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Issue 12
Spring/Summer 09

 
 

Columns

Rebirth

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous
beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner
or in a restaurant’s revolving door.

– Albert Camus

 
 

Features

One Man & His Stage

Simon Callow talks to Henrietta Bredin about how he got closer to Dickens, Shakespeare and Wilde through the intense and complex medium of the one-man play

Unreal City

As part of Pen Pusher’s dedication to finding the best new writing voices, we will now be exclusively showcasing longer stories and chapters from talented, up-and-coming authors.

 
 

Fiction

 
 

Portfolio

 
 

Reviews

African Psycho

Alain Mabanckou
(translated by Christine Schwartz Hartley)
Serpent’s Tail, 2007

The Crust on its Uppers

Robin Cook
New Authors Limited, 1962

Clearout Sale

Mark Edwards
Andromache Books, 2008

The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath
William Heinemann, 1963

Clearout Sale

Mark Edwards
Andromache Books, 2008

 
 

Back Pages

 

Credits Issue 12

Editor: 
Anna Goodall

Contributing editor:
Felicity Cloake

Sub-editor: 
Helen Lewis

Design:
Hape Mueller

Emblem design:
Ricky Wilson

Website: 
Zephir Software AG
www.zephir.ch

Special thanks to:
Thomas Breuss
Claudio Frau
Nicholas Hodgson
Roland Schaub
Tim Wells

ISSN 1755-4888

Background Illustration: Michael Constantine