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1001 Australian Nights: Gerard Elson interviews Dave Graney, part two

April 12, 2011 – 7:15 am

1001 Australian Nights Dave Graney 9780980790436, Affirm Press (Aus) by Gerard Elson Read part one here. Have you tried your hand at prose fiction? Would you ever be interested? I’d prefer to write fiction than something like 1001 Australian Nights. I’m having the heebs a bit with this book coming out and people reading it! [...]

By Angela Meyer | Posted in Interviews + Profiles, Other People's Words | Also tagged 1001 Australian Nights, ABC, Affirm Press, Aussie rock, Australian books, Australian music, Australian music scene, Australian rock memoirs, Australian writers, authenticity, Beezlebub, Dave Graney, Gerard Elson, interviews, Kuchar brothers, Leviathan, London, Lovecraft, Melbourne Music Scene, memoir, music business, performaing, performance, Robert Crumb, rock 'n' roll, rock memoirs, rock music, St Kilda, the devil, tour diaries | Comments (3)

1001 Australian Nights: Gerard Elson interviews Dave Graney, part one

April 11, 2011 – 7:15 am

1001 Australian Nights Dave Graney 9780980790436, Affirm Press (Aus) by Gerard Elson Dave Graney likes his coffee weak and his public spaces swarming. So we meet at Starbucks. It’s not exactly rock ‘n’ roll, but then that’s Graney: never one to play the scummy, hard-worn rock pariah (thank god). He arrives early and I’m embarrassed [...]

By Angela Meyer | Posted in Interviews + Profiles, Other People's Words | Also tagged 1001 Australian Nights, Affirm Press, Aussie rock, Australian books, Australian rock memoirs, Australian writers, authenticity, Beezlebub, Dave Graney, Gerard Elson, interviews, Kuchar brothers, Leviathan, London, Lovecraft, Melbourne Music Scene, music business, performaing, performance, Robert Crumb, rock 'n' roll, rock memoirs, rock music, St Kilda, the devil, tour diaries | Comments (4)

Hide and seek: Melbourne

February 14, 2011 – 11:56 am

On Saturday afternoon G & I traversed the streets, alleys and stairwells of Melbourne for the launch of the Hide & Seek Melbourne books Feeling Peckish, Night Owl, Treasure Trove and Hit the Streets. The series (after the popular, original Hide and Seek: Melbourne book) take a look at some of the city’s hidden, cool and [...]

By Angela Meyer | Posted in Commentary, Reviews + Analyses | Also tagged Buttonmania, buttons, cannoli melbourne, city guides Melbourne, competition, Dansk restaurant, Design Dispensary, ethical eats, Explore Australia, fashion Melbourne, Feeling Peckish, full-moon gatherings Melbourne, good design Melbourne, hidden places Melbourne, Hide & Seek Melbourne, Hide and Seek Melbourne, Hit the Streets, Kimono House, magic workshops, Manchester Lane Melbourne, medium, Neill Martin, Nicholas Building, Night Owl, Nordic food Melbourne, psychic, psychometrist, shoe shine Melbourne, Spellbox, STREAT, streets of Melbourne, Treasure Trove, walking Melbourne, Zoologie | Comments (10)

Guest review: Elizabeth Bryer on Wayne Macauley’s Other Stories

December 2, 2010 – 10:59 am

Black Pepper November 2010 9781876044664 (Aus) Reviewed by Elizabeth Bryer Other Stories brings together Melbourne-based Wayne Macauley’s output over the past decade and counting. The collection is filled with ‘other’ stories—tales that are other, or outside the mainstream, in a double sense. They are other in subject, given that they are stories that trace the [...]

By Angela Meyer | Posted in Reviews + Analyses | Also tagged Australian authors, Australian literature, Black Pepper, Elizabeth Bryer, guest review, Kafkaesque, Man and Tree, Other Stories, short stories, small press, trams, Wayne Macauley | Comments (2)

The Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2010

September 29, 2010 – 6:50 pm

I attended the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards last night. I drank a lot of red wine, Casey Bennetto sang, awards were given, people got emotional, Peter Temple was hilarious, there was a dessert buffet, and Penguin CEO Gabrielle Coyne and I had a conversation about Michael Jackson. The Wheeler Centre, administering the awards for the first [...]

