Back with a Bing-Bong, after 2 rounds of COVID, nightmares and odd, odd times!
https://theoddmagazine.wixsite.com/oddity-24
The Odd Magazine is honoured
to present:
Odd Art: Cecilia Martinez, and Cynthia Yatchman
Odd
Interview: Armando
Fragale in conversation with Gary Cummiskey
Odd Shorts: Cheryl Snell, Doug Jacquier, Doug Mathewson, Fran
Turner, and Michael F Cocchiarale
Cover Photography:
Soham Gupta
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If you have nothing to do today, and just happen to be in
Stockholm, pop round to Lil'Lit Förlag's table at the Bokbordet Stockholm!
Pravasan Pillay will be there from 14:00 to sign copies of the Swedish
translation of his short short collection Chatsworth. Lil'Lit is an indie
publisher and like all indie publishers they need support!
And if you can't make it to Stockholm today, or you can't
read Swedish, well copies of the original English version of Chatsworth are
still available for sale from madeindurban.co.za.
A finalist for the 2014 Nadine Gordimer Short Story Award, Off-ramp is the debut short fiction collection of Gary Cummiskey and consists of ten stories often characterised by a surreal eroticism. Set mainly in contemporary South Africa, the book opens with a young man’s hallucinatory encounter with a derelict in a Johannesburg street; there is a couple’s visit to a sinister Free State farm; an editor who reluctantly agrees to meet an aspiring woman writer at midnight; two young men who go out on a drinking spree as the country teeters on the edge of civil war; a restless teenager who stalks an unknown woman; and a middle-aged academic who engages in an obsessive, sadistic relationship with a prostitute.
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Pravasan Pillay's Chatsworth gets a nice wee mention in Arja Salafranca's Media24 review of Terry-Ann Adams's debut short story collection White Chalk.
(Note: There is a paywall for the review.)
Gary Cummiskey being interviewed by Shafinaaz Hassim, on BookBytes, Salamedia, on Sunday 24 July, 2022. A wonderful, warm conversation about poetry, short fiction and publishing in South Africa. We chatted a bit about Outside the cave in particular and I read one poem from the collection. Chatsworth and The Edge of Things were also discussed, as single collections and anthologies published by Dye Hard Press.
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It’s Yeoville in the mid-1990s. Enter Fig, a copywriter with a penchant for living on the edge – staying up all night, having casual sex and snorting cocaine. Drifting from seedy clubs to grotty flats, Fig continues his aimless odyssey … until the day he falls asleep in a client presentation and is fired.
