Tag Archives: loneliness

This cumulative kind of effect when you stop: an interview with Emily Maguire on Smoke in the Room, part one

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, [...]

Love, sex and intimacy with Krissy Kneen, author of Affection (a LiteraryMinded ‘responsive’ interview)

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  [...]

Numbers, Solitude, Cinnamon Cookies + New Voices

According to my dashboard, this is my 200th post since I started this blog in May 2007. And you know what? In the past couple of years through this blog, my novel manuscripts, my short stories and thesis, and my work, I’m quite sure I have written over a million words. I mean, I probably [...]

From the LiteraryMinded inbox…

I get emails quite often from people who read LM, usually a few lines saying they enjoy the blog, or letting me know about an event coming up, or a book I might be interested in. But this is by far the best ’fan’ email I have gotten, a story in itself. Michael said I could use his [...]