Simon Lowe

issue one is finally out now! you can find it here: thecandidreview.org/issue-one/ happy reading!

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

@fullstopmag @simondavidlowe @ABRAMSbooks An honor to be read this way @simondavidlowe !! Much gratitude to you.

"[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): full-stop.net/2023/12/20/rev….

"[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): full-stop.net/2023/09/27/rev….

"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: tinyurl.com/33jky76j

"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): tinyurl.com/pfykjbae.

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

"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): full-stop.net/2022/12/23/rev…

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

"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): full-stop.net/2022/10/31/rev…

"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: tinyurl.com/yd2c6hdp

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.” prismmagazine.ca/2022/06/09/cau…

First we're kicking things back to @simondavidlowe , whose essay on the video nasties craze in the UK is not one to miss! neotextreview.com/culture/only-a…

INSIGNIFICANCE (@GalleyBeggars) by James Clammer, reviewed by Simon Lowe. full-stop.net/2022/03/04/rev…

DEATH FUGUE (@RestlessBooks) by Sheng Keyi, translated by Shelly Bryant, reviewed by Simon Lowe. full-stop.net/2022/01/26/rev…

"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) full-stop.net/2021/12/06/rev…

We’re in the dealers’ room at Novacon 50

"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. clereviewofbooks.com/home/olive-moo…

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? neotextreview.com/culture/only-a…

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