Shaggy

Fourteen Rather Amusing Rambles
by Anton Krueger and Pravasan Pillay

Published by BK Publishing

“But listen to me rambling on! I’m sure you must be dying to rush home to feed your cat.”

Fourteen monologues by creeps, losers and an idiot.

Prepare yourself for a cast of some of the most manipulative, ingratiating, disillusioned, egotistical, inauthentic, spiteful narcissists operating in contemporary SA. Within these pages you will encounter fourteen first-hand shaggy stories told by a rogues gallery of scheming misanthropes whose speeches are full of sound and fury, signifying very little. These hilarious blowhards will make you snigger, cringe and wish your cousin had rather given you Spud 5 for your birthday.

EAN: 9780620504584
Price: R135

To order a copy,  please write to: andrea@alookaway.co.za

Janet van Eeden of LitNet reviews The Edge of Things, and chats to Arja Salafranca and other contributors about their stories

The Edge of Things is an eclectic collection of short stories traversing a vast distance emotionally and intellectually.

For example, Arja Salafranca’s moving story about a woman forced to live in a restrictive apparatus in “Iron Lung” is a million miles away stylistically from Aryan Kaganof’s tale of decadence and debauchery on a night out in Durban in “Same Difference.”

As with all anthologies, some stories will resonate with each reader more than others...Read more here

Jeanne Hromnik's review of The Edge of Things

There are 24 pieces here, some of which qualify as short stories, others more like prose poems and descriptions of emotional experiences. Relationships are central, aloneness integral and fictional reality

flexible.

The collection displays a variety of writing styles. It includes pieces by some of South Africa’s well-known writers, but also some gems from lesser knowns, including Beatrice Lamwaka’s prize-worthy Trophy and Dan Wylie’s tour-de-force, Solitude.

Interesting reading for those who are curious about the advance of short fiction in the local publishing market and, for all, comfort food for the soul. Jeanne Hromnik

(Published in Cape Times, June 10, 2011)

Houses of Joy

Invite to the Johannesburg launch of The Edge of Things

Invite to the Johannesburg launch of The Edge of Things

Dye Hard Press and Love Books

invite you to the launch of

The Edge of Things

South African short fiction selected by Arja Salafranca

Award-winning author Arja Salafranca will be in conversation with contributors Jayne Bauling, Gail Dendy, Bernard Levinson, David wa Maahlamela, Hans Pienaar, Gillian Schutte, Fred de Vries and Hamilton Wende about their stories and about the genre, which is clearly enjoying a resurgence in South Africa.

When: Thursday June 30th, 5.30pm for 6pm

Where: Love Books, The Bamboo Centre, 53 Rustenburg Road, Melville, Johannesburg

GPS Co-ordinates: 26º 10’ 27,64” S, 28º 0’ 49, 66” E

RSVP: info@lovebooks.co.za or 011 726 7408

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Sinclair Beiles in Beat Scene

Beat Scene No 64, features articles about Diane de Prima, William Everson, Jay Landesman, Anne Waldman, Janine Pommy Vega, Gary Snyder, William Burroughs, a slightly shortened version of the eponymous chapter of Who Was Sinclair Beiles? by Gary Cummiskey, and more. Visit Beat Scene for details.

Talking with Ginsberg: an interview by Jim Burns

Number 30 in the Beat Scene Press Pocket Book Series, chapbooks by or about Beat figures such as Philip Lamantia, Wallace Berman, Lew Welch, Jack Kerouac and Charles Plymell. Visit Beat Scene to order.

Carnival

Sky Dreaming on Peony Moon

I am searching for André Gide and have been told he is staying with Sinclair Beiles, so I go to Sinclair’s house in Raleigh Street, Yeoville. It’s been years since I have been out this way, but even so, after I knock on the door, Sinclair answers quite friendly and says, ‘Gide doesn’t live here anymore. I think he’s staying at a flophouse – he went loony, you know’...Read more here

Incwadi - Autumn 2011 issue

The latest issue of online poetry journal Incwadi features work by poets such as Gail Dendy, Ingrid Andersen, Arja Salafranca, Kelwyn Sole, Fiona Zerbst, Gary Cummiskey, Kerry Hammerton, Sarah Frost, Michelle McGrane, Anton Krueger, Crystal Warren and Tania van Schalkwyk.

Kobus Moolman: defending the value of poetry

Kobus Moolman has published several collections of poetry, including Time Like Stone, Feet of the Sky, 5 Poetry (with others), Separating the Seas, and most recently, Light and After (Deep South). He has also published two volumes of drama: Blind Voices and Full Circle. He has been awarded the Ingrid Jonker prize for poetry, the PANSA award and the DALRO poetry prize. He lives in Pietermaritzburg and teaches creative writing at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

You can read the Dye Hard Interview here

Independent publishers: how do they survive? Janet van Eeden interviews Deep South's Robert Berold

Janet: Robert, can you tell us a bit about your publishing house? What did you set out to achieve when you started publishing and how long have you been going?

Robert I started Deep South with Paul Wessels in 1995. At the time I was editing New Coin. Seitlhamo Motsapi, whose brilliant poems had been appearing in New Coin, told me he couldn’t find any publisher to take on his work. I was so outraged that I went to Paul and said we have to go into publishing. Our next book, Ari Sitas’s Slave Trades, was published a whole five years later. So in a way we only started in 2000. From 2003 I ran Deep South on my own...Read more here

Invite to the launch of Shaggy: 14 rather amusing rambles by Anton Krueger and Pravasan Pillay

Brion's discourse on Morocco