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The Best of Barcelona INK
by
Ryan Chandler ,
Richard Manchester, Màrius Serra, John Short, Michael Eaude, Ian Rankin , Stephen Burgen, Jamie McKendrick
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The description should read: "Barcelona INK is the city's only literary magazine in English. This first collection of the best of its first eight issues is an intriguing mix. Including work by writers and poets such as Philip Levine, P.J. Kavanagh and Richard Gwyn alongside interviews with the city's more notorious literary residents such as Colm T ib n, Rupert Thomson and...more
Paperback, 1, 224 pages
Published
March 23rd 2012
by Catalonia Press
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First off is the FCC obligatory disclaimer that I received this book for free: I got this book in the mail for free through the awesome goodreads giveaways so my opinion of it may theoretically be tainted.
Now that that is out of the way, I have to come up with a cohesive review of the book and I just don't have one. I felt like I should have maybe given it 3 stars, but 2 stars says 'it was ok' and that's pretty much how I felt about it. The theme connecting these disparate interviews, poems and...more
Now that that is out of the way, I have to come up with a cohesive review of the book and I just don't have one. I felt like I should have maybe given it 3 stars, but 2 stars says 'it was ok' and that's pretty much how I felt about it. The theme connecting these disparate interviews, poems and...more
I really liked this collection of stories although it sometimes seemed very mixed, I found myself dipping in and out of it at random. I used to live in Barcelona and so I guess I was familiar with many of the places that come up in the stories many of which stretch from the 1930s to modern day.
The interviews were good, although to be honest, I found the one with Lydia Lunch quite offensive.
If you are looking for a book that tells you about Barcelona or Catalonia and what to see then I don't thin...more
The interviews were good, although to be honest, I found the one with Lydia Lunch quite offensive.
If you are looking for a book that tells you about Barcelona or Catalonia and what to see then I don't thin...more
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