SALT PUBLISHING 2024
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SALT PUBLISHING 2022
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Giselle Leeb: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/tag/giselle-leeb/
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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…
This shocked me, and I am not easily shocked. It shocked me, too, because I even thought I fully grasped what it fetched me against my will; it made a near sex-dead, near dead (full stop) body actually feel something for the first time in ages, the plot’s sexual aspects, its ‘oneiric’ ‘origami’, and the man, I thought somehow was called Keith, until I saw Keith Jarrett mentioned later and I checked back to see the man had no name, with his wife and daughter, the latter with her origami tableaux, say of a damsel fly, if not a wicker one, in parallel with his masseuse and her daughter, and the ‘play-acting’ as his body was folded and refolded, and I even wondered whether I did indeed grasp anything at all, but I do not wish to dwell on it in case I do grasp it fully. A rhombus of four women, two nymphets and two women. But who was whom? The geometry of sensuality’s fleshy-origami, via towel-prim dissection in Rembrandt, even ‘sixteenth century English miniatures’ as mobile phones seem too small for what they do, leading to a direct, almost inner-AI, contact with YouTube domes and Facebooking, a direct contact, via words, of truly felt SEX as an acronym of our in-the-head times while tantalisingly digging into the ever impossible gap between scrotum and thigh. And elsewhere.
I need to read it again, but I won’t.
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This story can be found in a brand new Brian Howell collection from Salt Publishing entitled THE MAN WHO LOVED KURAS
AND OTHER STORIES.
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My ongoing reviews of single stories by living authors: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2022/11/06/the-single-story-toward-a-novel-world/
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…
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…
Just received #WHITESPINES by @NicholasRoyle
@saltpublishing
cc @picadorbooks
My own old #Picador has long gone yellow!
My previous reviews of Nicholas Royle: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/14748-2/ and of Salt Publishing: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/tag/salt-publishing/
When I read this book, I may comment on it in the comment stream below…
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 Luke Brown, Irenosen Okojie, David Constantine, Zakia Uddin, Richard Lawrence Bennett, Nicola Freeman, Amanthi Harris, Andrew Hook, Hanif Kureishi, Sarah Schofield, Sonia Hope, Jeff Noon, Bridget Penney, Stephen Thompson, KJ Orr, Diana Powell, David Rose, NJ Stallard, Tim Etchells, Adrian Slatcher, Helen Mort, Robert Stone.
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SALT PUBLISHING 2019
Series Editor: Nicholas Royle
My previous Best British Short Stories reviews here: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/tag/best-british-short-stories/, of this publisher here: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/tag/salt-publishing/ and of this editor here: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/14748-2/
Includes stories by Melissa Wan, Stephen Sharp, Sally Jubb, Sam Thompson, Ann Quin, Nigel Humphreys, Adam Welch, Vesna Main, John Lanchester, Vicky Grut, Naomi Booth, Julia Armfield, Robert Mason, Elizabeth Baines, Lucie McKnight Hardy, Ruby Cowling, Ren Watson, Paul McQuade, Kieran Devaney, Sophie Mackintosh.
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