Josephine Emery’s The Real Possibility of Joy: A Personal Journey From Man to Woman is released in September from Pier 9. It’s a compelling, poignant, fascinating, honest memoir. And as a writer, screenwriter and former director of the literature board at the Australia Council for the Arts, Josephine Emery really knows how to write. I reviewed [...]
Category Archives: Interviews + Profiles
Queensland Poetry Festival special: A.F. Harrold
August 6, 2009 – 7:53 am
The Queensland Poetry Festival runs from 21 to 23 August. Graham Nunn has helped me to select three poets to feature on LiteraryMinded in the weeks leading up to the festival. A.F. Harrold is number one. Enjoy!
A.F. Harrold is an English poet and performer who does things with words that aren’t always normal. Although, that [...]
Love, sex and intimacy with Krissy Kneen, author of Affection (a LiteraryMinded ‘responsive’ interview)
August 3, 2009 – 8:12 am
Affection: A Memoir of Love, Sex and Intimacy
Text Publishing
9781921520617
August (Australia)
Prompts: LiteraryMinded
Responses: Krissy Kneen
Things that are fast/things that are slow
Motorcycles. Rollercoaster. Pick ups. Orgasms. All too fast. Slow would be nice. Slow is the ideal, something to aspire to. It all ends too quickly. Everything. And the people who have died. People of my gene pool [...]
Progressive writers
July 23, 2009 – 7:29 am
I’d like to introduce you to some of the writers who also participated in the Overland Masterclass for Progressive Writers, a week-and-a-half ago. Simonne and Maxine have written summaries of the workshop, if you want to know what it was all about. The dynamics were interesting - the ‘progressive’ themes varied greatly, and were executed differently [...]
Mischa Merz on Bruising: a Boxer’s Story
July 8, 2009 – 8:11 am
In Bruising, passionate boxer Mischa Merz draws you into her experiences of a sweaty, oft-bloody, myth- and history-loaded, predominantly masculine but ever-progressing sport. I first came across Mischa’s work in the extract of this book published in Overland. It had been my favourite piece in the issue, and when Mischa heard, she sent me a [...]
Making sense of the surrounding chaos: Sarah Manguso on The Two Kinds of Decay
June 4, 2009 – 7:51 am
Not only was Sarah Manguso’s body completely weakened by a rare neurological disease (where the antibodies in her own blood would poison her), but she dealt with other levels of illness, such as the effect of strong drugs she had to take, and deep depression. But everything I tried to write about The Two Kinds [...]
Christos Tsiolkas + Nam Le: award winners
May 22, 2009 – 7:52 am
In honour of the recent awards won by two authors I admire very much, I thought we could revisit my interviews with them. First of all, which awards were these?
Christos Tsiolkas won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book, awarded at the Auckland Writers’ and Readers’ Festival last week, for The Slap. See the full details here. I [...]
Sexy romance + serious issues: Toni Jordan on Addition
May 20, 2009 – 7:49 am
Addition (Text Publishing, Australia) is a sexy, smart, funny and totally refreshing read. It’s the story of numerical-obsessive Grace, and her unique navigation of life. When Grace meets Seamus, her lifestyle comes into question – the counting, the obsession with dead mathematician Nicola Tesla, the careful structures of her daily life. Can she fall messily [...]
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Queensland Poetry Festival special: Hinemoana Baker
The Queensland Poetry Festival runs from 21 to 23 August. Graham Nunn has helped me to select three poets to feature on LiteraryMinded in the weeks leading up to the festival. Hinemoana Baker is number two. Revisit number one, A.F. Harrold, if you like. Enjoy!
Arts Queensland Poet in Residence 2009 Hinemoana Baker’s writings have featured [...]