Susan McCallum-Smith writes essays, fiction, and reviews. Her work has appeared in, among others, AGNI, The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, TriQuarterly, the Dublin Review of Books, and the Scottish Review of Books. Her story collection, Slipping the Moorings, was published in 2009. She lives in Scotland.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
The Guy in the Kitchen
Susan McCallum-Smith and Andrew O’Hagan discuss Julian Assange, Bitcoin, the invention of Ronald Pinn, and O'Hagan's latest book, "The Secret Life."...
Coorie Doon: Dirda’s Year of Reading
Michael Dirda writes about reading, but do we want to read it?...
The Un-Accidental
In “How to Be Both,” time is not linear, receding behind us, but layered, coiled beneath us; we are walking palimpsests....
Stream of Pre-Consciousness
Eimear McBride felt that a part of life wasn’t being expressed through straightforward language....
On Risk and Personal Belief
Fear paralyzes, irrationality kills....
Geoff at Sea
Susan McCallum-Smith discusses Geoff Dyer's "Another Great Day at Sea."...
The Stewards of Ultimate Things: Douglas Bauer’s “What Happens Next?”
Susan McCallum-Smith reflects on loving, living, dying, and dinner in her review of Doug Bauer’s new collection of essays....
