“Go, litel bok, go, litel myn tragedye”
So said (or rather ‘quoth’) Geoffrey Chaucer, commending his Troilus & Criseyde to the gods and his public. Not unlike the Litro team on deadline day, sending our own ‘litel bok’ out into the world; onto the tubes; into bars, shops and galleries all over London; and most importantly, into the hands of you – our readers.
September’s issues carries a superb, surreal cover by our new designer Anastasia Sichkarenko, and is brimming with stories of journeys. Chris McCabe takes us on a family expedition to the lost heart of Dagenham; gothic surrealist Bruce McClure imagines a fishing trip gone wrong; and Matthew Licht’s bemused traveller finds himself trapped in an erotic threesome in ‘Amourang’.
Jay Bernard presents Budo, the first in a series of comic strip reviews. There are excerpts from Maxi Kim’s One Break, A Thousand Blows! and Tarell Alvin McCraney’s In the Red and Brown Water. Plus all the latest literary events for you bookish party animals.
All in all, a bumper issue… If Chaucer was around today, I reckon he’d have loved it!
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