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“Milano–Roma–Palermo,” by Tim Parks
I’m scarcely sure what nationality I really am these days. All I know is that for the past thirty years I’ve lived and worked in northern Italy, and like most of the people around me I know little of the South, though the South is always present to us as an idea—a bad one, for [...]
Writers: Tim Parks
Tagged Belle lettres, English
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“Before Arbour Hill,” by Anakana Schofield
Before Arbour Hill there were three of them. There was his mother. A semi-detached, in an unremarkable cul-de-sac, housed them, with souvenirs from a holiday in Portugal on the mantlepiece. Biscuits in the tin, sheets in the hot press, and holy water inside the front door. They were looking for one suspect in connection with [...]
Writers: Anakana Schofield
Tagged Canada, Fiction
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Not Fair: Artist Andrea Bowers Writes to the Organizers of the Frieze Art Fair
The artist Andrea Bowers this week sent this letter to the organizers of the Frieze Art Fair, which opens today on Randall’s Island in New York City. Bowers’ great cardboard monuments to American workers are on view at the Fair, in the booths of the Susan Velmeitter and Kaufmann Repetto Galleries, and are featured in [...]
Writers: Andrea Bowers
Tagged American, Art
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“Karel,” from “3 Kinds of Exile,” a new play by John Guare
THE ACTOR appears and talks directly to us: This is a story that a friend of mine told to me a few years ago. I was sitting in his house in England. I was going through some personal troubles and a solution to them stymied me. I brought my bag of woes to him. He [...]
“this has no title,” by James Kelman
Then the man coming along the aisle, a big heavy fellow, he sat down next to me. I knew he would. I had made the space. He noticed I had and nearly smiled, just how he looked around the eyes like it was almost a smile and hoped I would notice it. A recognition of [...]
Writers: James Kelman
Tagged Fiction, Scottish
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Anakana Schofield wins Amazon.ca First Novel Award
Last year at AWP we stumbled past the booth of Dan Wells’s smart and original Canada independent, Biblioasis, which had been recommended to us by those clever guys over at Dalkey. Dan described his operation and then pressed into our arms, with an ardent fire in his eyes, a copy of Anakana Schofield’s freshly minted [...]
Writers: Anakana Schofield
“for the marathon dead and wounded,” James Stotts
mid april passing manchester the cherries have no stones washing their wings in the river wind not nearly as material as those bald merrimack pylons i am the maculate receipt of bestial capital and care barely thirty but i can already feel the worms between my legs the black mold fastened to my bones [...]
Writers: James Stotts
Tagged American, Poetry
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Welcome Les Murray!
photo by Graham Carter Les Murray is in the States on a rare visit of reading and teaching. He will appear at the Poetry Foundation on April 25, details here. Little Star has been honored to publish lots of recent poems by Les Murray. To celebrate his visit, we reproduce the whole crop in [...]
Writers: Les Murray
Tagged Australia, Poetry
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Different Animals, a new play by Abby Rosebrock
JESSICA Obviously I’ve heard that story since I was a kid, but the way you told it, I felt like I knew him— WILL Peter? That’s pretty high praise— JESSICA Like when people kept asking if he was with Jesus, and Peter kept being like, I don’t even know that guy. WILL (Agreeing) He was [...]
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Bumper crop of classical Japanese verse in English
Suddenly this spring, an unexpected flowering of Japanese verse in English. Two Copper Canyon editions of W. S. Merwin: Ten years in the making, the first complete bilingual edition of haiku from Yosa Buson (1716–1783), the successor to Basho and one of the great Haikuists of the Edo period, translated in collaboration with Takako Lento [...]
Writers: Basho, David Young, Muso Soseki, W. S. Merwin, Yosa Buson
Tagged Japanese, Poetry
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