An Extraordinary Life – Interview with Jim Sharman on Blood & Tinsel
Blood & Tinsel, Jim Sharman, August 2008, HB (Australia) Miegunyah Press, 9780522853773 (Aus, US) This interview was first published in the June 2008 issue of BOOKSELLER+PUBLISHER magazine (c) 2008...
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Loathing Lola, William Kostakis, Pan Macmillan, 2008, Australia, 9780330424165 You rewrote the whole book to be in first person (no mean feat!), in Courtney’s point of view. How did you come to this...
View ArticleWalking The White Road with Tania Hershman – Salt Publishing virtual book tour
9781844714759, Salt Publishing, 2008 (Aus, US/Kindle) Tania Hershman takes you on a series of short imaginative adventures in The White Road. Some stories are casual, tough, or laid-back, many are...
View ArticleMatilda's Australian Litblog Snapshots
Established Australian litblog Matilda is doing a series of snapshots on Australian literary bloggers. Number seven was little ol’ me. Check out the interview. And be sure to scroll down the main blog...
View ArticleI'd Like to Introduce You to Two of My Favourite Poets
Sean M Whelan, photo by Sudeep Lingamneni Sean M Whelan’s and Nathan Curnow’s poems are very different in both style and theme, but come from much the same place. Nathan captures the poignancy of...
View Article‘Discomfort is sometimes what is most precious to me about great art’–...
Note: This review/interview is uncensored and contains swearing. The Slap (Aus, US) is a novel that grabs you by your tender spots, squeezes, and doesn’t let go. Set in contemporary Melbourne and its...
View ArticleThis cumulative kind of effect when you stop: an interview with Emily Maguire...
In Smoke in the Room (Aus), three characters end up in a share house in Sydney. Katie works on instinct and is weighted by an overwhelming empathy. Adam, an American, is grieving and needs to save...
View ArticleMeeting Alex Miller part one: on the origins of a contemporary story
Recently I interviewed Alex Miller about his new novel Lovesong (Aus, US) for Readings Monthly. As many of you know, Miller is not only one of Australia’s finest authors, but he’s one of my personal...
View ArticleBlack Postcards: Kent MacCarter interviews Dean Wareham (part one)
By Kent MacCarter Dean Wareham – musician, author, actor and a co-inventor of the ‘shoegaze’ aesthetic – is coming home to Australia. Sort of. This month, he, his partner Britta Phillips, and band will...
View ArticleBlack Postcards: Kent MacCarter interviews Dean Wareham (part two)
Part one of this interview can be found here. How do you feel about TS Eliot’s (in)famous quip, ‘Good poets borrow, great poets steal’? I was having a hard time figuring out what TS Eliot meant here –...
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