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by Brian Oaster • May 5, 2021 at 10:01 am images courtesy of Keith Rosson.
God sends the four horsemen of the Apocalypse on a team building retreat aboard a cruise. An ex-Nazi works as the muscle for a revivalist cult on the road. A chain smoking tooth fairy wonders what to do when she witnesses child abuse. These quandaries propel the pages of Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons, the recently published first short story collection by Portland novelist Keith Rosson. Equal parts haunted, hilarious, and deeply human, Rosson’s stories straddle genres while maintaining a distinctive, jagged voice. That’s apparent in this excerpt from the story “Their Souls Climb the Room”:
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Tracey Thorn . ‘It’s more likely that I’ll be remembered for a single line of a song than for anything else I’ll ever write’ Photograph: Katherine Anne Rose/The Observer
Tracey Thorn . ‘It’s more likely that I’ll be remembered for a single line of a song than for anything else I’ll ever write’ Photograph: Katherine Anne Rose/The Observer
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To mark its reigning year as European Capital of Culture,
The Stinging Fly invited writers established and new to submit work inspired by the City of the Tribes. The result is this Galway-themed edition with Lisa McInerney (
The Glorious Heresies) at the helm and Elaine Feeney (
As You Were) as poetry editor.
In her introduction, Lisa McInerney writes that Galway is more complex than its popular image.’ We can take it then that this collection intends to reflect on that very complexity. Galway is frequently romanticised, and not just from the outside.
It’s long been a magnet for creative types, seen as somewhat bohemian and ‘studenty’, a destination of choice for hen and stag parties, and the last bastion of civilisation before the wilds of Connemara. The miscellany of writing here however shows that the traditional associations don’t sufficiently sum up the city anymore, either in concept or reality, if indeed they ever did.
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