LONDON, Mon, 29 Nov—I’d been eagerly anticipating the Phillip Pullman-Neil Gaiman event on Monday evening, only to see, when I arrived at the Cambridge Theatre’s entrance, an A4 piece of ...
The emergence of the world’s biggest book publisher was announced today. Sadly, it won’t be called “House of the Random Penguin”, as our Arts Editor Becky Ayre suggested, but ...
LONDON—Irish author Martina Devlin‘s story “Singing Dumb”, about a young girl from a rural community whose three-year-old brother is involved in a car accident, won the 2012 V.S. Pritchett ...
Lena Dunham’s first book deal; a reading by Man Booker prize shortlisted authors; Mo Yan the first Chinese citizen to win the Nobel prize for literature; the new Women’s Prize ...
Navigate a mirror maze by scent; literary adaptations galore at the 56th London Film Festival; Moby Dick as science fiction; Daniel Radcliffe to star in adaptation of Joe Hill’s 2010 ...
Jeffrey Eugenides weighs in on the gender imbalance debate; the 2012 Man Booker prize chair of judges and bloggers on whether blogging is destroying literary criticism; the Shakespeare’s Globe stage ...
J. K. Rowling’s new, long-awaited first book for adults, The Casual Vacancy, has finally been set free into the world today after a watertight security lockdown enforced upon it by ...
Forthcoming projects from the birthday boy, Stephen King; the Moby Dick Big Read project; Juke Box Story, a new London live storytelling night inspired by music; Salman Rushdie’s new memoir ...
To celebrate our upcoming China issue, we are holding a similarly-themed flash fiction competition with Sheffield University’s Confucius Institute and School of East Asian Studies.
The theme is “China”. Deadline: 3 October. ...
The 2012 BBC International Short Story Award shortlist; the Literary Death Match on TV; Audible.com’s celebrity-performed audiobooks; the state of book reviews; the new prohibition on “love padlocks” in Rome; ...
Zadie Smith, Michael Chabon, Salman Rushdie, J. K. Rowling, Sebastian Faulks, Terry Pratchett… there’s plenty to look forward to this month.
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Review the changes Litro has undergone in recent months and find out what the Litro team is up to.
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A Clockwork Orange celebrates its 50th anniversary; actress Emma Thompson sends Peter Rabbit to Scotland; Silvia Hartmann lets you watch her write her novel live; Amherst college finds a new ...
The second International Alternative Press festival, a celebration of creative exchange and self-publishing, came to an emphatic close last weekend. The fortnight had kicked off with eleven exhibitions dotted around ...
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As the guest editor of Litro’s second Brazil-themed issue, with a special focus on writing from and about Rio, where I now live, I was ...
Manoj Pandey
Brevity is difficult. It’s hard enough having to “cull” our stories to make them tighter, what about doing it in only 140 characters?
Well, Manoj Pandey can. And he invited ...
Short story writers Helen Simpson and Michele Roberts were at the London Review of Books last Thursday to talk about “Women Writing Women”. Before contemplating the depictions ...
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The Stoke Newington Literary Festival, which has been running since 2010, is distinguished from other literary festivals by its eclectic programme. It carries the expectations ...
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Summer’s here and we’ve organised a scavenger hunt for Litro readers around East London. But it’s not just all sun and games, you also stand ...
In Italy we are surrounded by translations. Books, magazines, movies – everything is translated or subbed, and we love our share of foreign art. I can only speak from my ...