From The Willesden Herald
This week’s story, “She Said He Said” by Hanif Kureishi, is now online. https://t.co/zoSw05Vz1T
— New Yorker Fiction (@NYerFiction) July 15, 2019
Text and reading by the author in The New Yorker online (limit on free access applies)
“Hanif Kureishi wrote the screenplays for My Beautiful Laundrette and Le Week-End, among other films. He has published eight novels, including, most recently, The Nothing.”
“… The main drag was the daily parade for his morbidity. Limerick, in the bone evil of its winter, and here came Con McCarthy, haunted-looking, in his enormous, suffering overcoat. The way he sidled in, with the long, pale face, and the hot, emotional eyes. …”
Read the story in full in the Irish Times.
From Being Various: New Irish Short Stories, edited by Lucy Caldwell and published by Faber & Faber. Kevin Barry’s latest book is Night Boat to Tangier (Canongate).
The Willesden Herald New Short Stories Story of the Month
July 2019: Curtains by Charles Lambert
“When Helen gets back from the hospital the house is empty. She leaves her weekend bag by the door and wanders from room to room, the kitchen, the hall, the living room, and then upstairs, pausing for breath on the halfway landing, her hands folded over her stomach. She rests her hand on the door to David’s study…”
Charles Lambert was born in the United Kingdom but has lived in Italy for most of his adult life. His most recent novel is Prodigal, recently longlisted for the Polari Prize 2019. His previous novel, The Children’s Home, was praised by Kirkus Reviews as ‘a one-of-a-kind literary horror story’, while Two Dark Tales, published in October 2017, was described by Owen King as the work of a ‘terrific devious story teller’. Earlier books include three novels, a collection of prize-winning short stories and a memoir, With a Zero at its Heart, selected by the Guardian as one of its top ten books from 2014.
Continuing our retrospective series, “Curtains” is included in Willesden Herald: New Short Stories 6 together with stories by Eliza Robertson, Virginia Gilbert, Nick Holdstock, Geraldine Mills and others.
“A disturbing and powerful story about growing up and coming to terms with life’s realities. Read by Carolyn Pickles. Produced by Simon Richardson.” (BBC Sounds, Summer Stories)
A typical (and typically wonderful) Lawrence story linking human desire to the relentless struggle, conflict and pathos of animals in nature. A powerful but deathly joy found in embracing the second best available mate. Listen
The New Yorker’s Fiction Issue is out today! Read Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “Conduction”: “I was fresh out of Virginia, fresh out of the pit, my remarkable escape still alive in my mind.” https://t.co/cilQdJ3qji
— New Yorker Fiction (@NYerFiction) June 3, 2019
The flagship annual summer feast of fiction that keeps readers and writers delighted and hopeful respectively. See This Week In Fiction for many more short stories, interviews and readings.
The Willesden Herald New Short Stories Story of the Month
June 2019: Set Dance by Angela Sherlock
“Suddenly, very precisely placing the oddity of individual lives in the perspective of a bigger, slower rural pattern where everything can be accepted…Angela Sherlock’s Set Dance, a very unusual story, a very interesting story.” (Maggie Gee)
Angela Sherlock has worked in engineering and in education, but now lives in Devon where she writes full time. She has published reviews and articles but now concentrates on fiction. ‘Set Dance’ comes from her collection, To know they dreamed, which explores the Irish diaspora. She is currently working on a collection that takes its themes from elements of the periodic table. Her stories have appeared in literary journals and anthologies, the most recent online in Virtual Zine. (www.angelasherlock.com)
“Set Dance” is also available in Willesden Herald: New Short Stories 5 together with stories by eleven other outstanding writers.
The Willesden Herald New Short Stories Story of the Month
May 2019: Rash by Megan Taylor
“The ancient hinged mirror reflected back three Frans, each one streaked. Beyond her, the walls of her bedroom were a faded peach, her teenage posters removed long ago, but in the lamp’s glow, the walls appeared duskier than usual and Fran also looked muted, almost satiny, despite the rash.”
Megan Taylor is the author of three novels, ‘How We Were Lost’ (Flame Books, 2007), ‘The Dawning’ (Weathervane Press, 2010) and ‘The Lives of Ghosts’ (Weathervane Press, 2012), as well as a collection, ‘The Woman Under the Ground and Other Stories’ (Weathervane Press, 2014), which includes her Willesden Herald’s shortlisted ‘Rash’.
Recent short stories have been placed in several competitions, and appeared in a variety of publications, including Dark Lane’s 6th and 7th anthologies and Neon. A fourth novel, ‘We Wait’, is due out from Eyrie Press in 2019. (Website: www.megantaylor.info)
“Rash” is also available in Willesden Herald: New Short Stories 8 together with stories by nine other outstanding writers.
On the May New Yorker Fiction Podcast, Emma Cline reads and discusses “The Metal Bowl” by Miranda July, from a 2017 issue of the magazine.
— New Yorker Fiction (@NYerFiction) May 1, 2019
Elena Ferrante’s Art of Fiction interview is free this week. Find out what else we’ve unlocked:
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This week’s features include an interview with Elena Ferrante, a poem by Jorge Luis Borges and a story by Haruki Murakami.
“They are flames, moving up the hill from the village, torches lighting faces in the crowd. The voices build.”
Don’t miss our fantastic new #weekendread by @HenriettaRI ‘Animalia Paradoxa’ from her new collection of the same name out now on @bhousepress
— For Books’ Sake (@forbookssake) April 15, 2019
Direct link: Animalia Paradoxa by Henrietta Rose-Innes
Link to buy the book from the publisher: Boiler House Press
