” The […]

Blog: Longlists and Short Story Month

It’s been a while since we blogged here at The Short Review Towers, so here’s a quick one to provide you with an ENORMOUS list of short story collections to read and more ideas… First, the longlists for the 2013 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and Edge Hill Short Story Prize – both for […]

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