Karen Smythe

Excerpts from BRIEF LIVES: Fictions by Keith Hazzard [forthcoming from Exile Editions, December 2024]

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...

Today's haul:

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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...

"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...

Frank Auerbach, Painter Who Redefined Portraiture, Dies at 93 Frank Auerbach, a British painter who redefined portraiture, has died at 93.

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.

Any room for me?

Wow! Great cover, too!