I love my job. I feel very lucky to work in such an amazingly gorgeous bookshop and to get to go in one day a week and soak up the fiction. Anyway, bobbins and short stories:A woman came and asked if we had a copy of a specific book. Yes we do, it's on the... Continue Reading →
Pulpy goodness
A new edition of the ever fabulous Pulp Net is now up. I have written reviews of Janice Galloway's "This is Not About Me" and Chris Killen's "The Bird Room". Also, for London dwelling peeps, there is a Pulp Net Short Story Cafe on tonight, which looks well worth going to.
Review of "This is Not About Me" by Janice Galloway
It won’t surprise any regular reader of this blog to hear that I think Janice Galloway’s “This is Not About Me” superb. Despite it being published last year I have only just read it. I hoarded it like a rare treat, saved for a time when I could properly engage, believing that writing this good... Continue Reading →
Things I wish I had said to Janice Galloway –
1) Anything sensible rather than the breathless, gushy nonsense I babbled at her!(Ha ha)Okay, I was a little nervous. The more I thought about it the more I realised that of my revered three (Galloway, Lorrie Moore, Ali Smith) Galloway is the writer who I have respected, admired, and aspired to, for the longest, with... Continue Reading →