Damian Kelleher - Literary reviews, short story reviews, essays, fiction

The latest addition to the website is my review of French author Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud's short story, Unlivable.

You can read the review here.

Unlivable by Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud is a short story from Small Beer Press' Châteaureynaud collection, A Life on Paper, translated by Edward Gauvin

Other stories from Small Beer Press' Châteaureynaud collection, A Life on Paper include:
---January 1973 - April 1974 (Paris): The Peacocks
---February 1983 (Bures): A City of Museums
---May 1986 (Lozère): Come Out, Come Out
---March 1989 (Lozère): A Life on Paper
---February 1991 (Lozère): Icarus Saved From the Skies

Other stories translated by Edward Gauvin under review include:
---Adamek, André-Marcel - The Ark
---Quiriny, Bernard - A Guide to Famous Stabbings

The latest addition to the website is my review of Australian author Christina Stead's short story, Street Idyll.

You can read the review here.

Street Idyll by Christina Stead is a short story from from The Penguin Best Australian Stories, edited by Mary Lord.

Other titles from The Penguin Best Australian Stories include:
---1859: Lang, John George - The Ghost Upon the Rail
---1866: Fortune, Mary - The Dead Witness; or, the Bush Waterhole
---1873: Clarke, Marcus - Pretty Dick

The latest addition to the website is my review of French author Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud's short story, A City of Museums.

You can read the review here.

Come Out, Come Out by Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud is a short story from Small Beer Press' Châteaureynaud collection, A Life on Paper, translated by Edward Gauvin

Other stories from Small Beer Press' Châteaureynaud collection, A Life on Paper include:
---January 1973 - April 1074 (Paris): The Peacocks
---May 1986 (Lozère): Come Out, Come Out
---March 1989 (Lozère): A Life on Paper
---February 1991 (Lozère): Icarus Saved From the Skies

Other stories translated by Edward Gauvin under review include:
---Adamek, André-Marcel - The Ark
---Quiriny, Bernard - A Guide to Famous Stabbings

The latest addition to the website is my review of Romanian author Stelian Tanase's short story, Zgaiba.

You can read the review here.

Zgaiba by Stelian Tanase is a short story from Bucharest Tales from the New Europe Writers series

Other stories from Bucharest Tales from the New Europe Writers series include:
---Bican, Florin - Penguins
---Lungu, Dan - Mr. Escu's Adventure
---Ormsby, Mike - Democracy
---Ruşti, Doina - Bill Clinton's Hand

The reviews for this book were made possible thanks to a kind gift from my friend Bogdan Suceavă.

The latest addition to the website is my review of French author Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud's short story, The Peacocks.

You can read the review here.

The Peacocks by Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud is a short story from Small Beer Press' Châteaureynaud collection, A Life on Paper, translated by Edward Gauvin

Other stories from Small Beer Press' Châteaureynaud collection, A Life on Paper include:
---May 1986 (Lozère): Come Out, Come Out
---March 1989 (Lozère): A Life on Paper
---February 1991 (Lozère): Icarus Saved From the Skies

Other stories translated by Edward Gauvin under review include:
---Adamek, André-Marcel - The Ark
---Quiriny, Bernard - A Guide to Famous Stabbings

The latest addition to the website is my review of Montenegrin author Andrej Nikolaidis' short story, So Much Time For So Few Things.

You can read the review here.

So Much Time For So Few Things is a short story from Transcript Issue 40 - Summer Shorts.

The latest addition to the website is my review of Guatemalan author Eduardo Halfon's short story, Good Women and Bad Women.

You can read the review here.

Good Women and Bad Women is a short story from the Words Without Borders April 2012 issue, Sex.

Other titles from the April 2012 issue include:
---Iwasaki, Fernando - To Troy, Helen

The latest addition to the website is my review of French author Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud's short story, Icarus Saved From the Skies.

You can read the review here.

Icarus Saved From the Skies by Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud is a short story from Small Beer Press' Châteaureynaud collection, A Life on Paper, translated by Edward Gauvin

Other stories from Small Beer Press' Châteaureynaud collection, A Life on Paper include:
---May 1986 (Lozère): Come Out, Come Out
---March 1989 (Lozère): A Life on Paper

Other stories translated by Edward Gauvin under review include:
---Adamek, André-Marcel - The Ark
---Quiriny, Bernard - A Guide to Famous Stabbings

The latest addition to the website is my review of Kazakhstan author Ilya Odegov's short story, Old Fazyl's Advice.

Old Fazyl's Advice is a kind of inverted folk tale, a story where the advice given is utilised in exactly the opposite way it "should" be in order to achieve a goal very much against the wishes of poor Fazyl. The story is enough to make me curious about reading more of Odegov's stories in English, but it isn't, sadly, overly memorable.

You can read the review here.

Old Fazyl's Advice is a short story from the Words Without Borders September 2012 issue, Writing From the Silk Road.

The latest addition to the website is my review of Mauritian author Barlen Pyamootoo's short story, Center of Flacq.

Center of Flacq portrays itself as a standard, rather average "foreign writer" kind of story, aimed at middle-class, white, English-speaking readers. This facade cracks rather quickly, and then shatters in the final sentence. And it's all rather wonderful, really.

You can read the review here.

Center of Flacq is a short story from the Words Without Borders May 2012 issue, Writing From the Indian Ocean.