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Tag Archives: Short Stories
A Few Strange New Hybridities in Literature
Of late, my rather strange and serpentine reading habits have yielded up examples of what might be called literary hybridities, where genres and styles work to subsume or coalesce. Of course, such genre bending is not even remotely new but … Continue reading →
Posted in Literary Criticism, Literature, Recommended reads, Reviews
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Tagged Absurdism, Abuse, Angela Carter, Aqueous Books, Art, avant garde, Basil King, Beloved, Bhanu Kapil, Black Mountain, Blasphemy, Book Review, Borges, Carolyn Zaikowski, City Lights, City Lights Press, Colonialism, Daniel Staniforth, Dzanc Books, Eco Poetry, ekphrasis, Elizabeth Robinson, Escapist, faery, Fantasy, fiction, Flash Fiction, Genre, George Gissing, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Graphic novels, Green Man, Hieroglyphs, Historical novel, History, Hoffman, Hybrid fiction, hybrid literature, Hybrid poetry, iain sinclair, Imagination, Jack Collom, Jonathan Carroll, Kafka, Kenneth Patchen, Klee, Learning to Draw, Leaves of Grass, Literature, Marsh Hawk Press, Martin Anderson, Mayflies, Monkey Puzzle, Monkey Puzzle Press, mythology, Nancy Stohlman, Native American, Nature Poetry, novel, Nymph, Omnidawn, Paintings, Pastorale, poetry, Pure Slush Books, Red Fox, River, Romantic, Ros Barber, Sara Veglahn, Saxon Churches, Scandinavian, Selah Saterstrom, Shakespeare, Shearsman Books, Short Stories, Skylight Press, small press, Surrealism, Thames, Toni Morrison, Underwater, Victorian Novel, Vixen, Voyeurism, Walt Whitman, Wilkie Collins, Women in White
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A Review of Stoning the Devil on The Feminist Wire
The following is a short snippet of Jill Di Donato’s review of Stoning the Devil by Garry Craig Powell, published by The Feminist Wire on April 10, 2013. The full review, entitled Western Novelist Paints a Racy Portrait of Middle Eastern … Continue reading →
Posted in British Literature, Literary Criticism, Literature, Recommended reads, Reviews
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Tagged Arab, Arab culture, Beyonce, Book Review, British fiction, British Literature, British Novel, colonial perspective, Experimental novel, feminism, Feminist, fiction, Frank O'Conor Award, Garry Craig Powell, Gulf, Islam, Jill Di Donato, Lena Dunham, middle eastern culture, middle eastern women, middle-east, Muslim, novel, novel in stories, politics, Sex and violence, Short Stories, Stoning the Devil, The Feminist Wire, UAE, United Arab Emirates, Women
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Chris Hill on Skylight Press
Chris Hill, an exciting new British fiction writer, grew up on Walney Island just off the coast of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, at the northern tip of Morecambe Bay. This “bladder-wracked” Island, the largest of the Furness Island group, forms the backdrop … Continue reading →
Posted in British Literature, Literature, New authors, New books, Recommended reads
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Tagged author, book, Bridport Prize, British fiction, British Literature, British Novel, contemporary fiction, Crime, crime correspondent, Daily Telegraph, English fiction, English literature, English novel, experimental fiction, fiction, fred and rose west, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, Journalism, Kate Atkinson, Literature, literature festival, morecambe bay, Newspaper, novel, novel prize, Short Stories, Song of the Sea God, Walney Island, writing, Yeovil Prize
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Stoning the Devil by Garry Craig Powell
When Edward Said penned Orientalism in 1978 he professed that Western attitudes towards the Middle East were built on a “constellation of false assumptions” – highlighting the “subtle and persistent Eurocentric prejudice against Arabo-Islamic peoples and their culture.” What has … Continue reading →
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Tagged Anita Diamant, Arab culture, Arab History, British fiction, British Literature, British Novel, Cultural Studies, eight months on ghazzah street, fiction, Garry Craig Powell, Hilary Mantel, Islam, Lawrence Durrell, Literary novel, Louise Erdrich, middle-east, Naomi Shihab Nye, novel, novel in stories, Orientalism, Persian Gulf, Post Colonialism, Religion, Short Stories, Stoning the Devil, travel, United Arab Emirates, United Arab Emirites
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Garry Craig Powell on Skylight Press
Born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, Garry Craig Powell was quite the seasoned nomad before he became a writer – something he expresses succinctly on his website biography: “Not until I was in my forties did I really dedicate my life to … Continue reading →
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Tagged Arab culture, Arkansas, British fiction, British Literature, England, fiction, Garry Craig Powell, literary fiction, middle-east, novel, novel in stories, Portugal, Short Stories, Spain, Stoning the Devil, travel, United Arab Emirates
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