By Angela Meyer | Posted in Commentary | Also tagged 2010, Brenda Walker, Casey Bennetto, Four Corners, Kate Howarth, Laurie Steed, literary awards, Peter Temple, Readings Foundation, Sophie Black, Tom Holloway, Toni Jordan, vic prem's, Victorian Premir's Literary Awards, VPLA, Wheeler Centre, Who Killed Mr Ward, wine | Comments (2)

Writers for Burma, Wheeler Centre Program Three & other upcoming events

September 8, 2010 – 5:42 pm

There are many events on the Melbourne literary calendar and mostly I’ll track what looks interesting on Twitter, but there are a few coming up I’d like to devote a bit more space to… On October 3 is Writers for Burma, at the Bella Union Bar, Trades Hall, Carlton, from 2:30pm. MC and organiser Paul Mitchell [...]

By Angela Meyer | Posted in Commentary | Also tagged events, MWF 2010, NYWF, Rocket Clock, UWRF, Wheeler Centre, Write Around the Murray, Writers for Burma | Comments (1)

Like, embrace the pain: the Bret Easton Ellis interview (part 1)

August 18, 2010 – 7:49 pm

Pictured: Carrie, Samantha, Carrie Let’s begin at the end. After Kathy Charles and I finished our interview with the very engaging Bret Easton Ellis, we sat with his publicist over a couple of glasses of Chandon, waiting for Ellis to wrap-up with our friend Robbie Coleman. Robbie emerged, white-faced and swearing, revealing that the interviewee had turned interviewer [...]

By Angela Meyer | Posted in Interviews + Profiles | Also tagged American authors, American literature, American Psycho, BEE, Bret Easton Ellis, Bret Easton Ellis in Australia, Byron Bay Writers' Festival, control, cruelty, drafting, emotional writing, fiction, Glamorama, Imperial Bedrooms, Kathy Charles, LA, LA novels, Less Than Zero, letting go, Los Angeles, Lunar Park, Matthew Reilly, metaphors, noir, Porcupine Tree, Raymond Chandler, Sex and the City, The Informers, The National, The Rules of Attraction, writing, writing process | Comments (4)

Speaking of…

February 7, 2010 – 6:05 pm

The literary-minded in Melbourne need never be bored. The Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas will begin filling our lunch breaks and evenings this month. Here’s the program for the first three months. I’ll be getting along to see Helen Garner, and I love the idea of the Lunchbox/Soapbox sessions which allow you to [...]

By Angela Meyer | Posted in Commentary | Also tagged 2010, apologies, Bookseller+Publisher, David Bowie, future of reading, iPhone app, rock, Wheeler Centre | Comments (5)

In the end we all fade to black: a ‘responsive’ interview with Kathy Charles, author of Hollywood Ending

November 10, 2009 – 7:45 am

Kathy Charles’ debut novel Hollywood Ending was recently released in Australia by Text Publishing (John Belushi Is Dead, MTV Books, US). In my review for the October issue of Australian Book Review I said: ‘Kathy Charles creates a world both familiar and strange … Despite being highly, if darkly, entertaining, the book hints at deeper issues, such [...]

By Angela Meyer | Posted in Interviews + Profiles, Other People's Words | Also tagged actors, actresses, Australian authors, Bel Air, cataloguing, celebrity, Chris Farley, cinema, classifying, Courtney Love, dark tourism, David Bowie, death, death hags, fallen stars, fame, famous, glamour, golden age, history, Hollywood, Hollywood Ending, Hollywood sign, Janis Joplin, jim morrison, Jimi Hendrix, John Belushi, John Lennon, Kathy Charles, Kurt Cobain, LA, movies, MTV Publishing, nostalgia, numerology, paparazzi, Paris Hilton, RKO, Text | Comments (4)

It begins! Melbourne Writers Festival 2009 diary part one: champagne, the city, Mieville’s guns, Amsterdam’s awards and Schlink’s guilt

August 22, 2009 – 9:53 am

Thursday 20/8 The elevator ride up to the Text Publishing par-tay on Thursday evening was devastatingly long (I’m a semi-claustrophobe, to add to my other semi-disorders). I met up with Kathy Charles beforehand (a Text author) to discuss my launching of her book, Hollywood Ending. The champagne flowed, the conversations were half-chewed like the piece [...]

By Angela Meyer | Posted in Commentary | Also tagged AGE Book fo the Year Awards 2009, Andrea James, Barry Dickins, Bernhard Schlink, China Mieville, Christos Tsiolkas, ereaders, future of fiction, Guilt About the Past, Kerry Greenwood, Melbourne Writers Festival 2009, MWF, MWF 2009, MWF diary, parties, Steve Grimwade, Steven Amsterdam, the city, The Reader | Comments (10)