In the author’s words

* Like, embrace the pain: the Bret Easton Ellis interview (with Kathy Charles), parts one and two

* The epic qualities of outwardly ordinary lives: By Nightfall and Michael Cunningham in Australia

* 1001 Australian Nights: Gerard Elson interviews Dave Graney, parts one and two

* A dream-logic London squid riff: an interview with China Miéville, parts one and two

* Exquisite restraint, maximum expression: an interview with Colm Tóibín (parts one and two)

* Both ways is the only way she wants it: an interview with Maile Meloy

* Elif Batuman, author of The Possessed: a ‘responsive’ interview

* Pleasure, memory, decay, and The Stranger’s Child: an interview with Alan Hollinghurst

* Peter Goldsworthy on Gravel

* My interview with Alex Miller at Perth Writers Festival in 2010 (audio)

* In the end we all fade to black: a ‘responsive’ interview with Kathy Charles, author of Hollywood Ending

* Tom Cho: a ‘responsive’ interview

* Lisa Dempster on walking the henro michi in Japan and her memoir Neon Pilgrim (2009)

Commentary/events

* Chairing panels at writers’ festivals: a few things I’ve learnt (2009)

* Hide & Seek: Melbourne

* In November 2010, I trialled my first ereader, the Sony Reader Pocket Edition

* Some notes on the ‘new world’ of publishing

* Sending out your books for review: a few tips

* 10 things about Ubud Writers and Readers Festival 2009

* Fragments from the Sydney Writers’ Festival 2012

Reviews

* My review of Ali Alizadeh‘s Iran: My Grandfather

* ’If only a nippleless bra could make it all work’: Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story

* Investing in Rainbows: Lisa Lang‘s Utopian Man 

* Matthia Dempsey on Patti Smith‘s Just Kids