I reviewed Charlotte Wood’s new novel Animal People for the Age and it looks like it has already found its way online, on the SMH website (not sure if it was in their print version as well). It is definitely one of the best Australian books I’ve read this year, and I do encourage you to [...]
Category Archives: Angela’s Publications
Review of The Meowmorphosis by Franz Kafka & Coleridge Cook in the Australian
July 11, 2011 – 8:43 pm
First, let me apologise for the recent lack of fully formed blog posts. From next week I may have a bit more time for that (staying in the country). I’m giving my paper in a couple of days in London and have been super busy with work, sightseeing and drinking too much. I promise I’ll [...]
The Invention of Paris: A History in Footsteps by Eric Hazan reviewed for Bookslut
July 5, 2011 – 9:49 pm
My review of Eric Hazan’s The Invention of Paris: A History in Footsteps (translated by David Fernbach) can be found in the July issue of Bookslut. I completed the review while in Paris a few weeks ago. It begins: ‘I’m sitting in an apartment in the twelfth arrondissement of Paris, and because I’ve finished Eric [...]
I wrote a winning haiku
May 19, 2011 – 9:00 am
I’m very excited to announce that a little haiku I wrote one morning is the winner of Australian Poetry’s haiPhone competition. It goes: Potential faces In steamy bathroom mirrors Residue of stars I’ve been invited to read it out as part of the Emerging Writers’ Festival on 1 June at the Poetry Cafe. G told me [...]
Verity La interview
May 15, 2011 – 8:58 pm
Alec Patric has asked me a few probing questions over at Verity La. If you’re interested in me as a writer (and person), or are curious about my work, you might want to check it out.
Brief review of The Kid on the Karaoke Stage in this month’s ABR
May 4, 2011 – 7:30 am
Just a quick note to say that I wrote an ‘in brief’ review of the excellent short story collection The Kid on the Karaoke Stage and Other Stories, edited by Georgia Richter (Aus), for this month’s Australian Book Review, out now in print and online. Here’s an extract: ‘While the stories in The Kid on the Karaoke [...]
Flash fiction piece ‘Trash’ up at Capsule
April 22, 2011 – 11:03 am
There’s a tiny little piece by me up at Capsule today – an online journal for bite-sized lit. It was inspired by a doco I saw on the early career of filmmaker John Waters. It begins: ‘In a cold Baltimore church basement, a vile film flickered over faces. Is it a she? they wondered at [...]
Social media marketing & bringing back the letter
February 24, 2011 – 7:30 am
Those two things might seem incompatible, but they are two things I have spoken about and written on lately… Recently I was a guest of the Australian Publishers Association at the Social Media Marketing seminars in Sydney and Melbourne. There were all sorts of speakers – writers, booksellers, publishers, a ‘guru’ and someone like me [...]
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