The launch night of There’s No Point in Not Being Friends with Someone If You Want to Be Friends With Them, Manchester’s newest live literature night is tonight! Head down to the new Trof at the Deaf Institute on Grosvenor Street (just off Oxford Road), to join in on the action. There is plenty going [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2008
Review: The Accidental by Ali Smith
July 21, 2008 – 2:51 pm
Review by Natalie Clark
Endlessly falling in love with literary heroines is a guilty pleasure of mine and Amber in Ali Smith’s fantastic novel The Accidental provides a sustaining allure throughout this engaging novel. From the eponymous heroine of Anna Karenina to John Fowles’ The French Lieutenant’s Woman, I have been provided with the perfect seductive [...]
Paul Simon, Reading Nights and Chris Killen
July 9, 2008 – 2:43 pm
Here at Transmission we get sent many things, some good, some bad, some utterly baffling. Not so long ago, we were sent an interesting little self-produced chapbook. It was titled Paul Simon, and judging from the handwritten numbering on the back, a very limited edition. It’s a haunting affair, where the eponymous singer-songwriter recovers from [...]
Transmission #11 Contents
July 4, 2008 – 2:27 pm
Here is a full list of contents for Transmission #11:
Interviews:
Graham Foster talks to Dan Vyleta
NP Murgatroyd chats to Empar Moliner
Articles:
Found in Translation: Sara Newman on the role of the literary translator, photography by Richard Heap
Writer’s Block: Chris Killen on hustling
Fiction:
Covering Tracks by Sean Gregson, illustrated by Richard Short
The Breakdown by Oliver de la Fosse, [...]