Books
Lovers and Strangers Revisited
A collection of short stories set in Malaysia and Singapore. It runs the gamut of human relationships from matters of faith in a kampong, to matters of integrity in a bar, to matters of the heart in a colonial hotel. The author, originally from America, has lived in Malaysia since 1985 and knows the region well.
- Launch of Lovers and Strangers Revisited
(View the press release here) - Article: Inspiring Others to Write by Robert Raymer
(Download -- File format: PDF
| Size: 17kb) - Introduction to Lovers and Strangers. Revised!
(Download -- File format: PDF | Size: 113kb) - "Neighbors" story
(Download the entire story -- File format: PDF | Size: 45kb) - Online discussion - "Neighbors" story at Malaysian English Language Teaching Association (MELTA)
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Silverfish New Writing 4,
The 26 short stories selected for Silverfish’s fourth anthology are international writers most of whom have some connection with Penang or Malaysia. The contexts and themes of the stories vary a great deal but each conveys with telling clarity something of the sadnesses, joys and complexities of real life today.
- Robert’s foreword
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25 Malaysian Short Stories: Best of Silverfish New Writing 2001-2005,
Released by Silverfish Books to commemorate the fifth year of the Silverfish New Writing series, and due to the numerous requests for an anthology of entirely Malaysian Short Stories.
- Robert Raymer’s story “Waiting for My Father to Crash” is featured in this book.
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Collateral Damage
The chillingly clinical phrase collateral damage was originally coined by the Pentagon during the first Gulf War. It was used to euphemistically refer to the deaths and maiming (to say nothing of destroyed livelihoods, disrupted family lives and lost hopes) of innocent civilians who got caught in the crossfire. It rendered those casualties invisible in official reports and television broadcasts, and effectively kept them off the public conscience.
- Robert Raymer’s story “Lester is Lester” is featured in this book.
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Silverfish New Writing 5,
This time round we feature 23 writers; twelve are from (ie live in) Malaysia. Eight writers (also by place of residence) are from Singapore including Robert Yeo (poet, playwright and writer), Michael Vatikiotis (former editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review), Lim Thean Soo (posthumous) and Goh Sin Tub (posthumous).Of the others, two writers Jane Downing and Craig Cormick, are from Australia and Lawrence Gray is from Hong Kong.
- Robert Raymer’s story “Waiting for My Father to Crash” is featured in this book.
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