Podcast appearances and mentions of helen mcclory

Romanzi horror e gotici: i miei consigli di lettura. - “Lolly Willowes, o l'amoroso cacciatore” di Sylvia Townsend Warner: se cerchi un romanzo che parli di mistero, soprannaturale, streghe e femminismo, allora questo libro potrebbe fare per te. - “Una storia di fantasmi” di Helen McClory: è la storia di tre vite tra loro intrecciate, tenute insieme da un'instabile legame di ossessioni e illusioni, narrata in un'atmosfera sospesa e attorniata da eventi inspiegabili e misteriosi. - "Il castello di ghiaccio" di Tarjei Vesaas: favola nera del 1963, frutto della penna del plurinominato al Nobel Tarjei Vesaas, è la storia di una ragazza, Unn, outsider di una piccola comunità rurale che vive in uno stato di isolamento sia abitativo che scolare, avvolta da una sorta di aura misteriosa. - “La meridiana” di Shirley Jackson: le vicende di una bizzarra famiglia si sviluppano all'interno di una villa monumentale, e ognuno di questi personaggi concorre alla creazione di uno stravagante carosello da manicomio, dove oltre alla pazzia un altro punto li accomuna: credere a un'imminente crisi apocalittica alla quale solo loro sopravviveranno come autentici eletti. Puoi acquistare i libri che ho consigliato direttamente da questa lista, che contiene gli 80 libri più belli che ho letto negli ultimi anni: https://www.amazon.it/shop/zonalettura Puoi anche supportare questo podcast con un caffè virtuale su Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/zonalettura Se apprezzi il podcast, lasciami una recensione o qualche stellina! Scrivimi per commenti, idee e proposte: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zonalettura/ E-mail: woozingstar@gmail.com Foto di Gabriele Taormina Musica: Acoustic Blues e Saloon Rag, di Jason Shaw, da https://audionautix.com Rendezvous, di Shane Ivers, da https://www.silvermansound.com

Approfondimento e recensione di 3 libri: - “Fotogrammi di un film horror perduto” di Helen McClory: una serie di brillanti racconti horror e weird, che raccontano la quotidianità in maniera sinistra e oscura, attraverso un velo dark che offusca e rimodella la comune percezione della realtà. - “La possessione di Mr Cave” di Matt Haig: Terence Cave ha perso tutti, non gli è rimasta nessuno se non sua figlia Byrony. In preda a una terribile paura di perdere anche lei, Terence si lascia prendere dal panico e inizia a esercitare un controllo ossessivo nei suoi confronti, ma si catapulterà in baratro la cui uscita sarà molto difficoltosa. - “L'ospite perfetto” di Herbert Lieberman: due pensionati, Albert e Alice Graves, abitano serenamente in una villetta di campagna. Un giorno il giovane Richard Atlee si presenta a casa loro per la manutenzione della caldaia, finchè di soppiatto non si insinuerà di nascosto nei sotterranei della casa, adibendo la cantina a sua personale dimora... Se apprezzi il podcast, lasciami una recensione o qualche stellina! Puoi anche supportarmi offrendomi un caffè virtuale su Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/zonalettura Scrivimi per commenti, idee e proposte: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zonalettura/ E-mail: woozingstar@gmail.com Foto di Gabriele Taormina Musica: Acoustic Blues e Saloon Rag, di Jason Shaw, da https://audionautix.com Rendezvous, di Shane Ivers, da https://www.silvermansound.com

I first came across Camilla Grudova's work at the Edinburgh Book Festival, when I attended a joint reading between her and Helen McClory (whose A Voice Spoke To Me At Night I have also read for this series). I was instantly captivated by her claustrophobically intimate tales of a vague Mitteleuropa that seemed to summon up both Kafka and Beckett, by way of Orwell's steamed-cabbage tenements, with a very unique voice. More info here - https://pietersender.wordpress.com/2020/05/10/readings-rhinoceros-camilla-grudova/ More info - https://pietersender.wordpress.com/2020/05/10/readings-rhinoceros-camilla-grudova/ The Doll's Alphabet is available her - https://fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/the-dolls-alphabet

Helen McClory's Mayhem & Death is one of my favourite books from the past few years. You can read my more in-depth thoughts in the review I wrote for Sublime Horror but the way McClory takes a selection of short works and flash fiction, all ostensibly unlinked, and build something quite remarkable from them is mesmerising. A Voice Spoke To Me At Night is a longer example of the pieces of flash fiction that sit between the short story Souterrain and the novella-length Powdered Milk. More info here - https://pietersender.wordpress.com/2020/04/10/readings-a-voice-spoke-to-me-at-night-helen-mcclory/

