Category Archives: News
Special Summer Double Issue of Our Mobile App Little Star Weekly!
This week we have a more-than-usually big and juicy bite of reading for your long train rides and cicada-filled afternoons on the porch swing. Our weekly app for iPad and iPhone offers up an extra-big dollop of Little Starrish writing to while away the hours. Our theme, more or less, is the carnal and its […]
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A long short story from Tim Parks
The day is coming, it is not far off now, when I will be overwhelmed by anguish. This premonition has been with me for some time. What do I mean, overwhelmed by anguish? I am not sure. It is a formula I use to describe what is coming. I expect a moment when a balance […]
Writers: Tim Parks
Little Star’s comment to the FCC on Net Neutrality
I started a small literary magazine in 2009, on the promise that digital communications had created for minority interests to find their audience and grow together. I have worked in literary publishing for over thirty years, and in all that time I had been contemplating such a magazine and preparaing for it, but until the […]
Tagged Net Neutrality
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New from Ingrid Winterbach
“For any type of trauma, mental or physical, even if it was incurred a long time ago,” said Basil. “For disorders of the blood, for festering conditions, black-and-blue spots, or a tendency to bleed. To prevent the formation of pus. For evil-smelling secretions. If the muscles are tender and feel bruised. For abscesses that fail […]
Writers: Ingrid Winterbach
Tagged Fiction, South Africa
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Welcome John Zinsser!
Welcome to our new summer curator at Little Star Gallery, John Zinsser! Zinsser is a veteran New York painter who has had more than thirty solo exhibitions in the US and Europe. He co-founded Journal of Contemporary Art in 1987. A lecturer on contemporary exhibitions at the New School, he has also been a contributing […]
Writers: John Zinsser
Neighboring World, Yakov Druskin
And there is no end and cannot stop / and everything comes out so that there is no break / and flows like water and finding an obstruction in ice / and the sky is grey / and from here the trams on the bridge go slower / and the bridge itself has lengthened and […]
Writers: Eugene Ostashevsky, Yakov Druskin
Wendell Berry, a letter to Gary Snyder, thinking about religion
I think we have to acknowledge the possibility that practical experience can be condensed to good purpose into moral law: Do not let the topsoil wash away. That does not have to be stated as a moral law. It’s a “universal.” It could also be stated: “God has forbidden us to let the topsoil wash […]
Writers: Wendell Berry
Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, in praise of analepsis
It is the custom of my fellow writers sometimes to go back and leap over a period of time and connect an event that happened before it to an event that happened after it. This is called analepsis (tawriyah), that is, “taking backward” (waraʾ). They may also start by mentioning everything about the protagonist from […]
Writers: Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq
New Juan José Saer
Each of them surveys the landscape with the same withdrawn expression he might have assumed had he been alone in this deserted place, the details each observes not coinciding with the other’s, each of them assembling it therefore in his own way, as though it were two distinct places, the island, the sky, the trees, […]
Writers: Juan José Saer
Cairo evening, 1952, by Sonallah Ibrahim
Father lights a cigarette. I sit at my desk. Pour some seeds from the tube out in front of me. I open the English reader. He finishes drinking his coffee, gets off the bed, and throws a towel over his shoulder He lights a lamp and heads toward the bathroom to wash for prayer. When […]
Writers: Sonallah Ibrahim