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March 16, 2010
They Are Only Dreams
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The Barcelona Review
Issue 69December 2009
Reviewed by Henry F. Tonn
I read a selection of stories from three different online publications and was bored with the same old same old (I find it hard to believe that editors think anyone is going to read this banal stuff), and then I stumbled on to The Barcelona Review. Thanks goodness! The editors really live in Barcelona and say, "We like good...
February 23, 2010
they are only dreams
January 17, 2010
They Are Only Dreams by Felix Calvino
This story in The Barcelona Review is a really quick read- and will give you the chills. Made me wish I had more faith…
December 25, 2009
they are only dreams
Félix Calvino 2009. This electronic version of "They Are Only Dreams" ... Félix Calvino is the author of the short story collection A Hatful of Cherries. ...
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August 1, 2009
Interview - Anna Horner
Félix Calvino, author of the short story collection A Hatful of Cherries, was born in Galicia, Spain, and lives in Australia, where he is undertaking a Master of Philosophy in Creative Writing at the University of Queensland. In A Hatful of Cherries, Calvino presents 16 short pieces and shows that stories do not have to be long to have sufficiently developed characters. The stories are beautifully written, with Calvino painting the scene so that y...
Review – Grady Harp
July 28, 2009
Tasty Morsels of Literature
For those who enjoy the short story genre this little book is a treasure house. Guest editor K Scott Forman has selected sixty-three works of fiction from writers around the world and has grouped these little microstories into the categories 'play>, rewind<<, fast forward>>, stop/eject, and pause||'. The concept is that of treating these vignettes as selections from a screen as though the reader becomes a viewer...
June 29, 2009
Review – Scope
In A Hatful of Cherries Felix Calvino offers the reader a charming taste of rural Spain and urban Australia. Born in Galicia in north-western Spain and later emigrating to Australia, the author's background and life experiences are evident in this body of work.
Some stories in the collection are sweet, bitter, dark, rosy with the optimism of youth. Some are melancholy, mysterious. Others offer amusing or insightful glimpses of the everyday. All are rich with a sense of place, ...
April 25, 2009
Review - Grady Harp
Taut, Simple Stories that Linger
Félix Calvino deserves a much wider audience here in the United States. His collection of short stories here gathered under the title A HATFUL OF CHERRIES are piquant brief morsels that range from a few pages to extended stories and every story manages to paint imagery and place and character so clearly with the most economical style that each appears like a flashback of thought in every reader's memory bank.
Calvino was born in...
