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From the dark forest, somewhere between the Baltic and the Balkans, comes Holzweg, a collection of 33 short stories by Aris Roussinos and by Richard Short, mournfully illustrated by Richard Short. Holzweg Magazine will soon be published regularly, in glossy handholdable format and at laughable cost. Contributions in the house style are eagerly sought.We would like: articles and stories about accordion-playing gipsies...philosophical chetniks...rebetika...consumptive artillery officers...slivovitz-befuddled woodcutters...hasidic rabbis playing backgammon with death...and suchlike.
Aris Roussinos: After leaving the Konigsberg Artillery Academy, Aris Roussinos tried unsuccesfully to publish his first novel, Balkan Gothic. He now makes television programmes for lost souls, and can often be found in Somine on Kingsland High St eating aubergine stew.
Richard Short: Currently spending his days in the Newcastle office of a law firm that advertises on TV, Richard would prefer to do almost anything else.

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My Interests

ACHTUNG!!!!

To read everything written for Holzweg thus far, go to this;

http://holzweg-magazine.blogspot.com/ ....

I'd like to meet:

Reckless publishing heirs with more money than sense and a taste for the woefully unerotic and morbidly gothic.Contributors.Depressed Slavs.

Books:

Aris: Ivo Andric, 1001 Nights, Wolfgang Koeppen, Lermontov, Potocki, Hardy, M R James, Cavafy, Rebecca West, Apuleius, Evelyn Waugh, Yashar Kemal, Thomas Mann, Kinglake, Colin Thubron, Robert Graves, Paddy Leigh Fermor, Peter Gay, Ismail Kadare, Toby Litt, Philip Meadows Taylor, Lampedusa, E E Evans-Pritchard, Frederic Prokosch, J K Huysmans, Frederick Rolfe, Paul Bowles, Driss ben Hamed Charhadi, Saki, Gibbon, 'The Phenomenology of Perception' by Peaches Geldof.

Richard: Wolfgang Koeppen, Robert Musil, Joseph Roth, Isaac Babel, Knut Hamsun, Chekhov's stories, Hardy's poems, Waugh's comedies, Saki, Jan Potocki , Lucius Apuleius , Daniil Kharms , Patrick McGrath, Bohumil Hrabal, James Hogg.

My Blog

Timo and Masha (by Richard Short)

Timo and Mashaby Richard ShortTimofey and Maksim had been cooped up for four days inhaling each other's farts and growing irritable when they decided enough was enough and they went to the money pot f...
Posted by Holzweg on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 08:45:00 PST

The Secret Museum (by Aris Roussinos)

Like The Tumescent Golem of Prague and Stremnitza, The Secret Museum was originally written for a now-defunct avant-porn magazine called Tea With Bernard. The brief was to cover all sexual tastes with...
Posted by Holzweg on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 06:28:00 PST

The Station at B- (by Richard Short)

The Station at B-by Richard ShortTheodor Frings had taken the underground train from A- to meet his girl in C-, but the train stopped short at B-, a seedy part of the city which made Theodor Frings qu...
Posted by Holzweg on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 06:43:00 PST

Chemnitz (by Aris Roussinos)

Chemnitzby Aris RoussinosThe connecting train to Chemnitz was not scheduled to leave Holzweg till eight, which left Istvan with precisely forty-four minutes to buy a drink and a filled roll. Steam cur...
Posted by Holzweg on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 05:47:00 PST

The Game of Chess (by Richard Short)

The Game of Chessby Richard ShortHector Stein spent every minute of every day playing chess against his good friend Heinz Spector. Sometimes he took a break from the game to fill their glasses with vo...
Posted by Holzweg on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 05:40:00 PST