Fifty-Two Stories

Title: Report on Internet User by Andrew Pippos. Date Read: 25th February 2011 Briefly: A snapshot of an evening in the life of an Internet user. Afterthoughts:What makes this story interesting is not just the fact that it is presented in the … [Read more...]

Title: Estrellas y Rascacielos by Justin Taylor. Date Read: 18th February 2011 Briefly: A group of young anarchist band members drink to some undisclosed success, but it gradually becomes clear that rebellion is not the only thing on the mind of … [Read more...]

Title: In The Air by Colin Barrett. Date Read: 21st January 2011 Briefly: It may be bad enough training his under-sixteens in wet and windy conditions, but for Coach this particular Sunday is just about to get a whole lot worse. Afterthoughts: … [Read more...]

Title: Bar Beach Show by E. C. Osondu Date Read: 14th January 2011 Briefly: The narrator tells of the time as a thirteen-year-old, when his father took him along with his brother, to witness the public execution on Lagos's Bar Beach, of the … [Read more...]

Nobody was more delighted than me (probably) to find to out last week that Harper Perennial were taking their free short story portal, Fifty-Two Stories into a third year. With the focus in this new year being on the enigmatic single-word topic … [Read more...]

Bakewell 'bigs it up' for Montaigne (in parts) - Although you've yet to see a review on RobAroundBooks of Sarah Bakewell's awesomely stupendous (and lengthily titled) How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer … [Read more...]

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 … [Read more...]

I know it’s coming terribly late in the day (blame all of the upgrading I’ve been doing on my computer systems today), but I thought it would still be worthwhile just tying up a few loose ends with regards to my reading the end of last week. With … [Read more...]

Title: Cicada Cadence, Katie Didn’t by Craig Davis Date Read: 27 January 2010 Available Online?: YES (as one of the stories posted by Harper Perennial on their website Fifty-Two Stories, which promises a new (or classic) short story from their … [Read more...]

Title: Belinda by Amity Gaige Date Read: 27 January 2010 Available Online?: YES (as one of the stories posted by Harper Perennial on their website Fifty-Two Stories, which promises a new (or classic) short story from their collection, posted every … [Read more...]

Fifty-Two Friday: Report on Internet User By Andrew Pippos

Fifty-Two Friday: Estrellas y Rascacielos By Justin Taylor

Fifty-Two Friday: In the Air By Colin Barrett

Fifty-Two Friday: Bar Beach Show by E. C. Osondu

Introducing ‘Fifty-Two Friday’

‘Book Bites’ for Monday 24th May 2010

‘Book Bites’ for Tuesday 16th February 2010

Reading Journal: Summary for remainder of Week 5 2010

Shot of Short #59: Cicada Cadence, Katie Didn’t by Craig Davis

Shot of Short #58: Belinda by Amity Gaige