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James Whyle's Blog
November 14, 2009
- Truth is like matter itself. The closer you look, the more it disappears, until you are confronted with spinning particles, tiny speeding entities that are changed by the mere act of examination. Stories, losing their purchase in the present, change in the telling, and the best one can hope for is that they illuminate a little and that they entertain. That said, it is true that AWOL in ...
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August 13, 2009
- God put human beings on earth, Barney Simon used to say, because he likes to hear stories. I met Barney through Nicky Rebelo. During his time at university, Nicky had worked on a creative writing project. He had been in the thick of some weird shit with 32 Battalion during his army stint, and was, like most of us, dislocated by the experience. Perhaps as a result, he developed a fascination ...
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June 28, 2009
- "AVC: So you think that, despite your own initial reaction to it, McCarthy is successful in the way he uses violence in the book? HB: More than successful. It’s not only the ultimate Western, the book is the ultimate dark dramatization of violence. Again, I don’t see anyone surpassing it in that regard.""AVC: The violence in Blood Meridian is uncharacteristic. It’s not ...
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June 5, 2009
- Short Fuses, an unstable and volatile collection of short stories, including Bliss by Patricia J DeLois, is now available on Amazon.
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May 8, 2009
- Scarlet, yellow, green and goldFlaming in the evening cold,Sparked by fires of the sunFlinted from the atom's gun. How do these images igniteWithin a mystery, a light? Inside the whole, the nought can seeBlack holes in the approaching night.
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April 3, 2009
- National Madness was a success. It changed things. It was the time when “he”, a young man as full of jism and foolishness and politics as a ripe egg, began slowly to become “me”, an old fart in a thatched room, inscribing runes on an electric stone. Invoking the dead. Years after writing National Madness, stricken with flu, I spent four days in bed in the back room of a house at 15 The ...
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April 3, 2009
- Dan Holloway was once, in the same year, officially the most intelligent person in the world and the fourth best discus thrower in Oxford. The quest for “a storyline that makes sense” has, sadly, taken its toll on both of these.Sean Cunningham is a criminal vandal/sheisty supervillain, currently in hiding from the governments/policemens. He does not have a pet cat, but if he did it would wear ...
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March 30, 2009
- Short Fuses is a compendium of 20 incendiary confections created in the fractious online assembly known as the Bookshed: an unruly gathering of linguistic fugitives whose only common bond is a passion for writing, absinthe and monkeys. Most of the writers represented here are escapees from other peer-review websites, although at least one is on the run from constabularies not merely virtual. ...
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March 10, 2009
- Van der Spuit pulls the trigger. The cone of brass and steel spinning from the barrel, parting air, smashing through bark, wood, bark, air, hair, skin, bone, membrane. Into the softness. Twisting now, no longer a cone, but a changing, complex form, burrowing in Chris' dreaming head.“Now you know what it’s like.”Chris, arched back against the tree, jerking like an epileptic. Van der Spuit ...
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November 16, 2008
- The ANCE has allegedly ordered the SABC to reduce its coverage of President Kglema Motlanthe and to stop projecting him as being so presidential, to the disadvantage of the party's president, Jacob Zuma. City Press. Meanwhile the ACN continues it's ongoing revolutionary struggle to ensure democracy and justice for all South Africans. By bussing its supporters to COPE meetings so that they can ...
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August 22, 2008
- The Congress of South African Students, “asked our teachers and organised a train for us to come here. But we were not well informed about the reason why we are protesting," - Nomsa Mabona, pro-Zuma “protester” to a Times Reporter.This is yet another example of the fall of standards in the Rainbow Nation. In the old days, people were always told, simply and clearly, what they were ...
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August 20, 2008
- A fellow writer in the BookShed, BillJustBill, made the following comment the other day:“Never have I encountered so much good writing in the service of an absence of dramatic tension. I’m fed up. I want a main character who is in crisis, who cares so damn deeply that he/she can’t see straight.”Got me thinking.Recently, for the first time in a year or so, I read a book that kept me up at ...
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August 10, 2008
- Mozambique. It has a ring to it, that name. You enter from Mpumalanga, the Eastern Transvaal. Which is game farms and sugar cane and orchards, rich country, with touristy roadside stalls and game lodges, nestling between the escarpment and the Lebombo Mountains.At the border a man introduced himself. He looked at the third party insurance document as my wife was filling out forms. “Allied ...
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July 23, 2008
- "I wake to sleep and take my waking slow.I learn by going where I have to go."I’ve been thinking of answering Belle Yang’s question with a poet’s answer. And when I saw Alex Grants post of the above poem, I thought yes."Poetry is memorable speech."Wystan Hugh Auden.Who also said:"O plunge your hands in water,Plunge them in up to the wrist;Stare, stare in the ...
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July 2, 2008
- Patricia J DeLois, reclusive author of BUFFLEHEAD SISTERS, and founder member of writer's peer review site, The BookShed, has just signed a two-book deal with Berkley Books.Patricia will be working with editor, Jackie Cantor, whose list includes New York Times bestsellers Diana Gabaldon, John Lescroart, Eloisa James, and Hope Edelman, and Helen Fremont, author of the acclaimed memoir AFTER LONG ...
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