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Trial

A young family is torn apart by the military junta in Argentina.

Dangerfield Describes a Sky

Once Dangerfield was on top of the world, but that was almost twenty years ago now. He didn’t even work at it back then; it just flowed out of him like water from a tap.

Much Bothered With Buffalo

By Claire Thurlow

Unearthing the pioneer women of the emigrant trails.

Excavating a Painful Past: Author Q&A with Wendy C. Ortiz

By Andrea Calabretta

Fourteen years later, Wendy C. Ortiz sifts the relics of an illicit relationship between teacher and student in her memoir Excavation.

It’s Bedlam: Sense and Sensibility & The Seagull

By Ann Daniels

The Bedlam Theatre Company's lively and innovative adaptations breathe new energy into Austen and Chekov classics.

The Three Horsemen: Martin Amis, Ian McEwan and Sir Salman Rushdie at 92Y, New York

By Luke Maxted

Martin Amis, Ian McEwan and Salman Rushdie were figureheads of late twentieth-century literary London - the last great era of British fiction. So what happened when the three of them got together in 2013 on the Upper East Side of Manhattan? Luke Maxted went to find out.

The Hollywood

By Luiza Sauma

Last year, a new shopping centre opened on the outskirts of London. There's something for everyone: expensive shit, cheap shit, mid-priced shit, all laid out in a sort of class system—the shitty shops and shitty restaurants in the east wing, the classy ones in the west, and the OK ones in between. You’ll find The Hollywood, a 1950s-style American diner, right in the middle. “Thousands of new jobs!” cried the centre’s press release. I took one of them at The Hollywood.

For the Love of Leftovers

By Shannon Evans

This blog series has been about my discovery of UK culture, but this particular article is inspired by a recent trip home to the States – a trip that showed me I have lived in London long enough to view aspects of American culture, once normal and unobserved, in an entirely new light.

How could you waste any of this?

It happened at a restaurant.

Are You Posh?

By Shannon Evans

Stand-up comedian John Bishop

Accents fascinate me. I’m guilty of half-listening to people, half trying to figure out their accent. If we watch John Bishop’s stand-up routines, my husband has to translate, since I understand maybe only every other word.

While I was in England for a gap year programme, I became aware of how accents are linked to the class system.

Birthday Americana

By Erika Swyler

One. I'm in a yellow highchair, the same color as the sculpted carpet. In front of me is a cake, frosted to look like flower petals. I don't yet understand flowers or cakes. I work a blob of frosting into my mouth. Pictures of me show the kind of passion reserved for adults. Ovidian, Keatsian love.

Remex and Rectrix

By Andrew Colarusso

‘That’s what girls with powerful fathers do.’ A slave for ever dilutes with dignity the fiction of love. The truth of this is spectacular. That even the mechanism of nature carries in its chaos an evanescent integrity. As I have been rent from these senses; none preserved, the right to have at chaos. We fester. We, when realized, will ways to destroy. And there, think nothing of order’s lamentations. Someone unheard is waiting to name love, again.

A Backwards Story of a Backwards Man

By Litro

The night A.W. thought he won the megabucks he flicked on a small lamp in the corner of the room and rushed a Yuengling from the fridge. After a clack, fizz and slurp, after a warm flood through the gut that settled the tremble in his arms somehow, he turned on the TV: numbered ping-pong balls shot through a tubular cage like popcorn, as though popcorn could be what was, after all these years, summoning his fate – he chuckled.

Litro #117: America

By Litro

Cover photograph by Litro Editor-in-Chief Eric Akoto

Litro #117: America—Editors’ Letter

By Alex Goodwin and Mohsen Shah

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America, that slippery beast. One nation, one constitution, one currency: a framework for arguably the most diverse, remarkable and undefinable country in the world. But short stories are something of an American specialty; in 1962 Frank O’Connor described them as America’s national art form, and the roll call—from Cheever, Carver, and Yates to Yiyun Li, ZZ Packer, and Jhumpa Lahiri—is as much an illustration of the changing American imagination as anything else.

