Best British Short Stories 2023

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SALT PUBLISHING 2022

Edited by Nicholas Royle

My previous reviews of —

Nicholas Royle:  https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/14748-2/ 

Salt Publishing: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/tag/salt-publishing/ 

Best British Short Stories: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2023/01/04/best-british-short-stories-2011-2022-edited-by-nicholas-royle-as-as-linked-and-listed-to-my-real-time-reviews-of-them/

Stories: Alinah Azadeh, David Bevan, AK Blakemore, Gabriel Flynn, Jim Gibson, Lydia Gill, Miles Greenwood, Kerry Hadley-Pryce, Philip Jennings, Sharon Kivland, Alison Moore, Georgina Parfitt, Gareth E Rees, Leone Ross, John Saul, DJ Taylor, Briony Thompson, Matthew Turner, Mark Valentine and David Wheldon.

When I read the stories, my thoughts will appear in the comment stream below…

All Living Writers Listed – by Aye Eye

A huge project started in the earlier days of AI Art availability.

Links to AI visual experiments as triggered by my gestalt real-time reviews since 2008.

PLEASE SEE THE LIST OF ALL THE MANY LINKS HERE

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Each image is clickable and available as a separate enlarged one.

All seemingly inspired by WIMSATT’S INTENTIONAL FALLACY / DES LEWIS GESTALT REAL-TIME REVIEWS / NEMONYMOUS / PARTHENOGENETIC LATE-LABELLING / THE SYNCHRONISED SHARDS OF RANDOM TRUTH AND FICTION (WEIRDMONGER)

EDIT (February 2024)— It was exactly a year ago I started experimenting with AI Visual Art, little knowing what I was entering. There was indeed much stimulation in triggering shifting collages from my gestalt real-time reviews of individual authors. But that was then, and now is now. From today, I no longer have this facility.

 

Living writers with visual AI experiments triggered by my reviews of their work into shifting collages… (1)

Links…

STEPHEN KING

BERNARD MACLAVERTY

THOMAS LIGOTTI

NINA ALLAN

RHYS HUGHES

NICHOLAS ROYLE

STEVE RASNIC TEM

GLEN HIRSHBERG

QUENTIN S. CRISP

COLIN INSOLE

JOHN HOWARD

MARK VALENTINE

KAREN HEULER

JULIE TRAVIS

CHARLES WILKINSON

REBECCA LLOYD

STEVE DUFFY

REGGIE OLIVER

D. P. WATT

ALEXANDER ZELENYJ

CAITLÍN R. KIERNAN

LIVING WRITERS TO BE CONTINUED HERE: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2023/03/27/aicraft-being-flown-amid-the-amorphous-thermals-of-literature/

Best British Short Stories 2022

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SALT PUBLISHING 2022

Edited by Nicholas Royle

My previous reviews of Nicholas Royle:  https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/14748-2/ Salt Publishing: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/tag/salt-publishing/ Best British Short Stories: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/tag/best-british-short-stories/

Stories by MONA DASH, SARA SHERWOOD, EDWARD HOGAN, ROSANNA HILDYARD, USCHI GATWARD, TONY WHITE, MAX PORTER, BEN PESTER, ALICE M, SONYA MOOR, DAVID FRANKEL, LEON CRAIG, NEIL CAMPBELL, RZ BASCHIR, CHRISTOPHER BURNS, PAUL MCQUADE, SEÁN PADRAIC BIRNIE, WILL WILES, CHRIS VAUGHAN, SOPHIE MACKINTOSH.

When I read these stories, my thoughts will appear in the comment stream below…

Best British Short Stories 2021

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SALT PUBLISHING 2021

Edited by Nicholas Royle

My previous reviews of Nicholas Royle:  https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/14748-2/ Salt Publishing: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/tag/salt-publishing/ Best British Short Stories: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/tag/best-british-short-stories/

Stories by Tom Bromley, Yasmine Lever, Meave Haughey, Simon Okotie, AJ Ashworth, Uschi Gatward, Emma Bolland, Gary Budden, Mel Pryor, Hilaire, Alice Jolly, Julia Armfield, Roberta Dewa, John Foxx, Jen Calleja, Douglas Thompson, Isha Karki, Matthew Turner, Josephine Galvin, Iphgenia Baal.

For anyone interested in modern short stories, I would be grateful if they could please mention to others my endless journey into the stories of Elizabeth Bowen whom I consider to be the greatest experimental and traditional pioneer of these. I don’t think any reviewer has travelled such a public journey before, with amazing discoveries along the way, including her many elBOWs! This includes her collected, uncollected and once previously unpublished stories. I am currently about two shadowy thirds through this literary adventure, and it started here: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2021/10/05/the-collected-stories-of-elizabeth-bowen/

My real-time review of BBSS 2021 will appear in the comment stream below in due course…

PHOBIC: Modern Horror Stories

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COMMA PRESS 2007

Edited by Andy Murray

Previous reviews of this publisher: HERE

Work by Matthew Holness, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Hanif Kureishi, Christine Poulson, Jeremy Dyson, Emma Unsworth, Nicholas Royle, Paul Magrs, Lavinia Murray, Conrad Williams, Paul Cornell, Chaz Brenchley, Maria Roberts, Ramsey Campbell, Robert Shearman.

When I read this book, my thoughts will appear in the comment stream below…