When I look back on my choice of fiction I have always been turned off from literature that did not leave me a little hot under the collar. However, the sex involved in the books I read tends to be a slow burn of surmounting tension that climaxes just before anyone has to use … Continue reading »
Judging only from the current state of journalism, it would seem that blogs and the Internet have introduced a new challenge to the longstanding, steadfast tradition of objective journalism – where the writer is not an individual, but merely a catalyst through which the story flows, unmarred, from pure fact to written word. It … Continue reading »
Ugly Duckling Presse, like every good independent publishers, have their own creation myth. Starting out in 1993 as a cut-and-paste ‘zine the press has since grown into a fully oiled up cultural printing machine. They delve into the fringes of the written word to find the most innovative and interesting poetry, works in translation, essays … Continue reading »
