‘Book Bites’ for Tuesday 10th March 2010

American Book Review’s Top 40 Bad Books – There’s an interesting run down in the latest edition of American Book Review, on what is considered to be the 40 worst books in American literature. It’s hard enough to define what makes a bad book at the best of times – as the introduction [...]

Book Bite: Introducing the jaywalking Kafka cockroach

It’s not ever day that I get the opportunity to bring illiterate hitchhiking cockroaches to the virtual pages of RobAroundBooks. But today I do, and I’m rather pleased about it.
This insane and not too ‘health and safety’ friendly video comes courtesy of Kafkacotton, a small company who produce unique literary themed t-shirts for the more [...]

‘Book Bites’ for Monday 8th March 2010

Kyle Minor short up at Fifty-Two Stories – I really, really, need to catch up on my reading of the short story offerings at Fifty-Two Stories, because another plate of steaming story has been placed on the serving platter, and it looks to be a tasty one. This time it’s a story called [...]

‘Book Bites’ for Wednesday 17th February 2010

Best Translated Book Award shortlists announced – Those interested in works-in-translation may like to know that the shortlist for this year’s Best Translated Book Awards (BTBA) has been announced. The winner will be announced on March 10th. Full details over at the Three Percent website. If you want more information (and some [...]

‘Book Bites’ for Tuesday 16th February 2010

Van Booy makes another appearance at Fifty-Two Stories – As I strive to catch up with them, the reading offerings keep on coming over at Fifty-Two Stories, Harper Perennial’s portal of free short stories. And the latest author to be served up is none other than old favourite Simon van Booy with French [...]

‘Book Bites’ for Monday 15th February 2010

Hemon discusses European literature – Fans of short stories, European literature and Aleksandar Hemon would definitely be interested in the latest Guardian Book podcast. In it Hemon talks about the tough job he had selecting shorts for Dalkey’s Best European Fiction 2010 anthology (a book I mentioned briefly in an On The Radar [...]

‘Book Bites’ for Monday 25th January 2010

Fifty-Two Stories ‘break out’ a Kevin Sampsell short – Although I’ve still to catch up with the reading of them, it’s great to see that Harper Perennial are continuing their quest of dishing out quality FREE short stories every week on their Fifty-Two Stories website. This week they bring us Jailbreak by Kevin [...]

New non-profit publisher to champion novellas

Fans of novellas and longer short stories may be interested to know that Madras Press, a new non-profit publisher, will be launching next month (December).
Madras Press have a clear aim of publishing stories which are too long for magazines but too short for most publishers. Believing that the novella story [...]

Canongate serving up ‘Sum’ exciting events

David Eagleman’s coming to town (well to Edinburgh and London at least)

Five from Fifty-Two

Time for a catch up on the free short stories offered up by Harper Perennial on their celebration of the short story website.

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