I’ve tried to be a bit more pro-active this year with my short fiction recommendations, tweeting the stories I really enjoyed on the @lastshortstory account.* Because I have a full time job, a family, do two podcasts and enjoy things other than reading – such as playing Fifa 12 – there was no way I …
Monthly Archive: January 2012
Jan 29
Writer and The Critic Episode 15 is live!!!!
The usual drill – go here and stream the podcast or subscribe via iTunes. And yes, I know this our longest episode ever. But as Kirstyn says in the show notes, this is what happens when you review two wonderful books that inspire crunchy topics. Oh, and I’ve just set up a twitter account for …
Jan 24
My favourite reviewers on the Web
So, following all that kerfuffle last week, I thought I’d mention the reviewers who I read on a regular basis and who inform my book-buying. I’ll go out on a limb here and say that David Hebblethwaite is the best reviewer on the interwebs.* Although he has a genre background, he often reviews literary novels …
Jan 21
Shooting the Poo Episode 11 is UP (Featuring John Richards)
In a decision that he will live to regret in many years to come, John Richards joined Shooting the Poo to discuss his new ABC 1 comedy Outland. If you’ve avoided listening to an episode of STP before now, this one is pretty shitty so I wouldn’t bother starting here. See what I did there!!! …
Jan 16
The Art of the Mean Review
I’m back from Perth. It was lovely, thanks for asking. While I was away, there were a couple of interesting posts about the art of reviewing. The first one was by Martin Lewis, who celebrated his tenth anniversary as a reviewer by re-visiting the structure and content of his first review. It’s a long post, …
Jan 05
Episode 10 of Shooting the Poo is up…
… and this month we delve into the short fiction worlds of O. Henry (who I couldn’t stand) and Flannery O’Connor (who I fell in love with). We do use the word N-word a bit, it’s mostly unavoidable when discussing O’Connor’s work, but I think the podcast is definitely well worth a listen. Hope you …
Jan 03
And now… for the first post of the year
Happy 2012 to all of you out there. For those looking forward to the Mayan prophecy coming to pass on 21-12-12… you can fuck off. Or you can read this site, which sees the Prophecy as a time of transcedence rather than the wholesale destruction of humanity. Whatever makes you happy. Anyway, I watched the …
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