In Smoke in the Room, three characters end up in a share house in Sydney. Katie works on instinct and is weighted by an overwhelming empathy. Adam, an American, is grieving and needs to save money to get home. Graeme, an aid worker, has rid himself of possessions and simplified his existence. In this novel, [...]
Tag Archives: Depression
This cumulative kind of effect when you stop: an interview with Emily Maguire on Smoke in the Room, part one
November 3, 2009 – 12:23 pm
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You – Peter Cameron
March 2, 2009 – 7:51 am
Scribe, 2007 (Australia), 9781921372148
James is eighteen, works at his mother’s gallery in New York, and is trying to worm his way out of going to Brown in the fall. Why? He prefers the idea of buying a nice old house out in a ‘quiet’ state, and not being around other people his own age. James [...]
Express or Die? The Sensidictory Artist – an extract
February 25, 2009 – 7:54 am
Here is an extract from my piece in The Death Mook, being launched tomorrow night at Dante’s in Fitzroy, Vic. Buy it here. In the full piece I discuss Sylvia Plath, Susanna Kaysen, and Elizabeth Wurtzel (in that order). As I’ll be reading the Sylvia Plath section tomorrow night, I’m reproducing the introduction and the middle section [...]
Tabitha Suzuma – Interview
July 10, 2007 – 8:57 am
I recently reviewed Tabitha Suzuma’s young adult novel A Note of Madness for the journal Viewpoint (see book reviews on the left). I thought I would ask Tabitha a few questions about the themes of depression in the novel and her own journey as a writer. Enjoy.
What inspired you to make the characters music students [...]
A Note of Madness – Tabitha Suzuma
June 27, 2007 – 6:28 pm
2006, Random House, 978009948731
First published in Viewpoint, vol. 15, no. 2, Winter 2007
Flynn attends the Royal College of Music in London. He has a close relationship with his friends Harry and Jennah. His Professors believe strongly in his potential. So why is he beginning to doubt it? Flynn starts ‘going underground’, taking to his bed [...]
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