The Night Ridge

By Simone Felice

I love you. These simple words knock against the inside of his head the same way police knock. Hard. Loveless. I love you. He sits in a backward chair by the window and watches the wide cold river run, trying like hell to remember what it means. The winter sun’s fallen low across the water over Jersey, and soon the sad pastels will bloom behind her skyline. Dusk on these cities, colors of evening, I love you, misplaced colors come to seal, like a fierce rosy paste in the sky, one more day’s end in the life of this thin misplaced soul we’ve found, this stranger at the window.

A Trip to America

By Tony Concannon

‘Excuse me. Does this train go to Ames?’ Taeko Endo asked a woman reading a newspaper in one of the seats near the door. ‘Yes, it does,’ the woman answered, smiling. Taeko thanked her and took the seat across the aisle. She put down her bag of presents and the flowers she’d bought inside the station and relaxed. She was on her way to visit Edward Hunt. He’d been her English teacher at the junior college in Tokyo and she’d been secretly in love with him ever since. Two years earlier, the year she’d graduated, he’d returned to Massachusetts; now she was there to get her bachelor’s degree and to see if she could make him fall in love with her.

Amboy: A Walk in the Ruins

By 999Bagpuss

Amboy is a place in the Mojave desert, about 200 miles east of Los Angeles. I hesitate to call it a town: undoubtedly that’s what it used to be, and maybe once a town is always a town, but right now, and for the twenty years or so that I’ve been visiting, its population wouldn’t qualify it as a village, not even as a hamlet. There are SUVs driving down the freeway with larger populations than Amboy, and the freeway is precisely the reason for Amboy’s demise.

Jim Morrison

By Fred Voss

On mornings like this as I drive toward work at 6:21 am 4th Street stretches ahead without end as I stick my arm out my window and roll back my sunroof as the sky begins to lighten my long-dead father waves to me from a barber chair as the red white and blue pole spins

Carter Jackson — Rat Hunting

By Litro

I grew up duck hunting. Which I never really liked because you had to wake up at some obscene hour, wade through a freezing swamp and sit in a dark cold blind that reeked of stale farts and was covered in tobacco spit. Pheasant hunting was much more my speed. You went at a decent hour, like in the afternoon; you were out walking around, and the birds were big, and you could chatter as much as you like. Either way, duck hunting or pheasant hunting, I can’t say I was a very good shot. Rat hunting, on the other hand, I was great at.

Rob McClure Smith – Every Pitcher Tells A Story

By Litro

It took the combined efforts of Rich and MacPherson’s maid to pour the little man into his clothing. They shuffled him out the door braced between them. The windows were smothered in the thorn bright fire of bougainvillea. There were pepper and bottlebrush trees, a too-high cypress hedge, a fish pool with lotuses around which fat Japanese carp slivered a sloshing yellow.

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December 13, 2015

Litro #148: The Going Home issue – Letter from the Editor

By Eric Akoto

This month in Litro #148 we explore the notion of what Going Home – means to us. Is it a familiar physical space? A refuge? A feeling? A state of mind? Or is home actually to be found in another human being – maybe your partner, your parents? How do you know when you have found it? Continue reading »

November 26, 2015

Litro #147: The Space issue – Letter from the Editor

By Eric Akoto

Welcome to Litro #147 - the Space issue. In this issue we explore the world’s ever-evolving urban social landscape. We’ve got art, stories, essays, cartoons, interviews - all examining the ways in which individuals and groups carve out their own spaces, dare to take up space and make their built environment(s) distinctly their own. Continue reading »

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Trial

Dangerfield Describes a Sky

Much Bothered With Buffalo

Excavating a Painful Past: Author Q&A with Wendy C. Ortiz

It’s Bedlam: Sense and Sensibility & The Seagull

The Three Horsemen: Martin Amis, Ian McEwan and Sir Salman Rushdie at 92Y, New York

The Hollywood

For the Love of Leftovers

Are You Posh?

Birthday Americana

Remex and Rectrix

A Backwards Story of a Backwards Man

Litro #117: America

Litro #117: America—Editors’ Letter

The Night Ridge

A Trip to America

Amboy: A Walk in the Ruins

Jim Morrison

Carter Jackson — Rat Hunting

Rob McClure Smith – Every Pitcher Tells A Story

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