CAITLIN HORROCKS IN REVIEW

My review of Caitlin Horrocks's fabulous collection This is Not Your City is in the brand new Short Review. There is also an interview with Caitlin here.

Other short fiction collections reviewed in the February issue include [Refuge]e by Adnan Mahmutovic and The Doll: Short Stories by Daphne Du Maurier.

Kudos, as always, to Tania Hershman who is the editor of the Review.She does sterling work and she still manages to write her own fiction. New book due this spring!

SAINTS & SINNERS - REVIEWED

I have a review of Saints and Sinners, Edna O'Brien's newest short story collection here at the latest issue of The Short Review. It starts:

"Edna O’Brien is in my "stable of giants", as E.B. White called his literary heroes; she is a national icon in Ireland, but one who is perhaps not as treasured as she might be. When poet Séamus Heaney turned 70 there was much fanfare; Edna O’Brien celebrated her 80th birthday in December 2010 and there was barely a whisper."

Other reviews in this issue include Valerie Trueblood's Marry or Burn and Polly Samson's Perfect Lives. As usual, the issue also includes reviews with many of the authors. Not Edna, though :(

SHORT REVIEW 12 - OUT NOW!

Issue 12 of The Short Review is out now and is, as usual, packed full of goodies. It includes a concise and informative interview with Yannick Murphy. I always thought Yannick was a man. Well, I was wrong. Read her interview here and see her site here.

AUGUST SHORT REVIEW ONLINE

The Short Review, August edition, is now live here.

There's a review of and interview with a female Paddy O'Reilly from Oz; Tim Jones's Transported is also there, and a collection from the gorgeously named Pia Z. Ehrhardt.

Go there. Read. Enjoy!

THE SHORT REVIEW, JULY ISSUE

The Short Review , July edition, is now up. Reviews of short story collections, new and old! This month's Review includes Vanessa Gebbie, Anne Enright, Aimee Bender and Richard Bardsley.

I absolutely LOVE the author interviews. Each writer is asked the same questions and it's fascinating to read the different approaches of each writer, to writing and to answering the questions.

THE SHORT REVIEW, JUNE ISSUE

I'm back from my hols in France, complete with obligatory flu. What is that all about? The lack of decent veggie food in France? The different air? Whaaaat???

Anyway, I have no energy to write here, so instead will direct you to The Short Review's latest excellent issue here.

Enjoy!!