Karen Smythe
@karensmythe.bsky.social
Writer. Author of novels This Side of Sad (Goose Lane, 2017) and A Town with No Noise (forthcoming from Palimpsest Press, 2025).
Read a few pieces from this forthcoming collection, and the review by Ian Colford, too! "Keith Hazzard writes like a man on fire."
Preorder available now.
www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/excerpts-f...
Preorder available now.
www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/excerpts-f...
Excerpts from BRIEF LIVES: Fictions by Keith Hazzard
[forthcoming from Exile Editions, December 2024]
www.theseaboardreview.ca
November 16, 2024 at 11:39 PM
Read a few pieces from this forthcoming collection, and the review by Ian Colford, too! "Keith Hazzard writes like a man on fire."
Preorder available now.
www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/excerpts-f...
Preorder available now.
www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/excerpts-f...
Reposted by Karen Smythe
This has been added to our Literary News list, but you should give this a follow asap!! @themockler.bsky.social does an incredible job connecting readers with authors, news, memes and all sorts of literary goodies!
November 15, 2024 at 11:04 PM
This has been added to our Literary News list, but you should give this a follow asap!! @themockler.bsky.social does an incredible job connecting readers with authors, news, memes and all sorts of literary goodies!
"But the studiolo — the diminutive of studio in Italian, a precursor to the modern-day study — came to offer readers access to a different kind of chamber, a personal hideaway in which to converse with the dead." The studiolo: a great word for my writing shed!
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“Here I Gather All the Friends”: Machiavelli and the Emergence of the Private Study
Reading is a form of necromancy, a way to summon and commune once again with the dead, but in what ersatz temple should such a ritual take place? Andrew Hui tracks the rise of the private study by rev...
publicdomainreview.org
November 16, 2024 at 12:28 AM
"But the studiolo — the diminutive of studio in Italian, a precursor to the modern-day study — came to offer readers access to a different kind of chamber, a personal hideaway in which to converse with the dead." The studiolo: a great word for my writing shed!
publicdomainreview.org/essay/machia...
publicdomainreview.org/essay/machia...
Very sad to hear that Frank Auerbach has passed. One If my favourite painters. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
Frank Auerbach, Painter Who Redefined Portraiture, Dies at 93
Frank Auerbach, a British painter who redefined portraiture, has died at 93.
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November 16, 2024 at 12:12 AM
Very sad to hear that Frank Auerbach has passed. One If my favourite painters. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
My husband's latest, Brief Lives (very short fiction), is available for pre-order! Out Dec 31st.
November 16, 2024 at 12:09 AM
My husband's latest, Brief Lives (very short fiction), is available for pre-order! Out Dec 31st.