9780980374667
September 2009 (Australia)
Affirm Press
If you didn’t already know that Mic Looby was once a Lonely Planet writer and editor, it’s not difficult to guess, reading his debut novel, Paradise Updated. In it, the satirically named ‘SmallWorld’ publishers dominate the guidebook industry and the bloke who made them what they are today, legendary Robert Rind, expert on [...]
Tag Archives: Australian writers
Guest review: Elena Gomez on Mic Looby’s Paradise Updated
October 13, 2009 – 7:57 am
The real possibility of joy: an interview with Josephine Emery
August 18, 2009 – 8:03 am
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 [...]
Kate Grenville’s Dark Places
July 28, 2009 – 7:59 am
A LiteraryMinded review of an Australian classic.
Dark Places
Kate Grenville
(Macmillan 1994 + Text Publishing 2008)
Dark Places charts the life of a pitiful, self-absorbed and knowingly empty man, Albion Gidley Singer. From a young age he attempts to fill a void that exists within him – a void associated with his lack of knowledge of the feminine. He [...]
Guest review: Sam Cooney on Mark Mordue’s Dastgah
July 21, 2009 – 8:05 am
Dastgah, Mark Mordue
Allen & Unwin (2001, Australia).
Also published overseas.
Review by Sam Cooney.
Dastgah is an account of Australian writer, journalist and editor Mark Mordue’s first trip overseas: a one-year journey through the regions of India, Nepal, the United Kingdom, Turkey and Iran, and the cities of Paris and New York. The blurb calls it ‘a refined [...]
Two Hamlets
December 2, 2008 – 7:43 am
Hamlet: A Novel, John Marsden, Text, 9781921351471, 2008 (Australia) + Hamlet(film), directed by Kenneth Branagh, 1996.
John Marsden has always had a distinct ability to grasp and express adolescent experience. His Hamlet: a Novel is highly accessible for an audience familiar with heightened perceptions of desire, deception, unfairness, traps, loneliness, defiance, and existential angst.
If you are familiar with the play [...]
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One to watch: Jon Bauer
We all know Miss LiteraryMinded likes to read. Sometimes I come across writers in journals, anthologies and online that I know I’ll continue to watch. Every now and then I’ll throw them a few open-ended questions about their writing and themselves, in order to introduce them to you.
Jon Bauer
www.jonbauerwriter.com
On process…
There are so many layers to the [...]