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Especially the Bad Things
Stories by Greg Gerke / £8.99
"These swift, swervy, nervous fictions are heartachingly hilarious and stocked from margin to margin with agony-born brilliances fresh and revitalizing."
- Gary Lutz, author of Divorcer -
Carrying Fire and Water
Stories by Deirdre Shanahan / £9.99
Winner of the Wasafiri New Writing Prize
Forthcoming in Summer 2020. Available to pre-order now.
"Stories beautifully told in image-rich, powerfully descriptive language and an elegiac tone."
- The Irish Times -
Babel
Stories by Gabriel Blackwell / £9.99
Part Borges, part Calvino, part Hieronymous Bosch, the eerie fictions of Gabriel Blackwell offer warped reflections of domestic lives in turmoil, relationships on the brink of an abyss. Enter at the risk of plunging in, with nothing in the depths to break your fall.
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Unspeakable
A novella by Daniel Davis Wood / £6.99
Can sympathy alone rescue the victim of a crime from desecration and despair? Is moral imagination capacious enough to provide restitution? This powerful novella probes the complex ethics of doing justice to the private tragedies of other people.
A Very Human Process
David Hebblethwaite reviews Judith Schalansky’s An Inventory of Losses (trans. Jackie Smith). (more…)
Stylised Sagas, Part 1
Daniel Davis Wood reviews Guillermo Stitch’s Lake of Urine (more…)
A Perfectly Calibrated Instrument
J.S. DeYoung reviews Deb Olin Unferth’s Barn 8. (more…)
Almost-Lies, Not-Quite Fictions
Jessica Payn reviews Eley Williams’ The Liar’s Dictionary. (more…)
A Polyglot Maximalism
Chris Via reviews Rick Harsch’s The Manifold Destiny of Eddie Vegas. (more…)
Let There Be Light
MacKenzie Warren reviews Jessica Sequeira’s A Luminous History of the Palm. (more…)
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Our Dreams Might Align
Stories by Dana Diehl / £8.99
By the winner of the New Delta Review Prize
"The breadth of possibility in this collection is enormous, and the prose is absolutely exquisite."
- Jen Corrigan, The Coil -
Flare and Falter
Stories by Michael Conley / £8.99
Longlisted for the 2019 Edge Hill Prize
"Clever, at times twisted, but always entertaining."
- Jackie Law, Never Imitate -
Above the Fat
Stories by Thomas Chadwick / £8.99
Featuring stories shortlisted for the White Review Prize and the Galley Beggar Prize
"Chadwick is insightful, his writing spare and bleakly comic, with sharp wit."
- Thom Cuell, 3:AM Magazine -
Hang Him When He Is Not There
A novel by Nicholas John Turner / £8.99
Longlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize
"Sharp... weird... dreamlike and nightmarish."
- Eley Williams, author of Attrib. & Other Stories -
Between the Word and the World
Essays by Anna MacDonald / £8.99
Is it possible for an experience of literature to be an experience of life? Can we think of words as existing in three dimensions, as things we move through, in much the same way that we move through the world?
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See What I See
Essay by Greg Gerke / £12.99
"See What I See is the very brew needed in these parched times. Greg Gerke's generous, thoughtful reflections on the experience of art are full of reverence for the illuming efforts of writers and filmmakers."
- Christine Schutt, author of Pure Hollywood
Deirdre Shanahan (2 of 2)
Deirdre Shanahan discusses writing Carrying Fire and Water. (more…)
Deirdre Shanahan (1 of 2)
Deirdre Shanahan discusses the craft of the short story. (more…)
Joshua Rothes
Joshua Rothes discusses editing Kyle Coma-Thompson and Tristan Foster’s 926 Years. (more…)
Greg Gerke (2 of 2)
Greg Gerke discusses the qualities that make art meaningful. (more…)
Greg Gerke (1 of 2)
Greg Gerke discusses the art of short fiction and the aural approach to writing literature. (more…)
Thomas Chadwick (1 of 2)
Thomas Chadwick discusses his writing process and inspirations, and the art of the short story. (more…)
Michael Conley (1 of 2)
Michael Conley discusses his story collection Flare and Falter. (more…)
Isabel Fargo Cole
Isabel Fargo Cole discusses translating Wolfgang Hilbig’s The Tidings of the Trees. (more…)
Megan McDowell
Megan McDowell discusses translating Alejandro Zambra’s Not to Read. (more…)
Brian FitzGibbon
Brian FitzGibbon discusses translating Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir’s Hotel Silence. (more…)
Cherilyn Elston
Cherilyn Elston discusses translating Jorge Consiglio’s Southerly. (more…)
