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Darren Richard Carlaw

Darren is a British writer, editor and researcher. He studied and taught at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, where he completed a PhD thesis examining the New York literary flâneur. His work has been published in the Times Literary Supplement, The Journal of American Studies, The New York Journal of Books, Conserveries mémorielles, Spilling Ink Review and Fractured West. He is the founder of StepAway Magazine, an online literary magazine which publishes urban flash fiction and poetry with an emphasis on the walking narrative. (www.stepawaymagazine.com) Dr. Carlaw is currently writing a monograph about walking in New York City.

Hostage

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It has been only two years since Nobel Peace Prize winner and noted holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel published a novel. His previous offering, The Sonderberg Case, also translated from French to English by Catherine Temerson, was weighed down by philosophy, asking more questions that it could ever answer. Wiesel has […]

Open City

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Can an author truly dislike his or her narrator? When writing American Psycho, a novel which, incidentally, turns twenty one years old this March, did Bret Easton Ellis grow to despise Patrick Bateman not only for his brutality, but for his banal obsession with pointless detail? Or rather, did he […]