Read in a Single Sitting

May 16

In praise of Creatavist

Creatavist is a digital publishing platform from the team that brought us long form non-fiction publisher/app The Atavist.

I managed to swing myself an invite to the Beta version, and last week I used the platform to publish a short story.

I’m not easily impressed (something to do with copious amounts of self-loathing) but I’ve been running round like a giddy schoolgirl all week telling everyone who will listen how great Creatavist is. Let me explain why.

The platform allows content creators - writers, photographers, filmmakers - to easily publish multimedia stories for apps, ebooks, and the web.

Their tagline is ‘Storytelling without limits’ and after playing with the software for five minutes it’s easy to see why. Firstly, It’s simple to use.

Secondly; the finished product looks pretty fucking spiffy.

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May 15

Hipsters, irony and The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus -

Hipsters, irony and The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus

May 07

On Sisyphus, Camus, knowledge and Chaim Potok’s In The Beginning

Of late it seems that I am being haunted by intertextuality. Each book that I pick up seems to…

Apr 24

Separating the author and the work: on Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita

Over the course of my last few reviews I’ve been considering the role of the author as narrator…

Apr 19

I'm on Podmentum, the podcast from Momentum Books -

On this week’s Podmentum we talk to Steph Campisi from review site Read in a Single Sitting about reviews and book blogging, and we get to hear the audio debut of Koraly Dimitriadis‘ new poem, Fuck Off. You can find out more about Love and Fuck Poems by Koraly Dimitriadis here.

Apr 18

Writers, writing and Dodie Smith’s I Capture the Castle

When reading PG Wodehouse’s Love Among the Chickens recently I was struck by the narrator’s…

Apr 16

Thoughts on Love Among the Chickens by PG Wodehouse

Love Among the Chickens is my first foray into the work of Wodehouse; and as a fairly early work,…

Apr 11

Chance, fate and Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Einmal ist keinmal.

What happens but once might as well not have happened at all…

The story that…

Apr 09

A Change for the Better: on reading habits

In Susan Hill’s A Change for the Better Deirdre Fount finds herself traversing a path that is not the one she intended to venture down. Though she might have stumbled upon it of her own accord, her marathon trek along it is due to a mix of personal…

Apr 05

Bookish links 5 Apr: rewriting from scratch, authors’ rights, writing the dark side & more!

RIASS stuff:

Book Review: A Change for the Better by Susan Hill [rating:4/5]

Guest Post: Balancing…