Slightly jetlagged from its journey all the way from Lahore, Pakistan to Liverpool, England, but otherwise in excellent shape: Usman T. Malik’s limited edition and illustrated collection Midnight Doorways. Looking forward very much to getting into this, and do remind me to nominate the lovely cover for a BSFA ‘Best Artwork’ Award at the end of the year. Have a sample: the short story ‘The Wandering City’ at the Arizona State University website.
Month: April 2021
ICYMI: Links round-up, April 2021
- Hillary Kelly butts up against Haruki Murakami’s latest collection First Person Singular, reviewed in the Los Angeles Times. (1 April) … Rob Doyle at The Guardian is a little kinder, but not by much. (12 April)
- A 1-hour podcast from Kuzhali Manickavel on writing English in India, plus a short story she discusses, ‘Item Girls’, at Granta Online. (2 April)
- Aamer Hussain on Usman T. Malik: The Fabulist of Lahore at Dawn. (4 April)
- Singaporean spec-fic authors Suffian Hakim and Jocelyn Suarez discuss telling dark stories at Singapore Time Out. (5 April)
- Emad El-Din Aysha interviews Malaysian writer Chuah Gaut Eng about her only science fiction story ‘Memoirs of an Aranaean Harpist’ at Eksentrika.com. (22 April)
- Lee Mandelo at Tor.com reviews Terminal Boredom, the first of two collections from the iconic Japanese writer Izumi Suzuki. (22 April)
- Asian SEA Story on Facebook has an overview of 10 ghosts and ghouls from across Southeast Asia. (25 April)