Skip to content

Christopher Deliso

The Official Author Website

  • About
    • Bio
    • Contact
    • Socials
  • Analysis & Consulting
    • Analysis
    • Consulting
    • Editorial
    • Speaking & Events
  • Fiction
    • Detective Grigoris Mysteries
    • Experimental Literature
    • Flash Fiction
    • Science Fiction & Dystopics
    • Short Stories
    • The Empire of California
  • History & Culture
    • Culture and Customs of Serbia and Montenegro
    • The History of Croatia and Slovenia
  • Reviews
    • Book Reviews
    • Music Reviews
  • Travel
    • Beaches & Waterways
    • Culinary Travel
    • Events Travel
    • Experiential Travel
    • Guidebooks
    • In-Flight Magazines
    • Lists & Itineraries
    • Outdoors & Rural Travel
    • Spiritual Travel
    • Urban Travel
Book ReviewsIrish LiteratureTravel
Editor November 27, 2023November 27, 2023 Irish music, Synge, travel writing

A New Double Review: Irish Traditional Music, and a Study of J.M. Synge’s Travel Writing

My latest review, over on Substack here, combines two media (music and text), commenting on complementary cultural productions, The first

Read More
Fiction
Editor October 31, 2023October 31, 2023 fiction, short stories

A Halloween Story from Christopher Deliso- ‘My Halloween at the Revival Society’

It is unlikely, almost impossible, for a writer to publish a story within a narrow-window themed section (such as Halloween

Read More
Fiction
Editor October 31, 2023October 31, 2023 fiction, short stories

New Fiction since the Summer from Christopher Deliso

The summer of 2023 was a very busy period of writing, rewriting and long edits for future submissions as the

Read More
Fiction
Editor October 31, 2023October 31, 2023 byzantine, mediterranean, poetry

New Poetry from Christopher Deliso, August-October 2023

Since August, several new publications have brought out a retrospective of some of the author’s poetry, going back to the

Read More
Irish Literature
Editor August 9, 2023August 9, 2023

A Fascinating New Podcast for Fans of Flann O’Brien

Earlier this summer, over on Substack, I compiled this review with Youtube clips of an excellent new podcast series that

Read More
Book ReviewsHistoryTurkey
Editor May 25, 2023May 25, 2023 british empire, cyprus, eastern mediterranean, egypt, famagusta, france, gallipoli, general maxwell, intelligence, israel, lemnos, maritime, mersin, seaplanes, soe, strategies, suez, syria, tactics, technology, turkey, wwi

An Irishman’s WWI East Med Memoir: Hard Lying (Eland, 2023)

In 1925, an Anglo-Irish former desert surveyor under British Egyptian colonial rule and then maritime intelligence officer in the Eastern

Read More
Writing
Editor May 25, 2023May 25, 2023 editing, low-tech, narratives, patience, storytelling, Substack, writing, writing craft

The Art of Long Revisions

Over on Substack, I was honored when recently asked to write a guest post by Winston Malone of The Storyletter

Read More
Book ReviewsGreeceTravel
Editor May 25, 2023May 25, 2023 crete, history, local customs, mountains, sfakia

A South Crete Travel Memoir: Peter Trudgill’s In Sfakia (2008)

I continue the tradition of publishing great reviews of worthy but obscure books on my Substack TLS newsletter with this

Read More
LiteraturreWriting
Editor May 25, 2023May 25, 2023 borges, chesterton, detective fiction, father brown, flamceau, reason, the blue cross, theology, valentin

The Genius of G.K. Chesterton: How Borges Led Me to “The Blue Cross”

This personal literary essay on the great G.K. Chesterton, humorist, man of principle, theologian and finally, detective-story legend known for

Read More
BalkansBook ReviewsHistory
Editor May 25, 2023May 25, 2023 albania, balkans, enver hoxha, history, illyrians, skenderbeg, soe, wwii

Two Books on Northern Albania

Bringing together two new publications from Oxford’s Signal Books in this review for my Substack newsletter, this lively discussion of

Read More
  • ← Previous
  • A New Double Review: Irish Traditional Music, and a Study of J.M. Synge’s Travel Writing
  • A Halloween Story from Christopher Deliso- ‘My Halloween at the Revival Society’
  • New Fiction since the Summer from Christopher Deliso
  • New Poetry from Christopher Deliso, August-October 2023
  • A Fascinating New Podcast for Fans of Flann O’Brien
Copyright © 2023 Christopher Deliso. All rights reserved.
Theme: ColorMag by ThemeGrill. Powered by WordPress.