The Best British Short Stories 2011 (Anthologies and Gift Books) by Nicholas Royle

Author:Nicholas Royle
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, mobi
Publisher: Salt Publishing
Published: 2011-06-16T04:30:00+00:00

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1 ‘All stories are love stories.’ So begins Robert McLiam Wilson’s 1996 novel, Eureka Street. It is a spare and haunting beginning but if you tweak it a bit, if you strip the line down further, to its barest essentials — subject-verb-object — you will find a formulation that might be etched on a primary-school wall: stories love stories.

Around the time Wilson’s novel was being published, another novelist and short-story writer, Neil Davidson, was recovering in hospital after a nervous breakdown brought on by difficulties he experienced in completing his third novel, The Hallucination (see below). Alex Johns, of the Observer, was interviewing him for an article on the consequences of creativity. The interview took place on a Saturday morning in August 1996. I was in the room.

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