You rescue an elderly man from being kidnapped by thugs. He tells you that if he is eventually tracked down, he'll send you a cassette. Listen to its instructions and make your own decision. It could bring you things you never even dreamed of. The ca...
This is no conventional novel. Set in the pre-computer age of publishing, of typewriters, galley proofs and printer's ink, it is based on the author's own experiences. It is also a kaleidoscope of portraits, scenes and situations, images and ideas, u...
In his novel Writer's Cramp, and Pot Shots, his first collection of short stories, Alan Blackwood already displayed a great gift for brevity and economy of words. In Snap Shots , he has honed this gift to perfection. These are not short stories as su...
This new collection of pieces by Alan Blackwood can hardly be called short stories; they are gem-like concentrations or distillations of a series of images erotic, sad, darkly humorous, that Alan calls ‘vignettes.’ They will have the reader turni...