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, [...]
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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
‘Discomfort is sometimes what is most precious to me about great art’ – Christos Tsiolkas on The Slap
January 29, 2009 – 8:08 am
Note: This review/interview is uncensored and contains swearing.
The Slap is a novel that grabs you by your tender spots, squeezes, and doesn’t let go. It’s yelling, not at you, but in general frustration, at the edge of a cliff, at the end of the world. The end of the world might be Australia. An Australian [...]
I’d Like to Introduce You to Two of My Favourite Poets
January 19, 2009 – 8:05 am
Sean M Whelan’s and Nathan Curnow’s poems are very different in both style and theme, but come from much the same place.
Nathan captures the poignancy of childhood and the wonderment of parenthood, nostalgia and love in his chapbook No Other Life But This through tiny observations – an arm through a sleeve, a question, a coffee cup, [...]
Matilda’s Australian Litblog Snapshots
December 11, 2008 – 7:59 am
Established Australian litblog Matilda is doing a series of snapshots on Australian literary bloggers. Number seven was little ol’ me. Check out the interview.
And be sure to scroll down the main blog page to check out the others.
Perry Middlemiss has also just announced the death of Dorothy Porter, very sad news.
‘I Wanted to Talk About Being Completely Screwed Over by the Corporate Machine With a Smile on My Face’ – William Kostakis on Loathing Lola
October 7, 2008 – 7:56 pm
Loathing Lola, William Kostakis, Pan Macmillan, 2008, Australia, 9780330424165
You rewrote the whole book to be in first person (no mean feat!), in Courtney’s point of view. How did you come to this decision?
Okay, so originally, Loathing Lola was in the third person, with three leads, Courtney, Tim and Katie. Well, four leads, if you included me, because [...]
An Extraordinary Life – Interview with Jim Sharman on Blood & Tinsel
August 9, 2008 – 2:19 pm
Blood & Tinsel, Jim Sharman, August 2008, HB (Australia) Miegunyah Press, 9780522853773
This interview was first published in the June 2008 issue of BOOKSELLER+PUBLISHER magazine (c) 2008 Thorpe-Bowker (a division of RR Bowker LLC).
A doctor said to your parents when you were a child that you have the makings of a philosopher. You also mention your [...]
Dana Spiotta – Interview
July 6, 2008 – 11:46 am
See the LiteraryMinded review of Eat the Document.
What was the initial inspiration for Eat the Document?
I met Alger Hiss’ widow, Isabel Johnson. And I wondered about her marriage. If you were a spy, would you tell your wife? What would it be like to have a secret that lasts your whole life? How would the [...]
Punk Romance and Time Travel – an interview with Audrey Niffenegger
January 15, 2008 – 11:04 am
The Time Traveler’s Wife is a highly absorbing read with quirk, warmth and genuine romance. It follows the connecting stories of Henry, who suffers from spontaneous time travel, and Clare, his destined partner. LiteraryMinded caught up with Audrey Niffenegger somewhere in time and space to ask her a few questions about the novel…
The Time Traveler’s [...]
Matthew Condon – Interview
October 13, 2007 – 11:49 am
First published in the October 2007 issue of BOOKSELLER + PUBLISHER magazine (c) 2007 Thorpe-Bowker (a division of RR Bowker LLC) http://www.bookseller+publisher.com.au/
The Trout Opera sprang from an encounter with a Dalgety local, stories of the place, and much research. What were you most inspired by when you first visited the place?
I hadn’t been to the [...]
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