Peachybooks (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hotel World is less of a novel, and more of a collection of interlinked short stories but that doesn't make it any less brilliant. As you can probably tell, I really, really liked this! I wasn't sure I would, it was supposed to be the book I dipped in and out of at spare moments but it was impossible to put down once I'd started! It is the stories of five different people who have a connection with...
The Reader Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
... recent times – take for instance names such as Iain Banks , Carol Ann Duffy , Irvine Welsh and Ali Smith . There is an absolute wealth of poetry with a distinctive Scottish flavour, as well as picturesque poems that vividly bring to life the nature of Scotland with its many glens and lochs; a great place to check out is the online catalogue of The Scottish Poetry Library for information...
TaniaWrites (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
... it's a fantastic achievement, especially with a judge whose short stories are as breathtaking as Ali Smith. And there's more.... did the eagle-eyed spot an addition to the Bridport Prize website for 2010? On the side menu, under Short Stories and Poetry is... Flash fiction!!! This makes me very very very happy. It says something about the status of flash fiction, for one, since this is the...
Reading matters (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
... Harris Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry The Accidental by Ali Smith The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro The Plot Against America by Phillip Roth The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown Atonement by Ian McEwan The full list is available on The Times website.
fourth edition (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
... No, I didn’t like it and I don’t care if this book changed your life, omg. 29: The Accidental by Ali Smith. This one really got book people talking but I left my copy at Aberdeen Bus Station on purpose as it left me absolutely cold. 25: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon. For some people this book was a revelation (you know who you are). I couldn’t connect with...
Art as Authority (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
from the press release ZOOM November 21 - December 19, 2009 Torrance Art Museum 3320 Civic Center Drive Torrance, CA 90503 310.618.6340 mpresneill@torrrnet.com www.torranceartmuseum.com Gallery hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 11am-5pm ZOOM artists: David Adey , Kelly Barrie, York Chang, Allison Cortson, Roni Feldman, Tony Maher, Daniel Nevers, Nobuhito Nishigawara, Andrew Schoultz, Christina Shurts, Ali...
PinkNews.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... writers are out lesbians, whether they're writing about them or not. I'm thinking of people like Ali Smith or Val McDermid."If you were to look at the statistics, the books addressing lesbian issues are always in the minority, but it's certainly better than it used to be."The author, who has been twice nominated for the Booker Prize for Fiction, featured lesbian characters in her first four...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
... lives. It must stop, now. Kamila Shamsie Jeanette Winterson Gillian Slovo Ian Rankin Nick Hornby Ali Smith Hanif Kureishi David Mitchell Andrea Levy Hari Kunzru Joanne Harris Mohsin Hamid Liz Jensen Nadeem Aslam Chris Cleave Esther Freud Patrick McGrath Louise Doughty Tash Aw Hisham Matar Tahmima Anam Toby Litt Nikita Lalwani Charles Palliser Pankaj Mishra Lisa Appignanesi Peter Hobbs Rachel...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
It was not long ago that the short story was little sister to the novel, but lately there has been a transformation. With major-league prizes such as the National Short Story competition, the short story is coming into its own again. Claire Keegan and Lorrie Moore have made their reputations on shorts alone; Alice Munro and Ali Smith have made it a highly regarded and popular form.