Darran Anderson on Georges Perec
In a deeply personal essay at 3AM Magazine, Darran Anderson describes his resistance to the work of Georges Perec, and the experience of finally opening himself to it. (more…)
Katy Waldman on Naoise Dolan
At the New Yorker, Katy Waldman begins a sort-of-takedown of the Irish novelist Naoise Dolan with some searching questions about self-consciousness in contemporary fiction. (more…)
Ben Masters on Ali Smith
With Summer bringing Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet to a close, Ben Masters takes the long view to assess the novel’s contribution to Smith’s entire oeuvre. (more…)
Jack Solloway on Gabriel Josipovici
Amid fierce debates about cultural memorialisation on both sides of the Atlantic, Jack Solloway reviews Gabriel Josipovici’s new book-length essay, Forgetting, to locate Josipovici’s sympathies. (more…)
Mosaic Maker, Italy
An excerpt from Jessica Sequeira’s A Luminous History of the Palm. (more…)
Nine Days: Modes of Distraction
An excerpt from Deirdre Shanahan’s Carrying Fire and Water. (more…)
Weights
An excerpt from Deirdre Shanahan’s Carrying Fire and Water. (more…)
Araiyakushimae
An excerpt from Deirdre Shanahan’s Carrying Fire and Water. (more…)
Florence, the Film Critic
Exclusive new fiction by Greg Gerke. (more…)
Whitegoods for Your Daughters
An excerpt from a new story by Victoria Manifold, published in the first Splice anthology. (more…)
The Unsuccessful Candidate
An excerpt from a new story by Thomas Chadwick, published in the first Splice anthology. (more…)
A conversation recorded before the end of the experiment
An excerpt from a new story by Abi Hynes, published in the first Splice anthology. (more…)
Big Lads
An excerpt from a new story by Michael Conley, published in the first Splice anthology. (more…)
That Boy
An excerpt from a new story by Reneé Bibby, published in the first Splice anthology. (more…)
The Earth Room
An excerpt from a new story by Dana Diehl, published in the first Splice anthology. (more…)
Mother
An excerpt from Greg Gerke’s Especially the Bad Things. (more…)
Or So
An excerpt from Greg Gerke’s Especially the Bad Things. (more…)
Bach, a Beard, Two Women
An excerpt from Greg Gerke’s Especially the Bad Things. (more…)
Issues
An excerpt from Greg Gerke’s Especially the Bad Things. (more…)
Careful
An excerpt from Greg Gerke’s Especially the Bad Things. (more…)
The TV Show
Exclusive new fiction by Victoria Manifold. (more…)
Rosie
Exclusive new fiction by Abi Hynes. (more…)
Skills in the Domestic Arts
Exclusive new fiction by Reneé Bibby. (more…)
Politics
Exclusive new fiction by Thomas Chadwick. (more…)
Birch
An excerpt from Thomas Chadwick’s Above the Fat (more…)
Above the Fat
An excerpt from Thomas Chadwick’s Above the Fat. (more…)
A New Face
An excerpt from Nicholas John Turner’s Hang Him When He Is Not There. (more…)
Sister Luz
An excerpt from Nicholas John Turner’s Hang Him When He Is Not There. (more…)
The Negritas
An excerpt from Nicholas John Turner’s Hang Him When He Is Not There. (more…)
The Mother
An excerpt from Nicholas John Turner’s Hang Him When He Is Not There. (more…)
The Village Where Everyone Keeps Punching Themselves in the Mouth
Exclusive new fiction by Michael Conley. (more…)
Pinniped
An excerpt from Michael Conley’s Flare and Falter. (more…)
The God Quetzalcoatl Has Retired and Now Runs a Pub in South Manchester
An excerpt from Michael Conley’s Flare and Falter. (more…)
Krill Rations
An excerpt from Michael Conley’s Flare and Falter. (more…)
When It Starts
An excerpt from Michael Conley’s Flare and Falter. (more…)
Marked
An excerpt from Michael Conley’s Flare and Falter. (more…)
Anatidaephobia
An excerpt from Michael Conley’s Flare and Falter. (more…)
The Sanctuary
Exclusive new fiction by Dana Diehl. (more…)
Account For Who You Say You Are
An excerpt from Jesse Ball’s Census. (more…)
In Touch With the Deep Sources of Fiction
An excerpt from Gerald Murnane’s Collected Short Fiction. (more…)
Emptying My Mind
An excerpt from Gerald Murnane’s Border Districts. (more…)
To Date a Time Traveler
An excerpt from Dana Diehl’s Our Dreams Might Align. (more…)
Swallowed
An excerpt from Dana Diehl’s Our Dreams Might Align. (more…)
We Know More
An excerpt from Dana Diehl’s Our Dreams Might Align. (more…)
My mother appeared to be in command of herself…
An excerpt from Suneeta Peres da Costa’s Saudade. (more…)
Alice and Amar
Excerpts (elsewhere) from Lisa Halliday’s Asymmetry. (more…)
Mortuary
An excerpt from Brian Dillon’s In the Dark Room. (more…)