Monthly Archives: June 2010

Vladimir Nabokov’s Mary

June 26, 2010 – 1:33 pm

Mary Vladimir Nabokov (translated from the Russian by Michael Glenny, in collaboration with Nabokov) Penguin Great Loves series (Aus, US) 9780141032900 (First published under pen name V Sirin in 1926.) Love is part attraction, part emotion and much imagination. In Mary, Vladimir Nabokov’s first novel, a Russian man in Berlin, Ganin, recounts his one passionate love affair, [...]

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Blogging officially for Melbourne Writers Festival 2010

June 23, 2010 – 4:42 pm

I’ve been asked to join last year’s wonderful bloggers, Estelle and Simon (who has the best moustache), as a blogger for this year’s Melbourne Writers Festival, which runs from the 27th of August to the 5th of September. As I always write a bunch on the festival anyway, I’m chuffed to be invited to do [...]

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Both ways is the only way she wants it: an interview with Maile Meloy

June 16, 2010 – 2:29 pm

As the title indicates, Both Ways is the Only Way I Want it (Text, May 2010 in Aus, Riverhead US), Maile Meloy’s engaging collection of stories, is about the fear, desire, pleasure, confusion and complications of wanting it both ways and sometimes having it so. It’s like Guido’s dilemma in Fellini’s 8 1/2 – he wants [...]

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The traveller, and her crushes

June 14, 2010 – 7:39 pm

It’s an excuse kind of post, but I’ve been away and fluey and thinking of the book and stuff and only blogged once last week (ARGH). Sorry. Still working on the Colm Toibin interview, an interview with Maile Meloy, a review or two, and lining up some more guest reviews. I also just reviewed Chris [...]

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What I’m learning about my writing process

June 9, 2010 – 11:44 am

Thanks to the wonderful Victorian Writers’ Centre, I received a fellowship which allows me three months in a studio in Glenfern, St Kilda – a gorgeous heritage house. Seventy percent of my Doctor of Creative Arts will be fiction, and so - I have begun the novel. As this is the first time since I was [...]

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Guest review: Sam Cooney on I Can See My House From Here: UTS Writers’ Anthology 2010

June 4, 2010 – 1:55 pm

I Can See My House From Here: UTS Writers’ Anthology 2010 Reviewed by Sam Cooney University anthologies are often pedestrian and insular. Even worse, at times they smack of desperation – you can almost wring it from the pages like water from hair. ‘Here is my story,’ each writer seems to say. ‘This is what [...]

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Dog’s Tails: storytelling nights at Dog’s Bar, St Kilda

June 1, 2010 – 5:28 pm

It’s a Thursday. Gand I put on our coats and walk briskly down Acland Street, St Kilda, to the warm, busy, art-filled Dog’s Bar for the weekly storytelling event ‘Dog’s Tails’. It’s about 7:30 and we order a glass of the Dog’s Shiraz. Curators of the storytelling event, Chris Flynn and Josephine Rowe, are there already, eating [...]

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