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Bookreview – All on zero

By |April 10th, 2016|Books|

  ALL ON ZERO – ARGIRO MANTOGLOU More often than not, a casino story will tell the tale of a man, gambling everything he has and risking it all before becoming the hero at the end of the book. With “All On Zero” this is not the case at all- mainly due to the fact [...]

A walk to the places that inspired Dylan Thomas

By |March 6th, 2016|Journalism|

  The death of a young poet at the pinnacle of his publicity (especially at an age where poets were as popular as rock stars) created a collective trauma which inspired his fans to revive his memory by organizing memorials in order to honor him, celebrations, keeping the places he lived and wrote intact, a [...]

Review (abstract): White Revenge from newspaper “Kathimerini”

By |February 20th, 2016|Χωρίς κατηγορία|

By Titika Dimitroulia While the average Greek detective stories are constantly multiplying in the Greek book market, novels which deal with the Greek crisis in order to make easy sales and they have nothing to do whatsoever with the small in numbers but quality detective literature, many fiction writers are using the form of the [...]

The writer’s lab 

By |February 20th, 2016|The Writing Factory|

The first thing that comes to mind when I think of my “lab” is a big warehouse where everything is “thrown around”, texts, books, objects and other paraphernalia. They all have etiquettes and a temporary identity: childhood, guilt, pleasure, love, sadness, old age, summer, hesitation, separation. There also are parts of dialogues, old pictures, strange [...]

The use of visual arts in creative writing – Seize the story

By |February 20th, 2016|The Writing Factory|

The well known saying “one picture is worth a thousand words” might be right as far as the power of the image is capable of exposing a common experience to full view or bring back to memory critical historical moments, but in terms of writing, the same saying could easily be reversed;  one could claim [...]

Extract from the interview in Athens Voice, February 2013 

By |February 20th, 2016|Χωρίς κατηγορία|

by Dimitris Karathanos    Q: Τhe story of White Revenge starts on December 2008 in Athens which is choked by tear gas  – Unavoidably we  make some conclusions that lead to the theme of crisis in Greece. Do you think that your book, in spite of all the other themes, is shedding some light to [...]

Extract from All on Zero

By |February 20th, 2016|Χωρίς κατηγορία|

Chapter 1 [ADVENTURE OF ZERO] If you are afraid of the wolf, don't go into the forest, says an old Russian proverb. Dawn repeated this saying many times during the day, feeling as if it gave meaning to her every movement. She whispered it as she deleted yet another phone message from her ex; said [...]

Extract from “Virginia Woolf Café”

By |February 20th, 2016|Χωρίς κατηγορία|

Chapter One   The Phone call   Brixton, March 1996, 2:00 a.m. Night doesn't scare me. It never did. I like to walk back home. To walk till I have exhausted all the roads one by one. I like to hear my footsteps on the pavement; to count the lighted windows; to pass the unlit [...]

Short stories (both in Greek and English) that were written during our stay at eaglespalace last May, “Sense and Insensibility” is the title of my own story.

By |December 22nd, 2015|The Writing Factory|

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