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Andrew Blackman

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Andrew Blackman is a former Wall Street Journal staff writer, now living in London and concentrating on fiction. His latest novel, A Virtual Love, deals with identity in the age of social media. His debut novel On the Holloway Road (Legend Press, 2009) won the Luke Bitmead Writer’s Bursary and was shortlisted for the Dundee International Book Prize.

His articles, essays and stories have also been published in Monthly Review, Post Road, Carillon and Smoke, and in books by Twenty Stories Publishing, Negative Press and Arachne Press, among others. He has a Bachelor’s degree in modern history from Oxford University and a Master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University.

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	A Virtual Love 3.48 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On The Holloway Road 3.81 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flash in the Attic: 33 Very Short Stories by Michelle Richmond (Goodreads Author), Corey Mesler (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Clare Needham (Contributor) 4.11 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spark: A Creative Anthology, Volume 2 by Brian James Lewis (Editor), Robert J. Sawyer (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Christine Edwards (Contributor) 4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stations: Short Stories Inspired by the Overground Line by Bartle Sawbridge, Cherry Potts (Goodreads Author) (editor), David Bausor liked it 3.00 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Still: Short Stories Inspired by Photographs of Vacated Spaces by Roelof Bakker (Editor), Richard Beard, Ava Homa 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Good Reads: The Bath Short Story Award 2013 by Debz Hobbs-Wyatt (Goodreads Author), Andrew Blackman (Goodreads Author), Eamonn Martin Griffin (Goodreads Author) 3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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The Immortal: Borges Marathon, Part 27

As today’s billionaires continue to pour money into immortality research, it’s worth taking a step back to ask what immortality would be like. Jorge Luis Borges provides some surprising answers in his short story “The Immortal”.

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“So really there's almost no point in planning anything out at all, because life is so infinitely complex that you can almost never just take a straight road from A to B without going via the whole rest of the alphabet first, and all because a butterfly happened to flap its wings in Thailand”
― Andrew Blackman, On The Holloway Road

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message 5: by Richard (last edited Apr 23, 2013 09:27AM)

Apr 23, 2013 08:52AM

Thanks for adding me, Andrew. I look forward to reading your updates and more of your reviews. I like making recommendations too, but you're so well read I hesitate to do it. However, if there is any author or topic you see among my shelves that you are curious about, I'd be more than happy to advise if I can.

As for the giveaway, well, c'est la vie! Maybe next time... :)

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