Reading AM/PM, the first collection of short stories from Austin’s Amelia Gray, one can’t help but be impressed: across a series of flash fiction pieces, Gray evokes wonder and dread; romanticism and despair. And slowly, as you make your way through AM/PM‘s stories, patterns begin to emerge as characters recur and situations evolve — a … Continue reading
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Me @ Volume 1- A Quick Technical Note for the Weekend
- Afternoon Bites: Stephen Fry, Geoff Dyer on criticism, the Month of Letters challenge, and more
- The Week In Reviews: Jay-Z at Carnegie Hall, the journalism of Charles Dickens, Edward St Aubyn’s prose, and more
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June 4, 2009, Author: , 1 Comment
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The Thursday Agitation: Amelia Gray
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March 9, 2009, Author: , Leave a comment
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notes, briefly, on ‘am/pm’
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I’ve just finished Amelia Gray‘s AM/PM. The spine lists it as “a book by Amelia Gray”, and that, rather than “stories by”, sounds about right: it’s composed of just over a hundred works of flash fiction, many of which share characters, and is structured in such a way to provide a fair amount of emotional … Continue reading