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The online literary magazine with short stories and comics from all around the world

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fictionable, to blackfriday
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… we've checked and it's definitely #Friday

In fact, for those who celebrate, it's #BlackFriday

So let's do it again: tell us three #books you've enjoyed recently and we'll see if we can come up with something else you might like.

Who knows? You might even be able to find it in a #library

#BookRecommendations #reading #writing #bookstodon @bookstodon

fictionable, to 13thFloor
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What happens when shrinks to ? We must remember how to read with says Dina Nayeri.

Catch it at https://www.fictionable.world/blogs/dina-nayeri-fiction-memoir-biography-stories-triggering/

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‘Ariana jiggled the front door key, feeling something that might have been anticipation. “What if I only burn part of the place down?” ’

— Ariel Marken Jack, ‘The Bread Boy’

I thoroughly enjoyed that story in the Winter 2023 issue of FICTIONABLE; the Spring issue is out today and it looks good!

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fictionable,
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@InterzoneMag @inquisitrix … "Oh, you and I are going to get along just fine…"

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from everyone at https://fictionable.world

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fictionable, to climate
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On the @fictionable blog, Caroline Lucas argues that we must counter #climate denial with compelling and inspiring stories.

https://www.fictionable.world/blogs/caroline-lucas-climate-denial-is-being-weaponised-and-popularised

Image: Janusz Walczak

#books #reading #writing #translation #comics #ShortStories #podcast #fiction #ClimateCrisis

fictionable, to books
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Quinton McCandless is born in 1968 with a smile on his face. Grahame Williams examines a life where nothing goes to plan in Making It Happen.

Catch this exclusive short story at https://fictionable.world

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fictionable, to books
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Big Barrel is off to the dumpster to get some grub. Jakub Żulczyk draws a picture of decline in Many Years of Hardships, translated by John and Małgorzata Markoff.

Catch this exclusive short story at https://fictionable.world

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fictionable, to Podcast
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In the week Jenny Erpenbeck won the #InternationalBookerPrize catch her on the @fictionable #podcast recalling the fall of the Berlin Wall and discussing her prizewinning novel Kairos, translated by Michael Hofmann.

https://www.fictionable.world/podcasts/jenny-erpenbeck-podcast-sloughing-off-one-skin-go-went-gone-kairos-writing/

#books #fiction #ShortStories #translation #comics @bookstodon

fictionable, to books
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Annie’s been packed off to Christian camp, but will she convert? Lauren Caroline Smith shares the good news in The Placing of Hands.

Catch this exclusive short story at https://fictionable.world

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fictionable, to books
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Some kind of pig is snuffling in the leaf mould. But what is it up to? Rose Rahtz reads the signs in Where Hast Thou Been, Sister?

Catch this exclusive short story at https://fictionable.world

#books #reading #translation #comics #ShortStories #podcast @bookstodon

fictionable, to books
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Big Barrel is off to the dumpster to get some grub. Jakub Żulczyk draws a picture of decline in Many Years of Hardships, translated by John and Małgorzata Markoff.

Catch this exclusive short story at https://fictionable.world

Image: Richard Pennystan

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fictionable, to books
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Quinton McCandless is born in 1968 with a smile on his face. Grahame Williams examines a life where nothing goes to plan in Making It Happen.

Catch this exclusive short story at https://fictionable.world

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fictionable, to Podcast
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Faith, hope and literature. In the latest @fictionable #podcast Lauren Caroline Smith looks for God in her teenage years and finds belief on the bookshelf.

https://www.fictionable.world/podcasts/lauren-caroline-smith-christianity-christian-the-placing-of-hands/

Catch it at https://fictionable.world or via #ApplePodcasts #Spotify #Acast and more…

#books #fiction #ShortStories #translation #comics @bookstodon

fictionable, to Blog
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Head to the @fictionable where Caroline Lucas argues we must counter false narratives with more compelling and inspiring stories.

https://www.fictionable.world/blogs/caroline-lucas-climate-denial-is-being-weaponised-and-popularised

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fictionable, to Spotify
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Fair is foul, and foul is fair on the @fictionable podcast, as Rose Rahtz explores the awesome might of young children.

https://www.fictionable.world/podcasts/rose-rahtz-where-hast-thou-been-sister-shakespeare-macbeth

Catch it at https://fictionable.world or via and more…

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fictionable, to books
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Huge congratulations: Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Michael Hofmann, has won the International Booker prize.

#books #fiction #translation @bookstodon

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@bookstodon Catch Erpenbeck talking about her prizewinning novel on the @fictionable

https://www.fictionable.world/podcasts/jenny-erpenbeck-podcast-sloughing-off-one-skin-go-went-gone-kairos-writing

And read her short story Sloughing Off One Skin, also translated by Michael Hofmann, in our latest edition.

https://www.fictionable.world/stories/sloughing-off-one-skin-jenny-erpenbeck-translated-by-michael-hofmann

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fictionable, to books
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Annie’s been packed off to Christian camp, but will she convert? Lauren Caroline Smith shares the good news in The Placing of Hands.

Catch this exclusive short story at https://fictionable.world

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fictionable, to Podcast
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On the @fictionable #podcast we examine the Troubles with Grahame Williams, and explore the things we’ve left behind.

https://www.fictionable.world/podcasts/grahame-williams-troubles-northern-ireland-short-story-making-it-happen/

Catch it at https://fictionable.world or via #ApplePodcasts #Spotify #Acast and more…

#books #fiction #ShortStories #translation #comics @bookstodon

fictionable, to books
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Quinton McCandless is born in 1968 with a smile on his face. Grahame Williams examines a life where nothing goes to plan in Making It Happen.

Catch this exclusive short story at https://fictionable.world

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fictionable, to books
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'I was hoping for the poet and not the critic.'

Jenny Erpenbeck and Michael Hofmann talk to Mia Levitin about their International Booker prize-winning novel Kairos.

https://www.ft.com/content/5c8ff401-dc8c-4320-acd4-14360367a4bd

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fictionable, to books
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Big Barrel is off to the dumpster to get some grub. Jakub Żulczyk draws a picture of decline in Many Years of Hardships, translated by John and Małgorzata Markoff.

Catch this exclusive short story at https://fictionable.world

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fictionable, to shortstory
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Jenny Erpenbeck opens #Spring 2024 with Sloughing Off One Skin, a haunting #ShortStory that explores truth and identity, translated by Michael Hofmann.

https://www.fictionable.world/stories/sloughing-off-one-skin-jenny-erpenbeck-translated-by-michael-hofmann

#books #reading #writing #comics #fiction #translation #ShortStories @bookstodon

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@bookstodon Subscribe for £20 and get all this and a year's more exclusive and from all over the world, as well as access to an ever-expanding archive of stories from writers including Joyce Carol Oates, Ali Smith, Sarah Hall, Alain Mabanckou, Etgar Keret, Diana Evans, Lizzy Stewart and more…

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@bookstodon And on the @fictionable #podcast Jenny Erpenbeck talks about why writers are so suspicious of documents, the trouble with endings and the problem of arbitrary borders.

https://www.fictionable.world/podcasts/jenny-erpenbeck-podcast-sloughing-off-one-skin-go-went-gone-kairos-writing

She also talks about her International Booker Prize-shortlisted novel Kairos and recalls what it felt like in #Berlin when the Wall came down.

#books #reading #writing #comics #fiction

fictionable, to writing
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Can you make something true just by it down? Jenny Erpenbeck traces a paper trail in Sloughing Off One Skin, translated by Michael Hofmann.

Catch this exclusive short story and listen to Erpenbeck talk about borders, endings and the slippery business of at https://fictionable.world

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