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"Salvatore Difalco's fiction is a finely blended mix of toughness, street-smart insights and violence, along with flashes of tenderness and compassion. (His stories) are thoughtful, enigmatic ... drawing the reader in with sharp detail, poetic phrasing and recognizable characters. Though we're dealing with thugs, prostitutes and crackheads, they are all folks you'll feel uncomfortably at home with. That's Difalco's magic: scrape characters from the bottom of society's bowl and reveal them in literary daylight as powerless dreamers, failed mothers, caged creatures." Matthew Firth, 'Front & Centre'
27 stories told by gay uncles ... and featuring the talents of RubinA, Alex Reece Abbott, Sara Abend-Sims, Henry Bladon, Steve Bogdaniec, Steve Carr, Helen Chambers, Carl Chapman, Chuka Susan Chesney, Carolyn Cordon, Ruth Z. Deming, EG Downs, Tom Fegan, Nod Ghosh, Jan Haag, Chris Hall, Alisdair Hodgson, Eddy Knight, Lance Manion, Colleen Moyne, Edward O'Dwyer, DeLeon Peacock, Matt Potter, Melisa Quigley, Michèle Saint-Yves, E. M. Stormo and Susan Whitmore
"A spectacularly understated page-turner. Each story enters a world apart, often spoken with a poetic dry wit, sometimes acerbic to the point of controversial, honest to the point of brutal. Some people and situations are so funny you'll wish you'd been there. Many times you wonder how some have survived - some don't. From Ceduna, Madura, Mundrabilla, Kimba, and Yalata near the dog fence, Lewis has met, worked, and lived with the creme-de-la-creme of drifters and transients, as well as the fourth and fifth generational outback station owners. In the great Australian outback - among the dry red soil, the mulga and saltbushes, where the kestrels observe and keep their secrets - beware who you're talking to." Helen Travers, author of 'A Little Lower Than Angels'
15 short stories by Eddy Knight, based in and around Port Adelaide, South Australia. "Eddy Knight's semi-autobiographical stories are plugged with a hidden charge, always about to set off a chain of curiosities or minor tragedies which form the universal abyss of ordinary life. Throughout there is a formation of subjectivity, a stillness of observation working as a "speaking wound" which is suffered through quiet sensitivity and authenticity of experience. This is a great mapping of Port Adelaide and its surroundings, of its estuarine effluvia, both human and environmental, redeemed by the plucky melancholia of its characters transcending their histories through memory and empathy. 'A Short Walk to the Sea' is an impressive dissent against ignorance of the human condition." Brian Castro (Recipient of the 2014 Patrick White Award for his contribution to Australian Literature)
70 writers get wrathful! Poems, essays & stories by AR Abbott, S Abend-Sims, E Ahern, M Allen, J Allison, S Aveningo-Sanders, E Barnard, P Beckman, J Bell, R Beveridge, R Blum, H Brown, E Buttimer, S Cameron-McKee, S Carr, G Castillo Oriard, M Christmas, J Chronister, R Cooperman, Mark Crimmins, T Daly, S DiFalco, J Eli, M Estabrook, W Falo, G Garfunkel, F Gaugg, N Ghosh, G Gjomakaj, K Gosse, R Gould, A Grenfell, S Guthrie, J Hocking, M Horsfall, M Hudson, M Kelly, J Khan, R. Lavalette, L Lefkowitz, C Leslie-Bole, P Lingard, P Mackarness, G Maclean, K Mahony, J Maurer, KL Merrifield, C Mesler, P Michal, M Mittman, C Moyne, P Nieuwland, E O'Dwyer, E O'Sullivan, C 'P' Palmer, B Pitts, M Quigley, C Rammelkamp, L Rhodes-Ryabchich, RS Rosenthal, E Ruzicka, J Santosuosso, G Sarnat, PD Shea, C Stagg, L Tyrrell, A Walowitz, M Webb, J Weisman & G Yatchisin
""In a terrifically impressive collection of short short-fictions, Steve Evans takes us on a tour of the metaphorical sinkholes of suburbia. Via his observant eye and febrile imagination, we behold the mischievous and manic, the tawdry and tragic, and more. We come upon familiar scenes that then glow in a broadband delivery of hyper-realism. Second-hand books become a successful stalking strategy. A private letter-burning becomes a communal cleansing. In a final afternoon tea, a potential inheritance is consumed in gold-leaf-infused cakes. A deposit-secured wedding cake, a promised book of window paintings, a normal Bay-City tram ... never arrive."" Moya Costello, author of 'The Office as a Boat: a chronicle'
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO license. The book uses an economic lens to identify the main features of climate-smart agriculture (CSA), its likely impact, and the challenges associated with its implementation. Drawing upon theory and concepts from agricultural development, institutional, and resource economics, this book expands and formalizes the conceptual foundations of CSA. Focusing on the adaptation/resilience dimension of CSA, the text embraces a mixture of conceptual analyses, including theory, empirical and policy analysis, and case studies, to look at adaptation and resilience through three possible avenues: ex-ante reduction of vulnerability, increasing adapt...
