'I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.' — Vladimir Nabokov At the moment I spend half my days at a scratched antique table, the chair beneath me creaking with age. On my left is a pile of books and papers including about eight literary journals I've … Continue reading LiteraryMinded turns four
Month: May 2011
Bothersome Words wins 'Word' category in Best Australian Blogs comp
Remember how a few weeks ago I said I was a judge in the Sydney Writers' Centre Best Australian Blogs 2011 competition? Well the winners have now been announced. Sydney Writers' Centre whittled down the entrants for me in the 'Word' category to a list of five finalists: Call My Agent, Bothersome Words, Creative Penn, Graham Storrs and … Continue reading Bothersome Words wins 'Word' category in Best Australian Blogs comp
Guest review: Lyndon Riggall on Embassytown by China Miéville
9780230754317 Pan Macmillan, May 2011 (Aus, UK, US/Kindle) Reviewed by Lyndon Riggall I admit defeat. I’ve been trying to present these events with a structure. I simply don’t know how everything happened. Perhaps because I didn’t pay proper attention, perhaps because it wasn’t a narrative, but for whatever reasons, it doesn’t want to be what I want to … Continue reading Guest review: Lyndon Riggall on Embassytown by China Miéville
Brief review of The Kid on the Karaoke Stage in this month’s ABR
Just a quick note to say that I wrote an 'in brief' review of the excellent short story collection The Kid on the Karaoke Stage and Other Stories, edited by Georgia Richter (Aus), for this month's Australian Book Review, out now in print and online. Here's an extract: 'While the stories in The Kid on the Karaoke … Continue reading Brief review of The Kid on the Karaoke Stage in this month’s ABR
Guest review: Imogen Baratta on Blue Skies by Helen Hodgman
Text Publishing 9781921758133, March 2011 (Aus) (also UK) Reviewed by Imogen Baratta Helen Hodgman’s Blue Skies tells the story of an unnamed young wife and mother living in the 'heart shaped island' of Tasmania. The agonising banality of her day-to-day life plays out within the confines of stark, suffocating suburbia, amid the manicured lawns and … Continue reading Guest review: Imogen Baratta on Blue Skies by Helen Hodgman
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