In the legendary movie ‘Down by law’ by Jim Jarmush three refugees (Roberto benigni, Tom Waits and John Lurie) ride a small boat in unkown territory. When they reach a familiar location, one of them exclaims: “We Keep Going in Circles”. At this exact moment the boat begins to sink. And so it is with destructive habits and vices we are unable -or even unwilling- to shake off. (more…)
Archive for the ‘Short story’ Category
Too gentle for (t)his World
Saturday, September 13th, 2008Reunions
Monday, August 25th, 2008
The New Yorker asked several authors to read a short story. In this episode Richard Ford reads Reunion a story written by John Cheever
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New work by Coetzee
Friday, July 6th, 2007
Machiavelli says that if as a ruler you accept that your every action must pass moral scrutiny, you will without fail be defeated by an opponent who submits to no such moral test. To hold on to power, you have not only to master the crafts of deception and treachery but to be prepared to use them where necessary.
The full excerpt can be read at The New York Review of Books which has published an excerpt from Coetzee’s new novel the Diary of a Bad Year, to be published in January 2008.
What you pawn I will redeem
Sunday, August 6th, 2006
One day you have a home and the next you don't, but I'm not going to tell you my particular reasons for being homeless, because it's my secret story, and Indians have to work hard to keep secrets from hungry white folks
Read the short story What you pawn I will redeem by Sherman Alexie at The New Yorker
Fewer Scruples [Javier Marías]
Sunday, July 2nd, 2006
I was so strapped for cash that, two days earlier, I’d gone for a screen test for a porn movie and was amazed to see how many other women aspired to one of those roles with absolutely no dialogue, or, rather, only exclamations.
Read full story at Barcelona Review
The cutest little Mexican girl [Kerouac]
Sunday, July 2nd, 2006
Jack Kerouac, “The Mexican Girl”, a short story read by Josh Hamilton
“I had bought my ticket and was waiting for the L.A. bus when all of a sudden I saw the cutest little Mexican girl in slacks come cutting across my sight. . . .”
Click to hear the full story.
Uncollected writings [J.D.Salinger]
Thursday, June 29th, 2006
The most famous recluse has not published any new work for over forty years. Therefore we have to resort to what he has written in the past. The following website contains all four of Salinger’s books plus all the short stories that have appeared in magazines, from his first published story The Young Folks in Story XVI until the last short story Hapworth 16, 1924 in The New Yorker .
Click for a list of the writings of; J.D.Salinger
1001 Great Stories, Volume 2
Wednesday, June 28th, 2006
the editor envisions this short-fiction series as an entertaining and educational project that will help English-language readers discover the joys of international writing and to recognize their own writiers within that international context.
For full information go to Green Integer