Following the International Alternative Press Festival earlier this month, the publishing collective has just released the second effort from French cartoonist David Ziggy Greene. Where’s North from Here? comprises ...
Today marks 150 years since the birth of the master of the ghost story, Montague Rhodes James. In the century since they were first published, James’s stories have never been ...
Leave the slip road, nudge out into the slow lane between a Norbert Dentressangle lorry and a Volvo estate towing a caravan with mint-green go-faster stripes. Wherever that slip road ...
Amboy is a place in the Mojave desert, about 200 miles east of Los Angeles. I hesitate to call it a town: undoubtedly that’s what it used to be, and ...
A London-based publisher recently asked me, “How would you compare US and UK book cover designs?” I had no intelligent answer for him—I’d never taken the time to study the ...
A retrospective of Alain de Botton’s The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work and Status Anxiety as a tie-in to Litro #115: Work.
Like all of you, I love books. My dream is to become a very important publisher in Italy one day, perhaps to start a company that will ...
I have to admit, I had been thinking of buying an e-Reader for a couple of months, but I just couldn’t make a decision. There were at least ten different ...
Why aren’t more short stories about happiness? Writers are a grim bunch, by and large. If there’s a slough of misery they can send their characters into, chances are they ...
These dogs are brave, loyal and loving, but it’s interesting that often, these qualities are meant to say more about their owners than it does about the animals themselves. Own ...
Feeling bitter and twisted about the whole chocolate-coated, rose-tinted, heart-shaped Valentine’s behemoth? Fuel your antipathy with a good gloat over five of the top romance fails in literature.
1. Mr Collins ...
There’s an art to ending a short story. A good finish leaves you feeling it was there all along, its signature running through everything like the words in a stick ...
Last Wednesday, some of the UK’s finest writers took to the stage to tell cautionary tales of adolescent adventure-tourism, the tragedy exchange-year students gambling away their allowances in alien European ...
There’s something odd in how we think about authors. We believe that what they create is so incredibly personal, and yet there’s not necessarily anything about their finished product – ...
I do prefer the days when I could go to a comic store once or twice a month and find a new issue of Peepshow, Underwater, Eightball, or Optic Nerve: ...
In this day and age, when we’re being constantly brainwashed by poppy tunes emanating from every possible audio device, it’s easy to forget that song writing is an art form, ...
This July is the wettest in the UK since the early 90s. With the rain beating against my window I could listen to ...
Here are some imaginative people who have combined two of life’s great pleasures: books and food. This list will leave your stomach growling…
Design Criminals Edible Catalogue, designed by Andreas Pohancenik
This ...
There has been numerous intriguing items belonging to writers and fascinating books that have been put up for auction; from a rare, watercolour miniature of Jane Austen’s lost love Tom ...
Many writers have now had their birthdays marked with a decorative Google Doodle: from Jules Verne’s interactive, underwater themed doodle to J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan becoming acquainted ...
