Mala – Vol.1 Issue 2 – The Faultines Issue

The new literary journal from the Chengdu Bookworm, Mala, has issued its second number and it’s chunkier and slicker than the launch issue so things must be going well out west in the literary sense. Gotta support initiatives like this really.

MaLa – the Chengdu Bookworm Literary Journal is a collection of short fiction, literary non-fiction, poetry and work in translation, supported by art works and photography. The MaLa Faultlines issue looks at geological fractures and beyond, to intersections of gender, class, age and culture.
Featured in the Faultlines Issue:

Original works by award-winning American writer, comedian and radio contributor David Sedaris, Leave Me Alone Chengdu author Murong Xuecan, the Inspector Chen series author Qiu Xiaolong, Hong-Kong based humorist Nury Vittachi.

Interviews with Bi Feiyu, Jonathan Watts, Peter Hessler

Chengdu photographer Zhou An’s images of Shuijingfang

Photojournalist Lei Yu’s documentation of the Wenchuan Earthquake

New Fiction from China and Beyond

Reportage and Memoir from Wenchuan

Poetry in Translation by Xi Yongjun, Han Dong and Ma Yan

Excerpts from Ian Buruma, Fergal Keane, Graham Earnshaw, Roy Kesey and Michael Kohn

Mala’s web site is here – so you can send them submissions or order copies