Simon Lowe

Author, journalist. New novel, The World Is At War, Again, coming to a bookshop near you in June 2021 courtesy of @elsewhenpress

[The Candid Review | subs CLOSED! @thecandidrvw]

issue one is finally out now! you can find it here: https://t.co/eOiehIBy6T happy reading!

[Simon Lowe @simondavidlowe]

@BenPurkert @fullstopmag @ABRAMSbooks Thank you. I loved reading it! Congratulations.

[Full Stop @fullstopmag]

"[A] farcical adventure featur[ing] a sprawling cast of 21st century complexities: modern masculinity, faith, advertising, addiction, and the art of making good coffee."
@simondavidlowe reviews @BenPurkert's novel THE MEN CAN'T BE SAVED (@ABRAMSbooks):
https://t.co/vztJ0ZW3B3.

[Full Stop @fullstopmag]

"[Olsen's novel] doesn’t blur the lines between history and invention, fiction and nonfiction—it doesn’t recognize the existence of these lines in the first place."
@simondavidlowe reviews ALWAYS CRASHING IN THE SAME CAR by #LanceOlsen (@UnivofALPress): https://t.co/yyokEfE9eK.

[Full Stop @fullstopmag]

"Édouard Louis’s father is not dead, but the political ruling class in France have, in one way or another, killed him. And Louis intends to name names." @simondavidlowe reviews WHO KILLED MY FATHER by Édouard Louis, tr. by Lorin Stein @NewDirections: https://t.co/A2ksJif5Ro

[Full Stop @fullstopmag]

"In the end, we get everything, as promised: a life in a year and a year in a life—an everything diary." @simondavidlowe reviews A WRITER'S DIARY by @tobylitt (@GalleyBeggars): https://t.co/LxI19pP20u.

[James Clammer @JamesClammer]

Just received this, brand new and just out, from the pen of the one and only @paulclammer, who happens to also be my brother.

Wonderful account of a 'forgotten chapter' in Caribbean history.

@HurstPublishers #BlackCrown #Haiti

[Full Stop @fullstopmag]

"Could de Silva’s logos be meant as an expression of the divine? If so, what terrible things is God saying about us?" @simondavidlowe reviews @MarkdeSilva1's new novel THE LOGOS (@CLASHBooks): https://t.co/xRIkk5A5a0

[LEON Literary Review @LeonReview]

Looking for something great to read? Browse through our all new fiction issue. Terrific writing by these talented authors!

[Full Stop @fullstopmag]

"Boyle’s hybrid writing follows no writerly shape or genre trope, allowing his rich, inventive prose, blessed with a poet’s ear, to become the work." @simondavidlowe reviews Charles Boyle's 99 Interruptions (@CBeditions): https://t.co/N44cEBCYho

[Full Stop @fullstopmag]

"Tanner’s FAR WEST offers charm and
pathos, confronting the complexity of life in the
American West." @simondavidlowe reviews Ron
Tanner's new story collection from Elixir Press: https://t.co/HsdjuvfIkq

[PRISM international (Submissions Open!) @PrismLitMag]

This week, Simon Lowe reviews Kim Fu's “Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century.”

“The dualism of mind and body, the way our physical and internal selves alter in the wake of biological and technological change, is beautifully laid out.”

https://t.co/HNyZPwQqLi

[The Gutter Review @TheGutterReview]

First we're kicking things back to @simondavidlowe , whose essay on the video nasties craze in the UK is not one to miss!

https://t.co/G6twjTw4n2

[Full Stop @fullstopmag]

INSIGNIFICANCE (@GalleyBeggars) by James Clammer, reviewed by Simon Lowe. https://t.co/mB3Zceqi4s

[Full Stop @fullstopmag]

DEATH FUGUE (@RestlessBooks) by Sheng Keyi, translated by Shelly Bryant, reviewed by Simon Lowe. https://t.co/VjGIhsjWR0

[Full Stop @fullstopmag]

"WILD ANIMALS PROHIBITED is a remarkable collection of strange, unwelcoming stories, with a serious desire to disrupt complacent attitudes of the literary world." Simon Lowe reviews Subimal Misra's WILD ANIMALS PROHIBITED (@open_letter) https://t.co/ybS6ajNpwf

[Elsewhen Press @elsewhenpress]

We’re in the dealers’ room at Novacon 50

[Cleveland Review of Books @clereviewbooks]

"She seemed to establish herself as a watershed figure in literary modernism, alongside Woolf, Djuana Barnes, and Dorothy Richardson. But she never published again. She simply vanished." Simon Lowe revisits Olive Moore's forgotten classic, 𝘚𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘯. https://t.co/n0FXAmV6cJ

[Cunter S. Thompson @PunkRokMomJeans]

Time again to re-share this incredible piece by @simondavidlowe about the "video nasties" craze!

And I mean really is there any better horror film than the ones that feature slapdash sfx and no less than 100 gallons of red corn syrup?

https://t.co/BQGZbjXIvt

[Simon Lowe @simondavidlowe]

Great to be a part of this event, thanks for inviting me along to read my story.