So, the headline news at the Costa Book Awards ceremony in London last night may have been the (deserved) victory of Andrew Miller who took the title of Costa Book of the Year with his novel Pure (Sceptre), but the bigger news for me - and every … [Read more...]
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Costa Book Awards get ‘shorted’. A cause for celebration?
Filed Under: Book News, Feature Story, Short Fiction, Short Fiction News Tagged With: Andrew Miller, BBC National Short Story Award, Bristol Short Story Prize, Costa Book Awards, Etgar Keret, Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, Jonathan Cape, Kevin Barry, Sceptre Books, short fiction, short stories, Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award, Vintage Books
Daily Bookshot: Keep on Bloggin!
Keep on Bloggin!, originally uploaded by Robert Burdock. Whenever my head drops due to blogging workload and pressure (every overworked and zero paid lit blogger knows that feeling, right? :)), I'll always remember these words of encouragement … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Daily BookShot Tagged With: Daily Bookshot, Jonathan Cape, Kevin Barry
Daily Bookshot: Post-apocalypse
Post-apocalypse, originally uploaded by Robert Burdock. They featured together in an event (you can read about it here), so how could I not feature a shot of Steven Amsterdam's Things We Didn't See Coming (Harvill Secker) sitting alongside … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Daily BookShot Tagged With: Daily Bookshot, Harvill Secker, Kevin Barry, Steven Amsterdam
EdBookFest 2011 Diary: Day #7 – of apocalyptic events and island-hopping
Note: remember to scroll down to the bottom for picture highlights from the day. If you're here every day at EdBookFest (or almost every day), then you realise, very quickly, that the pace of the world's finest book festival is relentless. How the … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Feature Story, Rob Reports Tagged With: Alistair Bruce, Clerkenwell Press, Edinburgh Book Festival, Judith Schalansky, Kevin Barry, Particular Books, Steven Amsterdam
Daily Bookshot: All Things European
All Things European, originally uploaded by Robert Burdock. I was at an event at EdBookFest yesterday featuring Kevin Barry, Lucian Dan Teodorovici and Manon Uphoff, which was in support of European fiction, and Dalkey Archive Press' annual Best … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Daily BookShot Tagged With: Daily Bookshot, Dalkey Archive Press, Edinburgh Book Festival, Kevin Barry, Lucian Dan Teodorovici, Manon Uphoff
Afterthoughts: There Are Little Kingdoms by Kevin Barry
In a Nutshell: If you're looking for a sharp, witty and entertaining look at the more marginal side of life on the Emerald Isle, then you won't go far wrong in picking up this collection. With There Are Little Kingdoms Kevin Barry shows himself to be … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Afterthoughts, Book Reviews, Feature Story, Short Fiction, Short Fiction Afterthoughts Tagged With: book review, Kevin Barry, short story collections, short story review, Stinging Fly Press
‘The Penguins’ by Kevin Barry
Title: 'The Penguins' by Kevin Barry Collection/Anthology?: There Are Little Kingdoms (Stinging Fly Press) Date Read: 19 September 2010 Briefly: All seems routine and normal on a Transatlantic flight until a 'majorly dramatic sound from the … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Short Fiction, short stories, Short Story Reviews Tagged With: Irish literature, Kevin Barry, short stories, short story review, Stinging Fly Press
‘Nights at the Gin Palace’ by Kevin Barry
Title: 'Nights at the Gin Palace' by Kevin Barry Collection/Anthology?: There Are Little Kingdoms (Stinging Fly Press) Date Read: 17 September 2010 Briefly: It's the early hours of the morning and Freddie Bliss sits with his daughter Angelica, … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Short Fiction, short stories, Short Story Reviews Tagged With: Irish literature, Kevin Barry, short stories, short story review, Stinging Fly Press
‘There Are Little Kingdoms’ by Kevin Barry
Title: 'There Are Little Kingdoms' by Kevin Barry Collection/Anthology?: There Are Little Kingdoms (Stinging Fly Press) Date Read: 16 September 2010 Briefly: Making his way through the town in high spirits, the narrator is taken by surprise when … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Short Fiction, short stories, Short Story Reviews Tagged With: Irish literature, Kevin Barry, short stories, short story review, Stinging Fly Press
‘Burn the Bad Lamp’ by Kevin Barry
Title: 'Burn the Bad Lamp' by Kevin Barry Collection/Anthology?: There Are Little Kingdoms (Stinging Fly Press) Date Read: 14 September 2010 Briefly: Ralph Coughlan has a small antique shop in the wrong part of town. Wistful and optimistic that … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Short Fiction, short stories, Short Story Reviews Tagged With: Irish literature, Kevin Barry, short stories, short story review, Stinging Fly Press