Point Omega Don DeLillo Picador, 2010, 9780330512381 (Aus, US/Kindle) I’ve been ‘doing’ a few American writers of late. Loved my first encounter with Michael Chabon, in A Model World – he’s a master of beginnings and endings in those short gems – and will follow-up someday with The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2010
Provoking, presenting, plays, programs and the possessed
April 27, 2010 – 10:49 am
I fear with my opinion piece in Crikey the other day I may have misconstrued or misrepresented the words of one of my favourite authors, and someone I respect very much, Alex Miller. I think I raised some valid points (and I am certainly not the only one to have written on literary awards in [...]
Miles Franklin Award shortlist, 2010
April 23, 2010 – 2:31 pm
Guten Tag. I’ve a piece in today’s Crikey newsletter: Miles Franklin Award: Alex Miller Puts in the Boot. It begins: ‘Are there too many literary awards in Australia, and is our oldest one “slipping away”? If an Australian literary award was provided increased funding and focus, would the Miles Franklin be the most relevant?’ You [...]
Guest post: Splinters and Ore, by JJ DeCeglie
April 21, 2010 – 8:34 am
I adhere to old Henry Miller and I quote: I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it: we must search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in it, anything that is capable of resuscitating the body and soul. [...]
Show me your spines (some books in the ‘tower of hope’)
April 17, 2010 – 12:10 pm
Books I’ve been sent or given in the past few weeks: And then I still haven’t gotten to: or: (the Roald Dahl books I plan to re-read). And these are really only the fairly recent additions to the ‘tower of hope’. Currently reading: …and a couple of others on my bedside table. You can see how hard [...]
On writing, blogging and social media: an interview from Victorian Writer
April 14, 2010 – 11:16 am
After reading A.S. Patric’s thoughts on blogging, in an interview he did for Nigel Featherstone at the Canberra Times, I thought I’d reprint a recent interview I did for Victorian Writer, the Victorian Writers’ Centre magazine, to add to the conversation. Enjoy! And please share your thoughts in the comments, or via the Facebook fan page, Twitter, your own blogs, [...]
Guest review: Elena Gomez on Kill Your Darlings Issue One
April 12, 2010 – 10:24 am
I was really excited when Ange asked me to review the very first issue of new literary journal Kill Your Darlings, created by some hip Melbourne literary-types, edited by Affirm Press’s Rebecca Starford. Then I read its opening article: Gideon Haigh’s scathing piece on the Australian book review landscape. I got a little stage fright [...]
Raj Patel: Messiah? Or Sydney Writers Festival guest…?
April 6, 2010 – 11:26 am
So you may have heard about author Raj Patel being deemed a Messiah by a religious group after appearing on The Colbert Report recently. Well I have heard more exciting rumours, that Patel – the author of The Value of Nothing - will be gracing our shores at Sydney Writers Festival this year. The program for the [...]
Frustration/inspiration
April 2, 2010 – 11:47 am
Frustration and inspiration. Sometimes one even bleeds into the other. I wrote a novel manuscript in a time of frustration, the first draft in just 12 weeks, as I saw it as a kind of ‘golden ticket’, a way through and out of my situation. Though it wasn’t (a way out) in the end - the [...]
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