Why "The Unfortunates"?
"Only a few years ago, it was Jennings schoolboy stories that I brought you. Now, I pack avant-garde books: Tom Mallin, Alan Burns, a...
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dodmill
- Aug 12, 2022
- 1 min
Scene
My short story describing a scene from an imaginary film is available to read here: https://www.thelondonmagazine.org/fiction-scene-by-de...
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dodmill
- Feb 26, 2022
- 0 min
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dodmill
- Feb 3, 2022
- 1 min
Always Somewhere Else
My short story 'Always Somewhere else' is available to read online here:
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dodmill
- Nov 28, 2021
- 3 min
Pupa by J. O. Morgan (Henningham Family Press)
It doesn't take long for J. O. Morgan to establish the essential strangeness of both the setting and the central characters of this...
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dodmill
- Nov 21, 2021
- 4 min
Stories We Tell Our Children by Marc Nash (Lendal Press)
By deciding to create an entire short collection around the many ways in which children are deceived, placated, fobbed-off, used to...
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dodmill
- Oct 3, 2021
- 3 min
Three Novels by Ágota Kristóf (Grove Press)
The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels by Ágota Kristóf, Alan Sheridan (Translator of The Notebook), David Watson...
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dodmill
- Sep 26, 2021
- 3 min
The Bureau of Past Management by Iris Hanika, translated by Abigail Wender (V&Q Books)
For Hans Frambach, the middle-aged character who is central to The Bureau of Past Management by Iris Hanika, translated by Abigail Wender...
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dodmill
- Aug 2, 2021
- 3 min
The Piano Teacher, by Elfriede Jelinek, translated by Joachim Neugroschel (Serpent's Tail)
'The Piano Teacher' is like a piece of chamber music; a dissonant, serial composition with cold, confused Erika on piano, Mother on...
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dodmill
- Jul 4, 2021
- 5 min
Florilegia by Annabel Dover (Moist)
First, there is the image, then the thought about what we are looking at, followed by any associations that form from what we are seeing....
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dodmill
- Jun 13, 2021
- 3 min
Insignificance by James Clammer (Galley Beggar Press)
Life hasn't been so good for Joseph Fobes, this past while. Both life and his job as a plumber have got Joe into some very awkward and...
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dodmill
- May 27, 2021
- 2 min
Nostalgia by Mircea Cărtărescu, translated by Julian Semilian (New Directions/Penguin)
I first read Mircea Cărtărescu's wondrous novel, ''Nostalgia' back in 2012, seven years after it had been published in translation by New...
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dodmill
- Jan 9, 2021
- 3 min
A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride (Galley Beggar/Faber and Faber)
Oh, my emotions. My mixed emotions. My emotions mixed with dread. My dread that she wouldn't stop. Her not stopping. Stopping me from...
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dodmill
- Jan 3, 2021
- 4 min
Mr. Beethoven by Paul Griffiths (Henningham Family Press)
All through last year, 250 years after his birth, Beethoven was remembered in as many ways as the year allowed, though not often with the...
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dodmill
- Dec 27, 2020
- 5 min
Only a Lodger ... and Hardly That: A Fictional Autobiography by Vesna Main (Seagull books)
"I remember", we say. Then we begin to tell our version of what we can recall, filtered by how we felt at the time, what they failed to...
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