I reviewed Brendan Gullifer's wonderful real estate satire Sold (Sleepers Publishing - Aus, Kindle) for ABC Radio National's The Book Show. The podcast is available on the website, as is the transcript. Have a listen/gander here. The good thing about national radio is that your Nanna can listen in.
Best of the Edinburgh Festival – Melbourne Comedy Festival
I reviewed this gig for RHUM - check it out if you like!
Charlotte Wood's Literary Space
Charlotte Wood, author of The Children says... My writing room is a small room above a shed separate from our house in Marrickville, Sydney (I'm told the shed bit downstairs was once a stable; all I can say is that it must have been a very tiny horse). You can see the iron stair rail … Continue reading Charlotte Wood's Literary Space
Creative flaccidity
It doesn't happen often, but I'm feeling a bit that way today. And it's frustrating. Because I only really have a few hours on the weekend to work on fiction. I tapped out about 1000 words of 90s novel, but they weren't very inspired. They were limp and floppy. Hopefully next weekend will be better. … Continue reading Creative flaccidity
'Birds' – an extract
This is an extract from my short story 'Birds', published in Wet Ink issue 14, just out. I share the pages with such wonderful writers as Ryan O'Neill, Michelle Cahill, Matthew Condon (who is interviewed) and others I've yet to get to know better (but soon will!) Buy a copy or subscribe here. for Sonja ... … Continue reading 'Birds' – an extract
The Lifted Brow No. 4
9780980595406, 2009, Australia Several truly amazing, innovative and startlingly written stories are contained within the pages of The Lifted Brow No. 4. Unfortunately, there are so many stories in this issue that several ordinary, often pointless and quirk-for-the-sake-of-it ones have also snuck in, making it a bit of a treasure hunt read. The book also … Continue reading The Lifted Brow No. 4
Strike a pose
Some stuff in my week: * A photo shoot for Emerging Writers' Festival promo material with freelance/TV/ comedy writer Mia Timpano (I love this article of hers, have a look around her website while you're there); librarian/comedian Josh Earl; games writer (and writer in various other mediums) Paul Callaghan; and comedian Xavier Michelides. We had to 'pretend … Continue reading Strike a pose
Read and Seen: Watchmen
The second simultaneous book and film review by LiteraryMinded’s Angela Meyer and Celluloid Tongue’s Gerard Elson. Watchmen, Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons (1986, DC Comics, 9781401222666 - Aus, US) Angela says... Reading a graphic novel is an experience already half-way between literature and film. The opening 'frames' of Watchmen are like a series of shots from moving … Continue reading Read and Seen: Watchmen
Steven Amsterdam – a 'responsive' interview
Read the LiteraryMinded review of Steven Amsterdam's Things We Didn't See Coming, Sleepers Publishing, 9781740667012, 2009 (Aus, US) Prompts - LiteraryMinded. Responses - Steven Amsterdam. Beginnings I was inspired by a few loose pieces in the news, from life, the partisan splay of the 2004 election in the US, and my nervous mind, so I … Continue reading Steven Amsterdam – a 'responsive' interview
The silver set and the beautiful people
(Yes, I've changed the format of my titles, it's not a boo-boo). I attended the Summer Read Awards at the State Library yesterday afternoon (winner I am Melba, Ann Blainey), and was still surprised (but shouldn't be) to hear that most of the voters were of the silver set - and voted by snail mail … Continue reading The silver set and the beautiful people
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