Dear Gentle Reader,
Please accept this forewarning of the approaching submission deadline for Transmission #12. On the 30th June 2008 this institution will close its mailbox for correspondence on this matter. However, on this date a new theme and deadline will be announced, so it may be wise to keep your quills moistened and your parchment [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2008
Submissions Deadline Approaching
June 24, 2008 – 11:28 am
Review: Morvern Callar by Alan Warner
June 17, 2008 – 6:34 pm
Review by Linda Aloysius
In Morvern Callar, Alan Warner effectively updates the critique of femininity’s relation to commerce that Gustave Flaubert provided in Madame Bovary. This is a far from obvious update, but undeniable once seen.
Both heroines have potentially doomed, but differing, relationships with consumerism. Emma Bovary eventually dies through suicide induced by the [...]
Dan Vyleta on his Influences
June 11, 2008 – 11:16 am
In our latest issue, The Europe Special, we spoke to German writer Dan Vyleta about his debut novel Pavel & I. The interview is a fascinating insight into why the author chose to write in English, and he is very talkative about his literary influences. So talkative, in fact, that we couldn’t fit all of [...]
Roaring News!
June 9, 2008 – 9:54 pm
To mark the anniversary of both D-Day (1944) and the day we interviewed Micheal Chabon (2007), we took a publicity trip down to London last Friday. Readers in London will be glad to know you can now buy the new issue of Transmission from:
Blackwell, Charing Cross Road, WC2
Foyles, South Bank Centre, SE1
The London Review [...]
Review: Captains of the Sands by Jorge Amado
June 9, 2008 – 9:51 am
Review by Oliver Redfern
The first edition of Captains of the Sands, published in 1937, was seized by the Brazilian government and burnt in public. Jorge Amado’s novel, depicting the story of street children in Brazil who rape, steal and kill (much like their future counterparts in Paulo Lins’ 1997 novel City of God) was an [...]