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Lee Rourke

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Lee Rourke is the author of the short story collection 'Everyday' [Social Disease Books], the novel 'The Canal' [Melville House] and the forthcoming 'A Brief History of Fables: From Aesop to Flash Fiction' [Hesperus Press]. He has been anthologized in Love Hotel City [Creation Books], Writing From The Edge [Siren Song Press, Canada], 3AM: London, Paris, New York [Social Disease Books] and The Beat Anthology [Blackheath Books]. He is also a literary critic, writing regularly for The Guardian, The Independent, TLS, The Observer, and the New Statesman, as well as leading book blogs such as Ready, Steady, Book [www.readysteadybooks.com]. He is Contributing Editor for 3:AM Magazine [www.3ammagazine.com] and also blogs at SPONGE! [www.scarecrowco ...more

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Start Again . . .

Hullo, I've decided to start blogging again. I have no idea why. To celebrate here's me reading from The Canal over at InDigest Magazine.

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Books by Lee Rourke

Average rating: 3.58 · 140 ratings · 42 reviews · 4 distinct works

	The Canal 3.43 avg rating — 110 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:
	A Brief History of Fables: From Aesop to Flash Fiction 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Der Kanal: Roman by Lee Rourke (Goodreads Author), Roberta Schneider (Übersetzer) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Best European Fiction 2012 by Aleksandar Hemon (Editor), Nicole Krauss (Preface), David Dephy (Contributor) 3.88 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Lee Rourke gave to: Sick City by Tony O'Neill	My rating:
A wonderful novel.
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Lee Rourke liked Little My's review of The Canal: " Lee Rourke’s debut novel The Canal is a simple story that packs big themes: an unnamed man quits his job one day and walks to the canal to sit on a bench. While on the bench he aims to embrace the boredom that envelopes him. At first the narrator... " Read more of this review »
Jul 06, 2010 01:28pm · see review
Lee Rourke gave to: EVER by Blake Butler	My rating:
Currently re-reading this Beckettian exploration of voice, space and light. It's a truly wonderful, brave novella.
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