What the short story needs above all is for one of the big publishers to get an equivalent series up and running and to support it and promote it.
Nicholas RoyleI love experimental writing, when it's good, and good examples are much more likely to be found in the short form.
Nicholas RoyleI was interested in the ways that artists responded to totalitarianism - the Czech Jazz Section, Romanian absurdist theatre, Brecht's alienation effect. The anything-goes, anarchic qualities of jazz and Surrealism seemed to offer a way to cross some of the forbidden frontiers of Eastern Europe.
Nicholas Royle