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June 13, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Campfire Tales at The Royal Hotel: Saturday June 11

Campfire Tales Saturday, June 11 The Royal Hotel, Featherston Campfire Tales, part of this year’s Booktown Festival in Featherston, ran across two nights at The Royal Hotel. A brilliant venue and setting for a set of ghostly stories read aloud by actors under candlelight. I went to Saturday’s show – the second performance. I’m told […]
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April 23, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

My New Ebook: Extra Stencil Threat – Short Fiction

I’ve published a brand-new collection of short stories – it’s available now as an e-Book. Just $0.99. And only from that link up above there. These stories are from right here at Off The Tracks but now you can get a curated set of stories to check out on your e-reader/Kindle app. The stories that make […]
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February 22, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Finding Delmore: Only In Dreams

Delmore Schwartz was an American poet, short story writer and scholar. His most famous story is In Dreams Begin Responsibilities. It was first published in 1937 and became the title for Schwartz’ first book. That was published a year later, he was 25. The story has been widely anthologised and is a classic piece of […]
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July 10, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Poems

I never knew if my mum ever read my poems. last weekend we caught up briefly. she couldn’t remember the name of the book she’d been reading, nor the author – but she definitely had it – somewhere – on her kindle. “you’d like her”, she said. “she writes all her stories a bit like […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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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 – […]
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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Anecdotes, Babies, Book, Book Review, Books, Essays, Fables, Literarture, Little Labors, Mom, Mother, Motherhood, Mum, New Directions, Parenting, Prose Poems, Rivka Galchen, Short Stories, Stories ·

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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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