by Euan | May 28, 2016 | Currently reading
One of my very favourite podcasts, Book Fight—subtitle: “tough love for literature”—is an irreverent and often hilarious show about books and writing from two of the editors at Barrelhouse magazine. If you like the sound of a podcast which successfully...
by Euan | May 25, 2016 | Front page, Uncategorized
A little while ago, while in the process of spending far too much money in my favourite magazine shop, Athenaeum Nieuwscentrum in Amsterdam, I picked up a copy of Peer, a brand-new arts magazine based out of the city. It was an impressive first issue. Cut to a couple...
by Euan | Mar 13, 2016 | Reviews
Usually, a large part of the decision to read or not to read a particular book rests on what that book is presented as ‘being about’. Interviewers spend a good deal of time trying to prise this ‘aboutness’ out of an author. Blurb writers are presumably graduates of...
by Euan | Mar 2, 2016 | Front page, Issues
For issue 15 we asked submitting authors and poets to include proof they had recently supported a literary magazine. The outcome was more wonderful than we had any right to expect: an engaged bunch of writers sending in some of the strongest writing we’ve ever...
by Euan | Feb 26, 2016 | Reviews
There has been a glut of recent books – I am thinking of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle, or Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan series, or Ben Lerner’s 10:04 – that dramatise the process of writing. Salinger’s Letters, the new novel by the Danish writer Nils Schou, does...
