• How does London make one feel?

    A.S. Byatt in The Children’s Book (2009) answers: He felt unreal in London, as though his flesh and blood were in abeyance, as though he was a simulacrum of a boy, floating along Gower Street with its prim houses, dodging…

  • What is money?

    A.S. Byatt in The Children’s Book (2009) answers: Money was freedom. Money was aesthetic. Money was Arab stallions, not rough cobs. Money was not being shouted at. […] Money was freedom. Money was life.  -p. 59 How poor can one…

  • Who is the best-loved child?

    A.S. Byatt in The Children’s Book (2009) answers: The parents […] found it hard in practice to do what they believed in theory they should do, which was to love all the children equally. A man and a woman with…

  • Cha contributors in Quarterly Literary Review Singapore

    – Three Cha contributors have new works published in the April 2011 issue of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore. Read Jennifer Wong’s poem “The Find” and story “The Assistant”; Bernard Henrie’s poem “The Moon a Late Bus”; and O Thiam Chin’s story…

  • It is not enough to look at ‘the full picture’

    It is not enough to look at ‘the full picture’. We must look further. And this is why: . Take Quinten Massys’s notorious The Ugly Duchess, with her outsize jaw and porcine nose, too deluded to realise how monstrous she looks…

  • Two writers-in-residence positions (one local and one foreign) at Nanyang Technological University

    $1.5m programme to boost creative writing Year-long NTU faculty posts for local, foreign writers to hone craft A NEW chapter has opened for writers to pursue their craft. Two writers-in-residence positions at Nanyang Technological University’s (NTU) division of English will be…

  • [Royal Wedding Hyper Excited Edition] from Melvyn Bragg’s In Our Time Newsletter 28/04/2011

    Text by Melvyn Bragg. Images and [insertions] by yours truly. ‘Union Jack’ or ‘Union Flag’ – say ‘Union Flag’ if you want to sound upper class. I saw London en fete.  Union Jacks, five abreast, went from Upper Regent Street,…

  • The launch of Papa Osumbal’s Pan Chai – A Filipino Boy | 29 April

    [Click image to enlarge] Papa Osumbal’s poetry was published in issue #4 and issue #10 of Cha. His poems “At Hac Sa Beach, Macau” and “A Bum’s Demise” were discussed on A Cup of Fine Tea. ––

  • Marc Vincenz in The Nervous Breakdown

    – Marc Vincenz’s memoir “Siberia or Bust: Big Balls and Eight Million Dollars” is now published in The Nervous Breakdown. Read the piece here. – Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue 10 of Cha. – –

  • Marc Vincenz in October Babies

    – Marc Vincenz’s poem “Old World”, previously published in Caper Literary Journal, is now up at October Babies. – Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue 10 of Cha. ––