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Nicole Flattery

Nicole Flattery's criticism has appeared in the GuardianThe Irish Times and the LRB. Her story collection Show Them A Good Time was published in 2019. Her favourite Chantal Akeman film is News From Home.



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Chantal Akerman’s ‘My Mother Laughs’

Book Review

October 2019

Nicole Flattery

Book Review

October 2019

There’s a scene in the documentary I Don’t Belong Anywhere, about the Belgian filmmaker’s Chantal Akerman’s life and work, where she discusses her only...

Book Review

August 2018

Lorrie Moore's ‘See What Can Be Done’

Nicole Flattery

Book Review

August 2018

Lorrie Moore writes in her introduction to See What Can Be Done that, at the start of her career,...

SKITAFLIT, DAY 49   704 Dawn Breaks above the grey-dusted grey-fronted houses 903 Well the office is looking just lovely today 916 Crazy Katy has stolen my pencils again 918 Actually she is denying all knowledge of my pencils 920 Still, who else would have stolen a perfectly good set of pencils? Who? 922 Crazy Katy writes, I know you’re writing about me If I want to I’ll go and find it I say, fine, go and find it, whatever 924 Crazy Katy says, I won’t bother, it’s too pathetic But of course she’ll look anyway     1100 Mother Mary and the blessed saints, that was a long meetingmeetingmeeting 1105 This morning I had three meeting meeting meeting and tomorrow I have seven meeting meeting meeting meeting meeting meeting meeting 1109 During the rest of my working life I will have 45,000 meeting meeting meeting meeting meeting meeting 1454 A pause during which I was seized by a mild bout of complete and utter futility but I think it’s passed at least for the time being 1457 At least for now 1516 If a ten tonne truck crashes into us 1517 To die by your side, the pleasure the privilege is mine 1519 I don’t mean by your side, Crazy Katy, not yours – if you’re looking, which I know you are 1523 There is a light that never goes out 1526 I don’t know, perhaps it could be an allegory for faith or hope or something but perhaps it could just mean: 1527 There is a light that never goes out 1735 Thank Christ I am going home     CYN23, DAY 49   901 Oh do not ask me what I am 902 I know what I am 903 I am human I am dynamite     MANNATING, DAY 49   1335 Gorgons awake, I have lost my charger 1405 If it all goes black, it really all goes black 1430 So I have developed a new sense of the temporal continuum 1445 and instead of going forwards I am now going sideways 1446 Crabwise 1501 So in fact these progressions by minute by minute by minute 1504 are not happening in a linear forwards motion but are going along to the side – edging – 1510 and instead of us proceeding onwards to some destination 1511

Contributor

January 2018

Nicole Flattery

Contributor

January 2018

Nicole Flattery’s criticism has appeared in the Guardian, The Irish Times and the LRB. Her story collection Show Them A Good...

Carmen Maria Machado’s ‘Her Body and Other Parties’

Book Review

January 2018

Nicole Flattery

Book Review

January 2018

I’m reluctant to admit this but it’s often easier for me to write about a book I hated rather than a book I loved....

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poetry

June 2013

Major Organs

Melissa Lee-Houghton

poetry

June 2013

When they take my brain out of its casing it will be fluorescent and the mortuary assistant will have...

fiction

June 2017

Turksib

Lutz Seiler

TR. Alexander Booth

fiction

June 2017

The jolts of the tracks were stronger now and came at irregular intervals. With my arms outstretched, I held...

Art

February 2015

Filthy Lucre

Rye Dag Holmboe

Art

February 2015

White silhouettes sway against softly gradated backgrounds: blues, purples, yellows and pinks. The painted palm trees are tacky and...

 

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