Darcey Steinke – author of novels Suicide Blonde, Jesus Saves and the spiritual memoir Easter Everywhere – talks about faith, Kurt Cobain, freedom, the '70s, her fifth novel, Sister Golden Hair, and more....

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In this episode of Litro Lab, Mia Funk speaks to poet, playwright and National Book Circle winner Claudia Rankine, about her creative process and the issue of racism in her innovative and award winning collection Citizen.

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This week, Toni Servillo - perhaps Europe's greatest actor - brings to the Barbican his production of Le voci di dentro (Inner Voices), a 1948 work by Neapolitan playwright Eduardo de Filippo. The piece takes place in a world suspended between dreams and reality...

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In the last of her articles on the relationship between music and poetry, Clémence Sebag looks at how the spoken word draws on musical influences.

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The Mädels With a Microphone investigate a German pop culture phenomenon, the TV cop show Tatort (meaning crime scene), which has been running on German TV for over 30 years.

Every Sunday evening at 8:15 pm, Germans love nothing better than to gather in their local bar to watch various fictional detectives solve fictional crimes in a different German, Swiss or Austrian city each week.

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A woman is sitting alone at the hotel bar with a glass of something orange in front of her. You wouldn’t know straight away that she’s a prostitute. She’s wearing glasses and her clothes look simple. The bar’s other customers do not bring sex to mind, necessarily. Middle aged couples, a few men having a drink. It’s one of these expensive, soulless hotels that cater to business people, not far from Marble Arch.

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Featuring stories from John Biggs, Simon Kearns, Stuart Snelson, Eli Goldstone, Simon Tonkin and Lauren Seidman.

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In the second of his monthly columns for Litro, short story writer and secondary school teacher Alan Gillespie discusses the difficult business of getting teenagers to sit down and do the business of writing, and ponders whether exposure to video games can make or break a story.

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December 2012

Letter from the Editor

Short Fiction

Listings

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Table of Contents

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