Giles Gordon

The title story had been turned down by The New Yorker (which in fact accepted only two of the eleven stories in this volume) and by British periodicals.The Fly-Paper from this volume was...

The Fifth of November was chosen by Giles Gordon for Modern Short Stories 2 1940-1980, 1982.

Sarah from this volume (dated 1943) was reprinted in Modern Short Stories 2, 1940-1980, 1982, edited by Giles Gordon .

NG began writing short stories while working on her first novel; she published two hundred of them. She began their international publication in the New Yorker and the Yale Review, and spread...

AQ published a handful of short stories and articles in various journals, including Nova, the London Magazine, transatlantic review, and Antigonish Review. In the mid-sixties she told her publisher,...

The publication of her first book added to the list of her epistolary friends: Giles Gordon , her editor at Gollancz, Tom Carvlin of the Chicago Tribune, and London journalist Paddy Kitchen (and...

Her friendships with Giles Gordon and Paddy Kitchen each crashed in flames for reasons connected with BH 's writing (publishing negotiations or opinions expressed), but each was joyfully restored in 1980-1. She had...

The adjectives chosen for these twelve stories by Giles Gordon in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography are luminous, incisive. At the time of publication they were praised in the Times and the Times...

Reviews were mixed. The Times called the book catty as well as too clever . . . by half, while the New York Times Book Review called it awkward and inflated while also accusing it...

LP was so moved that she wept as she wrote this play. She later perceived an autobiographical element in it. Reviewers were on the whole less impressed than they had previously been by Page...

Berg earned AQ two major awards: the Harkness Fellowship, given to the most promising Commonwealth artist under thirty years, and the D. H. Lawrence Fellowship from the University of New Mexico .Giles Gordon

Weldon wrote a fighting speech for the awards ceremony, protesting .about publishers' treatment of authors. She claimed later to have shown it ahead of time to the organisers, but I suppose they hadn't bothered to...

From the beginning BH sounded defensive about this work, fearing it might be hard to place. Sure enough, both Giles Gordon and Hilary Rubinstein , her agent at the time, felt it was...

Success as a novelist did not put a stop to BH 's shorter and more topical writings. Soon after finishing Maru she was writing for the New African about singer Miriam Makeba 's music and...

The book finished, the process of publication unexpectedly spun out into a nightmare. Trouble began when BH requested 94 free copies for her to give, as she had promised, to the people she interviewed. Reg Davis-Poynter