Part One of this interview can be found here.
Pictured: Emily Maguire and I before the Sleepers Salon in October.
I ask Maguire about the setting. Is it pertinent for this story to be set in Sydney? She says it probably could have been a few cities, but ‘western Sydney is – the cliché is ‘melting pot’, [...]
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This cumulative kind of effect when you stop: an interview with Emily Maguire on Smoke in the Room, part two
November 5, 2009 – 7:53 am
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
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, [...]
Princesses & Pornstars – Emily Maguire
February 11, 2009 – 8:03 am
Text, 2008 (Australia) 9781921351310
Emily Maguire’s Princesses & Pornstars is a call to arms. It’s a highly intelligent, entertaining, and sometimes endearingly awkward rant. To have a feminist stance is not just to talk about women, Maguire argues, it’s to talk about equality for all. It’s to talk about the end of prejudice. It’s about fairness. Sometimes [...]
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Sunday Driver! *Shakes Fist*
Hello lovelies, not long now until Christmas! I get to go for a wonderful break (which will still include reading and blogging, don’t worry) in the land of the Big Banana, Coffs Harbour. Can’t wait to see my sister, my folks, my Nanna, and bestie Tania. Lots of beach time, and possibly a ‘prop’ party [...]