The Lottery is a taut, short work about how even (perhaps especially) people who consider themselves normal can quite easily perpetrate atrocities if they consider those atrocities to also be normal. It shows how tradition and repetition - unthinkingly doing the things we have always done - are ways to distance ourselves from responsibility and accountability, from blame. The story's bleak, abrupt finale reminded me very strongly of a phrase in Helen McClory's Bound to Be: "community means all ignoring the same cruelty". More info here - https://pietersender.wordpress.com/2020/04/06/readings-the-lottery-shirley-jackson/

Lee Hutchison is joined this week by award winning Scottish writer, Helen McClory (@HelenMcClory), as we look at her work to date, Flesh of the Peach, The Goldblum Variations, On The Edges of Vision and her latest collection, Mayhem and Death. Helen shares the early inspirations and experiences that started her on a path to becoming a published author. Helen explains her unique creative process for writing material and how her travels helped influenced her writing. Helen and Lee discuss the evolution of reviews and how social media is replacing traditional press. Keep Up To Date With Helen McClory, see her live and find her work to buy in the links below...https://schietree.wordpress.com/fiction/www.404ink.com/books-authors/https://www.coastword.co.uk/coastword-2018/the-flint-and-pitch-revue-at-coastwordhttp://www.aberdeenperformingarts.com/events/may-festival-sophie-collins-helen-mcclory 

For the latest podcast Ali met up with writer Helen McClory at Edinburgh's Fruitmarket Gallery to talk about her life as a writer to date - and a very interesting story it proves to be. From studying creative writing in Sydney and Glasgow, to winning awards for her debut short story collection 'On The Edges Of Vision', walking Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson's dog, the difficult publication of her novel 'Flesh Of The Peach', writing about Jeff Goldblum, to her latest collection of short fiction 'Mayhem & Death', it is fascinating tale, and one which will be of interest to anyone who loves writing and reading.

WELLS OF LONELINESS Indian poet, novelist, activist and author of The Gypsy Goddess Meena Kandasamy has won many plaudits for her writing. She's here today with When I Hit You, a provocative examination of an abusive marriage. Joining her is Saltire First Book Award-winner Helen McClory, whose Flesh of the Peach describes an artist’s American road trip after her mother’s death. Explore the wilder shores of love and loss with these two rising stars of fiction. Chaired by Lee Randall.

In this episode, Rob has his annual Manchester Literature Festival chat with Kate Feld and then interviews novelist and flash fiction guru and advocate, Helen McClory about chibbing, things to spend money on, San Francisco, the perils of independent publishing and her latest novel Flesh of the Peach. Trigger warning: There is quite a lot of talk about British sport in both interviews. Kate Feld begins at 4:00 Helen McClory begins at 43:53

Indian poet, novelist, activist and author of The Gypsy Goddess Meena Kandasamy has won many plaudits for her writing. In this event, recorded live at the 2017 Edinburgh International Book Festival, she discusses When I Hit You, a provocative examination of an abusive marriage. Joining her is Saltire First Book Award-winner Helen McClory, whose Flesh of the Peach describes an artist’s American road trip after her mother’s death. Explore the wilder shores of love and loss with these two rising stars of fiction. Chaired by Lee Randall.

Amy Baker and Rosy Edwards chat to Helen McClory, author of 'Flesh of the Peach' about her career, writing tips, about 'finding your genre', and about the inspirational and exciting things that can occur on research trips. Visit us at the-riffraff.com.

This month I'm joined by novelist Helen McClory. Helen's novel, Flesh of the Peach, is available now from Freight Books. She is also the author of On The Edges of Vision, a collection of short stories. HELEN'S BOOK CHOICES: The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington The Diving Pool by Yoko Ogawa Hera Lindsay Bird by Hera Lindsay Bird Helen tweets @HelenMcClory and you can find out more about her on her website. She also curates a wonderful TinyLetter with essays on under-hyped books. If you're enjoying the show, please consider leaving us a review on iTunes. It makes a world of difference. If you love Podcasts, but wish there was an easier way to discover new shows you'll love, consider signing up for PodChaser with the beta code 'Papertrail'. If you do, we'd love a rating and review from you as well!

We welcome special guest Helen McClory this week, who traveled all the way from Scottland to make us discuss the new novel by Rachel B. Glaser, Paulina & Fran, about an art-school social circle revolving around a woman perhaps most charitably described as "difficult." McClory tells us why she loves problem characters, and books that explore relationships between women. She also talks about her school days in Scottland, her obsession with monsters--and with weird American food--and we ask her questions about her recent American tour in support of her book, On the Edges of Vision, from Queen's Ferry Press. As always, you can find more, including links to things we talked about on the show, at our website, bookfightpod.com.