There we go - twelve short stories chosen by yours truly, part of the A Personal Anthology project. Perfect way to start of a long weekend...
And off it goes, Susan Maxwell’s Personal Anthology, first divesting itself of worldly goods, naked in the bright air, its shoes ruined, kicking its way to the bottom of the pool and slipping off its swim trucks, with no map, but only a route, from which it had departed quite hopelessly…
What constitutes a short story? Edgar Allan Poe famously said a short story was one that could be read at a single sitting, but that addresses only the length, and maybe has less to say about what con...
@jonathangibbs.bsky.social 's A Personal Anthology project is an excellent one, and a very valuable way to be introduced to new writers or new stories. And I am not just saying it because this week's anthology is mine...
There's still time to sign up for today's Personal Anthology, which comes from @bibliorefuses.bsky.social Susan Maxwell, picking and introducing a dozen favourite short stories. Hitting inboxes at 2pm. Get it here: apersonalanthology.substack.com/about
A weekly guest-editor picks and introduces a personal anthology of twelve favourite short stories. Click to read A Personal Anthology, by Jonathan Gibbs, a Substack publication with thousands of subsc...
If youse aren't already reading A Personal Anthology (which you should, it's excellent), let me badger you into starting with mine!🦡🦡
It's Wednesday evening, so nearly the weekend... and A Personal Anthology. This week's guest editor, picking and introducing a dozen favourite short stories, is Susan Maxwell, @bibliorefuses.bsky.social. And hey this week's edition is the 250th edition! apersonalanthology.substack.com/about
A weekly guest-editor picks and introduces a personal anthology of twelve favourite short stories. Click to read A Personal Anthology, by Jonathan Gibbs, a Substack publication with thousands of subsc...
😁 An anniversary edition, too!😁
What better way (since it's too wet for Wicker Men) to celebrate? Biggest literary influences: Flann O'Brien, Virginia Woolf, Italo Calvino, Franz Kafka.
It's Friday! And there is news from afar thanks to @nasavoyager-mirror.bsky.socialbibref.blogspot.com/2024/04/five...
1.Things Restored Voyager 1 is back to its old self after having a funny turn 15 billion miles away. Three cheers for Voyager 1’s flight tea...
Another book of the apparently endless to-be-read pile: Clarice Lispector's 'Hour of the Star', read and reviewed. Review: The Hour of the Star | Bibliothèque des Refusés (bibref.blogspot.com)
It's a Bank Holiday weekend here (it's even sunny this afternoon!😎), so here's Five for Friday! Five For Friday #25 | Bibliothèque des Refusés (bibref.blogspot.com)
And this is what it looks like this evening: while rain is hammering down outside, inside it's all sloe gin and look-what-I-wrote!