Alex Taylor

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The name of the nearest river

an inside look at the collapse of General Motors--and the Detroit auto industry

Sixty to zero

- On vient de l'apprendre, Alex Taylor, c'est officiel, votre pays quitte l'Union européenne... Il est 7 h 17, le 24 juin 2016. J'apprends la nouvelle en direct sur un plateau de télévision. Le Brexit m'arrache une partie de mon identité. Je choisis mon camp : je veux devenir Français ! Qui mieux qu'Alex Taylor, citoyen européen s'il en est, britannique d'origine ayant fait sa carrière et sa vie on the continent, pour dévoiler les vraies causes, souvent mal comprises, du Brexit ? C'est un livre personnel, teinté d'humour et de nostalgie, un plaidoyer vibrant, rempli de tendresse, pour cette Europe en laquelle il croit plus que jamais.

Brexit, l'autopsie d'une illustion

Alex Taylor nous fait partager son amour des langues dans tout ce qu'elles ont d'imprévisible, d'invraisemblable, d'intraduisible même. Saviez-vous que la langue la plus parlée au monde, le mandarin, n'a pas de mots pour "oui" ni pour "non" ? Que l'on ne dit pas " je t'aime" de la même façon ailleurs ? Saviez-vous que de vastes pans de l'humanité vivent très bien sans les fioritures extravagantes que constituent les verbes " être " et " avoir " ? Que les Japonais n'ont pas de mot pour " eau " ? Que les Néerlandais ne se font pas de sourires, mais des " rires luisants ", et que, contrairement à ce que l'on pense, le français est une langue infiniment plus drôle que l'anglais ? Alex Taylor, polyglotte curieux et passionné, nous dit avec une touche d'humour typiquement british pourquoi l'indicible beauté des langues le laisse parfois " tout ouïe, bouche bée ".

comment tomber amoureux des langues

Bouche bée, tout ouïe

The weather is stormy, and the room is dark and cold. Michael dreams about a woman in the comfort of his bed, missing her warmth against his naked body. He ponders, wondering what he can do to change his lifestyle and crummy house. He hates his job and his daily routine. This isn't just any morning, though. Michael is about to embark on a journey that will change his perspective on life. Darkest Light is a fantasy and a romance, full of mystical creatures, magical scenes and a beautiful alternative world, which will set your imagination loose.

Darkest Light

finding home

Short stories set in Kentucky from a prize-winning author who “writes with generosity and understanding of rural and small town life” (Chris Offutt, author of Country Dark). Like a room soaked in the scent of whiskey, perfume, and sweat, the atmosphere of these stories is at once intoxicating, vulnerable, and full of brawn, revealing the hidden dangers in the coyote-infested fields, rusty riverbeds, and abandoned logging trails of Kentucky. In one story, a man spends seven days in a jon boat with his fiddle and a Polaroid camera, determined to enact vengeance on the water-logged body of a used car salesman; in another, a demolition derby enthusiast watches his two wild, burning love interests duke it out, only to determine he would rather be left alone entirely. Together, these stories present a resonant debut collection from an unexpected new voice in Southern fiction, a recipient of the Thomas and Lillie D. Chaffin Award for Appalachian Writing, the Barry Hannah Prize for Fiction, and the Eric Hoffer Award in General Fiction. “This debut collection pulls readers into rural Kentucky and hammers them with the despair and frustration that drive his fierce, battered denizens of the Bluegrass State.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “[Taylor] writes with wit, zest and skill . . . In the long queue of very good contemporary Southern writers, here’s a guy who can cut to the front.” —The Minneapolis Star-Tribune

Stories

The Name of the Nearest River

Joy Hutchinson

Follow the Christmas stories of Mary, Joseph, the shepherds and the wise men. The books in this series come with a thread and the whole collection looks very attractive hanging on a Christmas tree.

The Shepherd's Christmas

The bastard stepchild of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men and Daniel Woodrell's Winter's Bone.

The Marble Orchard

Kurt Newton

Jennifer Porter

Sanitarium Magazine is an independent periodical magazine, dedicated to bringing audiences the best in horror from around the globe. Within the pages of Sanitarium Magazine you'll find stories that will keep you up late at night, poems that will haunt you, and new reasons to be afraid of the dark. This issue featured fiction and dark verse by: Alex Taylor, Kurt Newton, Jennifer Porter, Natalie Ferrigno, Lee Andrew Forman, Gary Ives, Anthony Watson, Mike Murphy, Patrick Winters, Scott J. Couturier, J.L Cummings, K.D. Azariah-Kribbs, David Rose, Miracle Austin, Edwin Black, Christina Sng, Lucas Chapman, Sidney Williams, L.N. Loch, Raphaelle Race, Kolby Diaz, Serena Jayne, Thomas Vaughn, Billy Lyons, Alexander Schuhr, Russell Archey, JR Ware, Ben Howels. As well as interviews with Barry Skelhorn and Kristin Holland.

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