9780702237348
UQP
September 2009 (Australia)
Review by Lorelei Vashti
When I was first offered this book to review I thought: Well, Ms Meyer, it seems that not only are you literary-minded but you’re also literally minded, because what you have given me here is a book about a Brisbane girl returning home to her family. Which, Angela—as you very [...]
Tag Archives: memoir
Guest review: Lorelei Vashti on Linda Neil’s Learning How to Breathe
October 22, 2009 – 7:55 am
The real possibility of joy: an interview with Josephine Emery
August 18, 2009 – 8:03 am
Josephine Emery’s The Real Possibility of Joy: A Personal Journey From Man to Woman is released in September from Pier 9. It’s a compelling, poignant, fascinating, honest memoir. And as a writer, screenwriter and former director of the literature board at the Australia Council for the Arts, Josephine Emery really knows how to write. I reviewed [...]
Love, sex and intimacy with Krissy Kneen, author of Affection (a LiteraryMinded ‘responsive’ interview)
August 3, 2009 – 8:12 am
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 [...]
Guest review: Sam Cooney on Mark Mordue’s Dastgah
July 21, 2009 – 8:05 am
Dastgah, Mark Mordue
Allen & Unwin (2001, Australia).
Also published overseas.
Review by Sam Cooney.
Dastgah is an account of Australian writer, journalist and editor Mark Mordue’s first trip overseas: a one-year journey through the regions of India, Nepal, the United Kingdom, Turkey and Iran, and the cities of Paris and New York. The blurb calls it ‘a refined [...]
Mischa Merz on Bruising: a Boxer’s Story
July 8, 2009 – 8:11 am
In Bruising, passionate boxer Mischa Merz draws you into her experiences of a sweaty, oft-bloody, myth- and history-loaded, predominantly masculine but ever-progressing sport. I first came across Mischa’s work in the extract of this book published in Overland. It had been my favourite piece in the issue, and when Mischa heard, she sent me a [...]
Making sense of the surrounding chaos: Sarah Manguso on The Two Kinds of Decay
June 4, 2009 – 7:51 am
Not only was Sarah Manguso’s body completely weakened by a rare neurological disease (where the antibodies in her own blood would poison her), but she dealt with other levels of illness, such as the effect of strong drugs she had to take, and deep depression. But everything I tried to write about The Two Kinds [...]
Other People’s Favourite Books – Rosalie Skinner on Douglas Adams’ Last Chance to See
December 29, 2008 – 11:10 am
Tell us a little about yourself and what you do.
Hi, I’m Rosalie and I write speculative fiction. Writing is a passion that followed hot on the heels of reading avidly for too many years too count. For twenty years, I painted portraits and taught other artists how to approach painting portraits in oils, after the [...]
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