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Andrew Blackman
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Book reviews, literary news and updates from Andrew Blackman, author of the novel On the Holloway Road (Legend Press, 2009).
- Added on: Mar 7th, 2009
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Author: Andrew Blackman
- Listed in: Fiction Books
- Tags: literature book reviews London literary fiction kerouac holloway road
Recent Posts
“The White Tiger” by Aravind Adiga
I didn’t like this book when I started it. Even when I was browsing it in the bookshop, I wasn’t that keen – I only bought it because it was half-price and it had won the Booker Prize. Surprising, then, that it ended up being one of...
Update
All is well, despite the silence. I’ve been putting all my energy into winning a short story contest. With a £25,000 prize and a star-studded judging panel, I’m expecting the competition to be fierce. To win, I think I’ll have to w...
Monday morning inspiration
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. - Maya Angelou...
Borges marathon, part 1: The Cruel Redeemer Lazarus Morell
Illustration of Lazarus Morell by the very talented Mora at http://artemora.blogspot.com So I had this great idea to write a separate review for every short story every written by the master of short stories (or short fictions as they’re often ...
“Collected Fictions” by Jorge Luis Borges
With this book, I have to admit defeat, or at least a change of plan. I wanted to review every book I read on this site, but I can’t review this. How to reduce the life work of one of the most brilliant writers of the 20th century to a single b...
“The Writer as Migrant” by Ha Jin
These are three essays on the notion of migration for the writer, mostly explained through other writers such as Nabokov, Conrad, Kundera and Naipaul. In the first essay, The Spokesman & the Tribe, Jin explores the balance between the individual ...
