• Sushma Joshi’s The End of the World | Get your copy in Hong Kong

    –– The End of the World by Cha contributor and Nepalese writer Sushma Joshi, is now available in Bookazine, HK. The fifty copies will arrive soon, so please go to the bookstore and book your copy before the stocks run out! This edition…

  • Why do Western vampires know kung fu?

    Kim Newman in Anno Dracula (2011 [1991]) answers: The Chinese movie tradition of the hopping vampire (jiang shi or geung si) is one of the odder strains of vampirism. I saw Ricky Lau’s Mr Vampire (1985) in London’s Chinatown before the…

  • What advantages attended shaving by night?

    James Joyce in Ulysses (1922) answers: A softer beard: a softer brush if intentionally allowed to remain from shave to shave in its agglutinated lather: a softer skin if unexpectedly encountering female acquaintances in remote places at incustomary hours: quiet reflections…

  • Marc Vincenz in Metazen

    – Two poems by Marc Vincenz, “Swimming Sheila in Psychopomp” and “The Uh-Huh”, are now published in Metazen. Read them here. –Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue 10 of Cha.––

  • Fatty Goes to China: Royston Tester reads | 25 August, 2011

    Author Royston Tester Reading at the Opposite House Reading :: 7pm, Thursday, August 25, 2011 Venue :: Atrium of The Opposite House RSVP :: liyu@redgategallery.com [limited seating available to the first 40 guests] Where is ‘home’? Does an adopted one matter? Who’s adopting whom?…

  • Marc Vincenz in Fleeting

    Marc Vincenz’s new poem “While Facing the Urinal” is now featured in Fleeting Magazine. Read it here. –Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue 10 of Cha.––

  • Which is the most famous elephant in literature?

    Do you know other famous elephants? –––– The Elephant is Slow to Mate by D.H. Lawrence The elephant, the huge old beast, is slow to mate;he finds a female, they show no haste they waitfor the sympathy in their vast…

  • W.F. Lantry in Up the Staircase

    – W.F. Lantry’s poem “Dawn” is now published in the fourteenth issue of Up the Staircase. Read it here. – – W.F. Lantry’s poetry was published in Issue #12 and Issue #14 of Cha.  ––

  • Three ways to deal with an apocalypse

    Morning after the Flood  1928 From Carol Jacobs’s “Playing Jane Campion’s Piano: Politically” (1994): A Catholic priest, a Protestant minister, and a rabbi were walking along the beach together when a great angel with diaphanous wings approached them. He announced an apocalypse near at hand, telling them of…

  • Whispers on the Wind – A Reading of Russell C. Leong’s "Dreams and Dust"

    ––Guest post by reader Charles Kress. Kuan Yin What of the past that whispersSuch winds blow our words awayWhere have they goneMust we always start anewWill dead voices never cease – from “Blood Secrets” —–– Not long ago I wrote…