""Alan Walowitz's poetry can provoke out-loud laughter and pensive melancholy; better still, he can even do both in the same poem. He has a particular talent for reconstructing recollections, quietly showing us what is moving about them and why, as in this volume's splendid title poem."" Robert Wexelblatt, author of 'The Posthumous Papers of Sidney Fein' ""What I love about Alan Walowitz's poems, is the very relatable way in which he captures so many of life's important moments with astute observation, wry humor, and empathy. He has a distinctive voice which infiltrates my synapses and resonates with my heart."" Betsy Mars, author of 'Alinea' ""Alan Walowitz is neither withholding nor unnecessarily oblique. And then there's the welcome wit, as he juggles the sometimes Jewish-blues in deft narratives that never cease to surprise. In his refusal to claim wisdom, he is wise. And oh, so rare to turn a breath into a gasp."" Estha Weiner, author of 'at the last minute'
Edward Ahern/Alan C Baird/Elaine Barnard/Paul Beckman/Jon Bennett/Howard Brown/Michael H Brownstein/Mark Budman/Steven Carr/Guilie Castillo Oriard/Changming Yuan/Jan Chronister/Marcia Conover/Carolyn Cordon/Judah Eli Cricelli/Ruth Z Deming/Andrea Diede/Salvatore DiFalco/Michael Estabrook/Tom Fegan/Nod Ghosh/Ken Gosse/Roberta Gould/Steven Gowin/Noah Grabeel/Anne Graue/Jake Greenblot/Andrew Grenfell/Shane Guthrie/Jan Haag/Mark Hudson/Louise Hofmeister/Sharron Hough/Abha Iyengar/Bryan Jansing/Jemshed Khan/Linda Kohler/John Kujawski/John Lambremont Sr/Ron Lavalette/Valerie Lawson/Tracy Lee-Newman/Larry Lefkowitz/Cynthia Leslie-Bole/Peter Lingard/JP Lundstrom/Chuck Madansky/Karla L Merrifield/Marsha Mittman/Leah Mueller/Piet Nieuwland/Carl Papa Palmer/Melisa Quigley/Dorothy Rice/Joanne Rizzo/Ruth S Rosenthal/Sarah Salway/Shawn A Sanders/Rikki Santer/Wayne Scheer/Iris N Schwartz/Fraser Sutherland/Lucy Tyrrell/Marian Urquilla/Rob Walker/Townsend Walker/Rob Walton/Michael Webb/Jeffrey Weisman
"Black Rabbit & Other Stories" is a debut collection of great intensity and versatility. The stories range from the fantastic to the gritty, from urban dystopias to worlds of dreamlike possibility. Even in their frequent explorations of brutality, the author remains honest and true to the motivations of his characters and the machinations of the worlds in which they find themselves. These are sure-footed narratives that move with a pre-destined deliberation into a universe that is often fraught with desperation and apparent hopelessness; but, ultimately, we find ourselves on a path to redemption, an acceptance of what is, in the final analysis, an incomprehensible matrix. Existential and reflective, brutal and honest, these are stories that will leave you questioning the essence of existence, your own humanity, and the humanity of those around you. This is deft storytelling from a talented new voice.