Reading Journal: Thursday 19th November 2009

Arthur Miller joined me for breakfast this morning, in what is most definitely becoming a routine for the week. Please Don’t Kill Anything is the third story from Presence: Collected Stories of Arthur Miller (Bloomsbury), and to be honest it is rather an odd little story.
Short in length, and apparently recalling an incident that [...]

Reading Journal: Wednesday 18th November 2009

And so my journey through Presence (Bloomsbury), the collected short stories of Arthur Miller continued first thing this morning with a read of Miller’s 1951 short story, Monte Sant’ Angelo.
The story, which first made it’s appearance in Harper’s in 1951, follows close American friends Vinny and Bernstein as they tour the Italian countryside [...]

Reading Journal: Tuesday 17th November 2009

Following my enforced rest period reading began again in earnest today at RobAround Manor, and I couldn’t have been more happier.
I began the day with the opening story of Bloomsbury’s recently published collection of Arthur Miller short stories, Presence. Apparently, not a lot of people know that the great American playwright published [...]

Forethoughts: city-lit BERLIN

Rob’s back to firing on all cylinders and he’s celebrating with a journey around literary Berlin

Daily Bookshot: ‘Ich bin ein Berliner’

Oxygen Book’s latest city-lit hits my postbox. Wahoo!

Reading Journal: Monday 17th August 2009

Progress continues through Ox-Tales: Water. My Parisian wanderings resume. Triple Cross is still managing to thrill me.

Reading Journal: Tuesday 21st July 2009

07:00 – A serving of Ox-Tales: Air (Profile Books) with breakfast, and the story next in line from the collection was The Desert Torso by Kamila Shamsie. The story revolves around a courier’s transporting of an ancient and valuable stone torso across the desert. Reflective and pious The Desert Torso turned out to be [...]

Next stop Berlin. Oxygen Books announce latest city-lit destination

Oxygen Books have announced that the latest in their city-lit series, city-lit Berlin (ISBN: 9780955970047), will be released on November 5th to tie in with the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall (November 9th, 1989).
The third title to be released in this unique series; a series in which extracts of [...]

Reading Journal: Sun 28th June 2009

Last night – Alex Burrett, if you’re reading this I just want to tell you that you’re a genius, and I love your imagination! Read Immortal from his My Goat Ate Its Own Legs collection (Burning House) and I loved it. Reading as a kind of modern legend, Immortal tells the story of a [...]

On The Radar: Sofia Tolstoy, City Lit, Slinkachu and Canadian short stories

The Sofia Tolstoy’s diaries. A Canadian short story anthology. A delightful series of literary city guides. The amazing Slinkachu