Hardy Griffin

Excerpt By David Rich on February 17, 2021 inFocusLiterature This text, which is entitled “Suez,” is an excerpt from The Mirrored Palace by David Rich. Ali leafed through the big volume of the Thousand and One Nights on his lap. When he stopped, he turned the book around and passed it on to me. The drawing was of a boy peeking around a curtain at a woman’s calf, bare to the knee, raised and held in a man’s hand. “I would like to tell you… I was born into the Muzziana tribe. Bedouins.

By Hardy Griffin on December 9, 2020 inLiteratureSpotlight Imagine you published a novel in 1996. Quite a coup, for beyond the longshot odds of having a book published by a major press, this one is set in 17th-century Saxony and incorporates humor and fantastical elements, such as a speaking, and thinking, duck.

By Hardy Griffin on November 25, 2020 in Conversations, Literature, Main Posts In 1996, W.W. Norton released a gem-like purple clothbound novel entitled Free City, by Eric Darton. I read it and became a lifelong fan, but was always saddened that it had not been released in paperback. In October of 2020, the novel was reissued in paperback and e-book versions by The Dalkey Archive Press.