For days now you have been driving across unbroken grassland, which you know you’ll never be able to leave behind forever, no matter how fast you might go, or …
FROM DEEPEST DEATH TO FULLEST LIFE: an interview with Patrick West
LAURIE STEED You are noted as saying it’s essential a short story ‘spend time in the foreign territories of the writer before it is midwifed onto the page’. How would …
The Breathtaking and the Bewildering: Patrick West's The World Swimmers
Review by Robert Goodman Short stories are their own particular art form. Like poetry, they are often the expression of an idea or a mood or a character. A distillation …