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Everything Makes Its Mark: the Stories of Shelagh Delaney

thresholds23 November 201610 November 2016

DAVID FRANKEL rediscovers the forgotten short stories of Shelagh Delaney: ‘the vitality of her stories comes from her extraordinary talent for dialogue. She captures the rhythm of rapid conversation between characters – the firing back and forth and its underlying humour…’

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Samuel Beckett’s Ping

thresholds15 September 201422 October 2014

K.S. DEARSLEY has a closer look at Samuel Beckett’s modernist short story ‘Ping’: ‘Prentice called ‘Echo’s Bones’ a ‘nightmare’ and when I first picked up ‘Ping’ I felt pretty much the same way. But the trick to appreciating this story is a simple one…’

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Everything Makes Its Mark: the Stories of Shelagh Delaney

Samuel Beckett’s Ping

Editor Interviews: Rebecca O’Connor, The Moth

Off the Page and Into Our Lives

Fifty Pounds by Weight in Ashes

By the Mouth and for the Ear

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Hanging on to Dear Life

Dazzled

What I Feel When I Talk About Short Stories

Alive and Dreaming Wide Awake

Food in Exile

Editor Interviews: Sean Preston, Open Pen

Venus and Mars on a Winter Break