writing style – SEVEN CIRCUMSTANCES

by Marthe Bijman February 3, 2021

Dear BBC, what is there to know about Sjón?

Here is the sad tale of a quite discombobulated radio interview. In the post before this one I discussed theContinue Reading

by Marthe Bijman May 21, 2018

Author interview Backstories Discussion of writing style

Into the mind of an author: Ruuf Wangersen (author of The Pleasure Model Repairman)

Ruuf Wangersen’s debut novel is The Pleasure Model Repairman, reviewed here. I was fascinated by this new author and theContinue Reading

by Marthe Bijman February 16, 2018

Backstories Discussion of writing style Literary analysis

1 The Creative Process – Mad, bad and dangerous to know

In Charles Bukowski’s famous novel, Hollywood, one of his many famous cult classics, his alter-ego “Henry Chinaski” describes actors asContinue Reading

by Marthe Bijman September 4, 2017

Current events Discussion of current events Discussion of genre Discussion of writing style Review of new book Review of science fiction Reviews of short stories

Reality from a different perspective – Giants at the End of the World, Finnish Weird anthology

At the 75th World Science Fiction Conference (Worldcon 75) held in August 2017 in Helsinki, Finland, the bag of goodiesContinue Reading

by Marthe Bijman June 29, 2017

Backstories Discussion of writing style Review of new science fiction Review of science fiction

Depicted like a painting – The One-Eyed Man by L.E. Modesitt, Jr.

You know the colour “octarine”? It’s the colour of magic, visible only to magicians and cats, a sparkly, glowing combinationContinue Reading

by Marthe Bijman September 15, 2016

Current events Discussion of author’s portfolio Discussion of writing style Review of historical fiction Review of new book Review of new novel Review of previously published novel

Prepare to have your head messed with, brilliantly – Icelandic writer, Sjón

Sjón: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Reader of Sjón. Her current mission: to explore strange new worlds,Continue Reading

by Marthe Bijman March 2, 2014

Review of new book Review of new novel Review of novel

Umbrella, by Will Self – Writing as avant-garde Jazz

(Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012) You have to be determined to finish Umbrella. It’s 379 pages of text with no line breaks.Continue Reading