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Kazuo Ishiguru does short stories

Posted on 29/04/2009 by  titania177  ( x Hide posts by titania177 )


Well, he sort of does short stories. His new book, Nocturnes, is a collection of five such "things". Ishiguru doesn't seem wholeheartedly comfortable with the idea that he has actually written a short story collection! He said to the Guardian's Decca Aitkinhead on Monday:

"Well I'm not quite sure what you're supposed to call it," he admits. "I've been resisting calling it a collection of short stories because sometimes novelists do publish collections of short stories, and they're basically a rag bag of stories they've had sitting around for the last 30 years. Whereas this book I actually sat down and wrote from start to finish.

Yes, true, from the author interviews on the Short Review, only a few authors seem to have done it this way, having a collection in mind and writing it.
"I don't know what proper short story writers would think of this...


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Two Faces of Mayfair

Posted on 29/04/2009 by  Cornelia  ( x Hide posts by Cornelia )


By day it was all Lorelei song and oompah bands echoing from pleasure boats as they steered past the famous rock ,or outdoor cafes and fairy-tale wooden chairs with heart-shaped holes. But we spent the hours of darkness peering into cellars guarded by large men in turbans, looking for our teenage charges and wondering how we'd explain their loss to the headmistress when we got back to Camberwell


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What Katie Eventually Did Next

Posted on 29/04/2009 by  KatieMcCullough  ( x Hide posts by KatieMcCullough )



Interview with Write Away

Posted on 29/04/2009 by  Stefland  ( x Hide posts by Stefland )


My interview with Nikki Gamble of Write Away is on their website now:


http://www.writeaway.org.uk/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,4529/Itemid,99999999/


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Strictly Writing - Just Post It

Posted on 29/04/2009 by  caro55  ( x Hide posts by caro55 )


Writing a book is one thing. That only takes a few years of dreaming, scribbling, typing, banging your head on the desk and waking up in the middle of the night with the most original idea ever, only to discover in the morning that your bedside notebook is scrawled with stuff like “elephant – maggots – how many?”

Making it fit for anyone to read is quite another thing – more months of editing, editing again, polishing, re-editing, re-polishing. Maybe even giving the manuscript to a friend for their opinion, only to have them say ten weeks later, “Sorry, I've been, like, really busy. I'll read it soon, promise.”

But then comes the difficult bit...

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Just So You Know #2

Posted on 28/04/2009 by  Nik Perring  ( x Hide posts by Nik Perring )




A number of people have, quite rightly, asked which charity's going to benefit from the money we raise from the photo book I'm collaborating with Katherine Lewis on.

I am very happy to be able to announce it's these people: The Alzheimer's Society.

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Just So You Know

Posted on 28/04/2009 by  Nik Perring  ( x Hide posts by Nik Perring )



This is how the judging for the competition will work.

All the stories have been/will be printed off without the name of the author.

Katherine and I will, at some point later this week, go through them and pick our favourite.

Then we'll identify who wrote it. Then the author will be notified and the winner anounced.

I know it's not ideal as I'll have seen who's sent what, but believe me, that won't affect the judging because I struggle to remember what I've had for breakfast.

I thought it best to be clear on the matter, so you all knew.

And folks, there's still time to enter!

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Cows Have Feelings Too

Posted on 27/04/2009 by  KatieMcCullough  ( x Hide posts by KatieMcCullough )


A short whimsical interlude.

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Of kicking cats and Mondays

Posted on 27/04/2009 by  KatyJackson  ( x Hide posts by KatyJackson )


Just another day of kicking cats and chasing vapour. Of listening to egos clash and empty platitudes placed like bandages. Of digging nails into palms beneath the desk top and trying not to yawn.




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SW - Quickfire Questions with... Rosy Thornton... + Prize Giveaway

Posted on 27/04/2009 by  Account Closed  ( x Hide posts by Account Closed )




Rosy Thornton is a talented author of Women's Fiction. Have a chance to win her third novel, Crossed Wires, which has just come out in paperback, by posting a comment! The winner shall be drawn from a hat and announced this coming Friday, 1st May.


Who is your literary hero?
Harriet Vane from Dorothy L Sayers’s Lord Peter Wimsey novels.

Which 3 writers, living or dead, would you invite to dinner?
Elizabeth Gaskell, Simone de Beauvoir and Maya Angelou – three women who’d really set the world to rights.

What's your favourite writing snack?
I have a fetish for dried mango at the moment – texture like shoe leather but tastes like heaven.

Longhand first or computer?
Computer – but I do jot things down on old shopping receipts sometimes, when waiting at red traffic lights.


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