Skyline 2: six score years

9 January, 20149 January, 2014 Calmgrove

From Tower Bridge (1894) to the Shard (2013) nearly 120 years

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F Scott Fitzgerald: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Stories Penguin Books 2010 (2008) This selection of seven short stories, which includes pieces published in 1920 and 1922, plus one from 1932, was issued to coincide with the title story’s appearance as an Oscar-nominated film. Written in the interwar period often termed the Jazz Age, their abiding scent […]

Hibernation ends

This is a brief shout-out for Zenrinji, a sister blog dedicated to short form creative writing. This includes examples of haiku and senryu (Japanese micropoetry that partly inspired the name of the blog), limericks and doggerel of various kinds; and also so-called flash fiction, which features short stories of varied length but mostly under about […]

Playacting

Dodie Smith: It Ends with Revelations Corsair 2012 (1967) July 1967. The Sexual Offences Act 1967 was passed in England and Wales, decriminalising homosexual acts between consenting males aged 21 and over. In the same year Dodie Smith, now aged 71, published It Ends with Revelations (this title a quote from Oscar Wilde’s A Woman of […]

What he’d learned

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Not long ago – it may be yesterday – there were two children called Alice and Bran. Now Alice and Bran lived in the last house at the end of the estate on the outskirts of a large town. You won’t have heard of this town, so it probably doesn’t matter…

A dark tale for a dark age

Kazuo Ishiguro: The Buried Giant Faber & Faber 2016 (2015) It’s extraordinary that for a book with this title the only mention of a burial place for such a fearsome creature comes very late in the book, and yet the reader gets the feeling that this novel is not really about this giant but another, one which […]

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