Baret Magarian

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Baret Magarian is the author of Mirror and Silhouette, a novella set in Venice; the novel The Fabrications; and, most recently, the story collection Melting Point.

  • A black and white photo of a man using a cane staring at the buildings in an otherwise empty city

    The Italian Quarantine

    March 23, 2020 Baret Magarian
    Photos by Pierpaolo Florio A novelist living in quarantine in Florence looks back at Italy’s cultural history and then forward, considering whether something positive might rise from the ruins th…
  • The cover to Melting Point by Baret Magarian

    Melting Point by Baret Magarian

    Baret Magarian
    Norfolk, United Kingdom. Salt Publishing. 213 pages.   The fourteen stories in this provocative collection critique postmodern culture, whose social hierarchies and commodity capitalism, fed by “blood…
  • Photo by Brook Ward (Flickr.com/brookward)

    The Meltdown

    January 2016
    Baret Magarian
    Photo by Brook Ward  (Flickr.com/brookward) Some years ago a diabolical fire, triggered by lightning, ravaged Donmark cathedral. It was a terrible tragedy, though fortunately no lives were lost and n…