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Short Story Challenge Day 112 – 125
Etgar Keret – Four Stories (6th June – 9th June) After reading Nik Perring’s excellent debut collection ‘Not So Perfect,’ I thought I would take a look at a writer Nik talks about a lot on his blog....
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Short Story Challenge Day 126 – 156
Etgar Keret – The Nimrod Flipout (20th June – 20th July) As I have mentioned before, the throughly nice, thoroughly talented flash fiction author Nik Perring is a massive fan of Etgar Keret and it is...
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Some lessons are priceless.
Just managed to grab time to watch my recently arrived copy of $9.99, an animated film based on Etgar Keret’s short fiction screenwritten by the man himself and directed by Tatia Rosenthal. I’ve only...
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2010: My fiction of last year
A list made up of fiction released this year and other years but all of them read by me in 2010: Novels: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob DeZoet – David Mitchell A brilliant, genre-bending, heart...
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Short Story Challenge – epilogue.
Over a year ago now I took up the gauntlet thrown by Jodi Cleghorn to read a short story a day for a whole year. I started on 14th February 2010 and am happy to say, as of the 14th February this year,...
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Sunday Viewing
4 videos I stumbled across this week. First up, a great little animated text video of Ira Glass’s key advice for storytellers. This is the advice I paraphrased recently when interviewed by Nuala Ní...
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