Here is an extract from my piece in The Death Mook, being launched tomorrow night at Dante’s in Fitzroy, Vic. Buy it here. In the full piece I discuss Sylvia Plath, Susanna Kaysen, and Elizabeth Wurtzel (in that order). As I’ll be reading the Sylvia Plath section tomorrow night, I’m reproducing the introduction and the middle section [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2009
Literary Space – Michael Gross
February 23, 2009 – 7:47 am
Michael Gross, UK science writer and author of The Birds, the Bees and the Platypuses and many others, says: This is the bottom end of a converted garage at the back of our garden, which I once used exclusively as my office, but three years ago my teenage daughter moved into the front part of the [...]
I’ve Joined the Twits, the Dead (or Undead) and More Festivals!
February 21, 2009 – 5:53 pm
I’m spending my Saturday making bookmarks for the blog to give out at the Format Festival next month (as it’s a DIY festival, I thought crafty-collage-style bookmarks would be apt). They’ll be on different colour cardboards with words, little images I like, and gel-pen artwork! It’s so much fun – I haven’t done craft for [...]
Read and Seen: Revolutionary Road
February 17, 2009 – 10:49 pm
The first in a series of simultaneous book and film reviews by LiteraryMinded‘s Angela Meyer and Celluloid Tongue‘s Gerard Elson. Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates (orig. 1961, several editions: Aus, US) Angela says… Revolutionary Road opens with a moody series of observances and a sense of foreboding – 1955, Western Connecticut, settled yet restless characters, cars too [...]
Love, Literature and Evolution – Writers at the Convent
February 16, 2009 – 8:12 am
On Saturday the 14th I attended a couple of sessions at Writers at the Convent, a mini writers’ festival run by Reader’s Feast Bookstore, at the gorgeous Abbotsford Convent. Unfortunately, the ‘Australian Fiction’ session with Peter Goldsworthy, Robert Drewe, and Steven Carroll was cancelled, but I skipped the other big sessions and decided to spend [...]
I Do it For Love
February 14, 2009 – 8:52 pm
Let me start out by saying I have a terrible headache, but I blog because I love you. Happy Valentines Day, readers. I hope you didn’t get too commercial. I hope you wrote a heartfelt poem or song, no matter how shoddy. I spent the day with Charles Darwin, but more on that later in [...]
Princesses & Pornstars by Emily Maguire
February 11, 2009 – 8:03 am
Text, 2008 (Australia) 9781921351310 Update: now also available in a YA edition Your Skirt’s Too Short: Sex, Power, Choice Emily Maguire’s Princesses & Pornstars is a call to arms. It’s a highly intelligent, entertaining, and sometimes endearingly awkward rant. To have a feminist stance is not just to talk about women, Maguire argues, it’s to talk [...]
Other People’s Favourite Books – Troy Martin on Tim Winton’s Cloudstreet
February 9, 2009 – 7:55 am
Tell us a little about yourself and what you do. Hi, I’m Troy, a high school English teacher, frustrated writer, all round book nerd. Being an ‘English’ teacher means more than grammar or literacy, but literature, blogs, picture books, websites, cultural studies and much more… I have been teaching in the NSW public education system [...]
Round ‘em Up
February 7, 2009 – 8:22 pm
A wealth of literary-minded titbits (yes, that is the proper Australian spelling) to share with you this week: * Only one week until Writers at the Convent. I don’t have a lot of dough at the moment (read: broke) but I can’t miss the Australian Fiction session at 8pm on the Saturday. It’ll be my [...]
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Good-weekend lit-lovelies, Check out the crowd in the reading room! You can view some more pictures from The Death Mook launch here. This was absolutely the highlight of my week. I had to have a few wines before reading to deal with the nerves, damn them, and because there was such a big crowd! Dion and Lisa [...]