Jennifer Haigh short offered up at Fifty-Two Stories – Tell me that you read last week’s Alex Burrett offering, Immortal, on Fifty-Two Stories? If you did then you’ll know how good it is, and if you didn’t then you’re going to find that out, but you’d better get a move on, because a new week means a new short story offering on Fifty-Two Stories. This week it’s a story from Jennifer Haigh, called Broken Star. I’ve got to admit that I know nothing about Haigh or this short story, but Harper’s Cal Morgan tells us it’s a tale based on the concept of family always being around us (I’m guessing in a spiritual sense as well as a physical – I may be wrong). Interesting? I darn well think so.
European Crime Lover? Then you’ll love this! – If European crime novels are your thing then you might want to get yourself along to the Euro Crime website where there’s an impressively sprawling rundown on the European crime novels that are due out in the coming months. I haven’t had time to check with the site owners, but I’m assuming that this is a list that is added to often, so it may be a good idea to bookmark the page for future reference ::via @nextread on Twitter.
Philip O’Ceallaigh talks short – Nice post on the Penguin blog in which author Philip O’Ceallaigh discusses the short stories that have most inspired him. Hemingway, Babel, Chekhov and Bukowski all get a mention, and O’Ceallaigh even tries to define what constitutes a short story. Not surprisingly he fails miserably, at least in any attempt to give a definitive answer (not that one has, or ever will, exist 
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Ooh … that list of crime releases is going to wreak havoc on my TBR list!
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Yeah it’s a bit never-ending Kristen isn’t it? I think one would need to be endowed with immortality to get through that list, a list which you know is only going to get bigger
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And the problem is that so many of them are series so if you haven’t started one, it’s not just one book to add …