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RICHARD HOLT What You Might Find. Reviewed by Alexander Wells

RICHARD HOLT What You Might Find. Reviewed by Alexander Wells

by NRB | 3 Jul 2018 | Fiction | 0 comments

Richard Holt explores the possibilities of microfiction with great inventiveness and style. The short short stories collected in Richard Holt’s startling first book, What You Might Find, are precisely constructed and darkly surprising. With impressive economy and...
ROBERT OLEN BUTLER AND TARA L MASIH (Eds) The Best Small Fictions 2015. Reviewed by Allan Drew

ROBERT OLEN BUTLER AND TARA L MASIH (Eds) The Best Small Fictions 2015. Reviewed by Allan Drew

by NRB | 26 Jan 2016 | Fiction | 0 comments

The Best Small Fictions 2015 showcases microfiction and the potency of small things. What happens to time, space and meaning when fiction gets brief and small? This is an international anthology of 55 pieces of sub-1000-word fiction – microfiction, although there are...
LYDIA DAVIS Can’t and Won’t. Reviewed by Phoebe Chen

LYDIA DAVIS Can’t and Won’t. Reviewed by Phoebe Chen

by NRB | 20 Jan 2015 | Fiction | 0 comments

In her ninth collection of flash fiction Lydia Davis writes with complex emotional ambiguity about the spaces in between.  Lydia Davis began her career as a translator of French literature, and perhaps as a kind of reprieve from the unwieldy sentences...
ANGELA MEYER Captives. Reviewed by Michelle McLaren

ANGELA MEYER Captives. Reviewed by Michelle McLaren

by NRB | 3 Jul 2014 | Fiction | 0 comments

Angela Meyer’s microfictions expose the shiny bare bones of narrative. It took me a while to find Captives in the bookshop, but finally I discovered it, a tiny little thing, sitting in a special display of its own. As it turns out, this separation is rather...
             

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