Who are you?
I don’t know.
[Don’t say that, say something humble and brave, about wandering and not being lost and how I still haven’t found what I’m looking for. Quote a poet. Or a philosopher. Do not quote Star Trek. Please.]
I know who I am but I’m not going to tell you.
What do you write?
I write […]

Who are you?
It’s only when I crossed 40 that I realized I should do the thing I love the most, to write. So you could say it’s only since the last few years that I have no hesitation in calling myself a writer.
What do you write?
At the moment equal doses of fiction and nonfiction. Some […]

Julian Barnes writes in The Guardian about going back to read Émile Zola’s Thérèse Raquin, because the play was about to open at the National Theatre. He finds that 150 years after it was written, the novel — about two lovers who kill a husband and by killing the husband kill their own desire and […]

I just read a story by Katrina Denza. “Snake Dreams“. It’s up at the Storyglossia site. It came 1st Runner Up in the Storyglossia Fiction Prize 2006. It starts off like this:
As soon as I pull into my father’s driveway, a light goes on inside the condo. I don’t have to wonder what […]

Another great book review by Apostolos Vasilakis over at Greekworks.com. This time it’s a review of George Pelecanos’s The Night Gardener. Vasilakis begins the review with a quote from Petros Markaris, the Greek crime writer (Deadline in Athens) who was the subject of Vasilakis’s previous reviews. The quote:
[The] detective novel becomes more and more social….It’s […]

Just spied an article in The Journal News on Doris Lessing’s upcoming novel The Cleft.
She told The Journal News that:
I saw a science magazine which said that the basic human type is female and that men came along afterward,” she explains. “You have an original community of females, on a seashore, very conventional. Then, one […]

In any genuine piece of fiction, the plot is like the surface personality or external body of a human being; it serves to contain the subconscious and viscera of the story. The plot is something you “see” with your rational mind, but the unconscious and the viscera–what you can smell and feel without being able […]

The much anticipated translation of poems and prose of Greek poet of despair Kostas Karyotakis by Keith Taylor and William W. Reader has been published. Taylor and Reader have been collaborating on this project for years and won the 2004 Keeley and Sherrard Award from Poetry Greece magazine for two translations.

From the publisher:
KOSTAS KARYOTAKIS, Battered […]

Meanwhile, in a previous issue of Odyssey magazine, I’ve a brief article that introduces some books one might like to read if one is keen on getting to know Greece/Greeks through fiction.
Click on the magazine cover to get the PDF:

…is out now.

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