What African Fiction Is Good For So Penguin is starting up a line of African fiction titles. Great news, right? Not according to Akin Ajayi in The Guardian, who says the first 5 titles are far too old to be useful, since none of them were published in the past 15 years. Matt Cheney has other thoughts. In the process of highly . . . continue reading What African Fiction Is Good For Submitted: on 4th Mar 2010 Tags: · The · Up · What · Fiction · Fiction Titles · news · Published · Reading · The Guardian · UpW. W. Norton releases landmark anthology of Latino "sudden" fiction Sudden Fiction Latino: Short-Short Stories from the United States and Latin America (W. W. Norton; $15.95; 336 pp.; paperback original) Edited by Robert Shapard, James Thomas, and Ray Gonzalez; Introduction by Luisa Valenzuela From the publisher: This collection was conceived by Robert Shapard and James Thomas, editors of the successful Flash and Sudden Fiction series. For this new anthology Shapa... Submitted: on 22nd Feb 2010 Tags: · The · Fiction · James · Paperback · Paperback Original · Publisher · Short Stories · The · The Publisher · ThomasDeadline for Orlando Prize is Sunday The deadline for the A Room of Her Own Foundation’s Spring 2010 Orlando Prize is Feb. 28. Four $1,000 Orlando Prizes for Creative Nonfiction, Short Fiction, Poetry, and Sudden Fiction will be awarded. The competition is open to women of all nationalities. All applications must be written in English and submitted online. Winners will be announced April 15. Read the guideli... Submitted: on 25th Feb 2010 Tags: · The · Deadline · Fiction · Foundation · Nonfiction · online · Orlando · Poetry · Short Fiction · WrittenReview: Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson by Louise Rennison genre: young adult Georgia Nicolson is 14. Well, practically 15. And along with everything else that goes with being practically 15, she's got a psychotic cat, completely out-of-it parents and a little sister who likes to hide her dirty nappies in Georgia's bed. Honestly. The diary-format of the book is brilliant and SO practically 15. Georgia and her pals are snarky and irreverent, boy-... Submitted: on 18th Jan 2010 Tags: · The · Cat · Confessions · Diary · Dirty · ReviewListen to our Author's Podcasts Running the Week of 3/15 >> Danielle Trussoni discusses her writing process and the inspiration for her first fiction novel, which imagines a war between humans and fallen angels since Biblical times. >> about Angelology: Podcast Author Interview Danielle Trussoni paranormal fiction angels Submitted: 2 days ago Tags: · The · Author · Author Interview · Fallen · Fallen Angels · Fiction · Fiction Novel · The · WritingLOWBOY Author: John WrayGenre: Fiction, StandalonePublished: 2009Personal Rating: 3/5 (just okay)Yearly Count: 15 From Publishers Weekly: Wray's captivating third novel drifts between psychological realities while exploring the narrative poetics of schizophrenia. The story centers on Will Heller, a 16-year-old New Yorker who has stopped taking his antipsychotic medication and wandered away from the menta... Submitted: on 22nd Feb 2010 Tags: · The · Author · Fiction · Novel · Poetics · Publishers · Publishers Weekly · StoryNight by Elie Wiesel This memoir is a horrifying portrait of the Holocaust, says Phil Mongredien Elie Wiesel was 15 when the Nazis came for the 15,000 Jews of his hometown of Sighet, Transylvania, in May 1944. Upon arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau, his mother and sister were murdered within hours, while he was put to work as a slave labourer. Eight months later, the Germans evacuated the camp and forced the survivors on ... Submitted: on 20th Dec 2009 Tags: · The · When · Elie Wiesel · Memoir · Mother · Slave · When2009 Reading Roundup & 2010 Reading Resolutions The Numbers I read 112 books in 2009. 95 of those books were fiction and 17 were non-fiction. The fiction included 93 novels and only 2 short story collections. The genre breakdown was as follows: 45 mysteries, 8 fantasy, and 42 literary or general fiction. As far as age-range goes, 43 would be classified as YA or children's literature, and 52 as adult fiction. The non-fiction titles covered ... Submitted: on 1st Jan 2010 Tags: · children · The · Fantasy · Fiction · Fiction Titles · Literary · Literature · Mysteries · Non-fiction · Novels · Reading · Short Story · TheSECRETS OF EDEN Author: Chris BohjalianGenre: Fiction, StandalonePublished: 2010Personal Rating: 3.5/5 (good)Yearly Count: Secrets of Eden is about domestic violence. The story is told through the eyes of the neighborhood preacher, an author who wrote a book about angels, the state attorney and the 15-year-old daughter who is a witness to some of the abuse. My main reason for reading this was because it was writt... Submitted: on 28th Feb 2010 Tags: · The · Author · Fiction · Reading · Secrets · Story · Witness · WroteReview - Red Planet Noir D.B. Grady In recent months, Speculative Fiction Junkie might as well have been called Strange Fiction Junkie since reviews of weird fiction have predominated here lately. This does not mean, though, that I've lost my fondness for works of science fiction and fantasy or that I don't occasionally yearn to read something besides weird fiction. I was glad, therefore, when a novel came my wa... Submitted: 1 day ago Tags: · Science · When · Fantasy · Fiction · Lost · Novel · Review · Science Fiction · Speculative Fiction · Works
