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March 3, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Gabrielle Union: We’re Going To Need More Wine
We’re Going To Need More Wine: Stories Gabrielle Union Dey Street Books A memoir – in stories, We’re Going To Need More Wine is candid, well written. It’s both funny and heart-breaking. You know Gabrielle Union from so many movies and TV shows – but she was the ugly duckling at school, or so she […]Archive
September 21, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Litcrawl 2017: Program Announced
Litcrawl is the little Wellington writing festival that could. In fact it did. And still is. Here we are now nearing its fourth iteration – Litcrawl 2017 will run across November 10-12 and will feature local, national and international names in literature. As with previous years the festival seeks to create boutique events, to place […]Archive
May 3, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Authors I Admire: # 16 Willy Vlautin
In 2012 I was on holiday in San Francisco and I stumbled upon a reading at the famous City Lights bookstore. Well, we were visiting the store, checking it out when I saw a flyer advertising the reading. We were back there later that week. Willy Vlautin was there as a friend of the main act, […]Archive
October 12, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Bill Direen: Enclosures 2
Enclosures 2 Bill Direen Percutio Bill Direen’s latest “novel” is another excursion through cross-genre literary wanderings. Here in fact is not one novel but separate instances of poetry, stories, journal entries and narrative fiction combined under the pages of a single volume. It’s a website-approach to print and publishing, the banner being the theme – […]Archive
September 7, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Rivka Galchen: Little Labors
Little Labors Rivka Galchen New Directions Rivka Galchen has won awards and acclaim for her novel and short-story collections as well as for witty, wordy and worldly magazine pieces. Here she examines – in pithy asides as much as anything – the world of the mother who writes; who wishes to write and would sometimes […]Archive
July 3, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Nick Drnaso: Beverly
Beverly Nick Drnaso Drawn and Quarterly Drawn (mostly) in and around a set of boxes – this is American ennui, the suburban inertia, there’s no real desire to be better in these stories, no hope, no hype, but no coasting either – just people in the middle. Dreary, weird, detached lives with sexual repression barely […]Archive
May 17, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Ohope Beach School Choir: Bird Song
Ohope Beach School Choir Bird Song Ohope Beach School The Ohope Beach School Choir – an open choir featuring years 0-6 (ages 5-10) – was asked to perform at the celebration for the 200th Brown Kiwi Release in the Mahy Reserve at Ohope Beach. Seeing the opportunity to turn this into a project, teacher Jenny […]Archive
December 20, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Masayoshi Fujita: Apologues
Masayoshi Fujita Apologues Erased Tapes A shade-cloth of sound, draped over a movie that isn’t actually there – to hang as perceptual/perpetual soundtrack and softening hue, this is the second solo album by Fujita, the second set of pieces to combine a classical composer’s approach with that of a jazz improviser. Here, again, is Fujita […]Archive
July 24, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Lydia Davis: Can’t and Won’t
Can’t and Won’t: Stories Lydia Davis Farrar, Straus and Giroux In her first collection in over a decade Lydia Davis continues on with her unique approach to the short story. Her stories are postcards, single sentences, prose-poems, lists, letters, translated notes, found dialogues, overheard conversations, remembered dreams – they might be anything but stories. You […]Archive
June 15, 2014 by Simon Sweetman