Declan Fry



‘I’m a judgey, grudging reader’: Michael Winkler in conversation with Declan Fry

Audio Transcript Declan Fry [intro]: Meet Michael Winkler: novelist, essayist, critic and all-round legend. He greeted me at his house wearing a tomato tin print T-shirt, the kind of tomato tins you might find at Basfoods or Brunswick’s Mediterranean wholesalers. …

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Rawdogging the system: Declan Fry reviews Ender Başkan’s Two Hundred Million Musketeers

Ender risks the rawdog. To capture things in mid-flight. It keeps him hungry. Keeps you honest.

What draws Ender to this? Ask Sophia, his partner. She’s 80% rawdog. As in, will “PERFORM ANY ACT RECKLESSLY / OR WITHOUT PREPARATION.” As in: “A MEASURE OF RISK TAKING” (‘Hot Water’, 39).

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Declan Fry Reviews Cham Zhi Yi

The reader will have to imagine for themselves what Maria-Àngels Roque, editor-in-chief of Quaderns de la Mediterrània, a twice-yearly journal focused on authors from the Euro-Mediterranean, must have felt upon hearing these words.

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