Tag Archives: Picador

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

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’, [...]

Mark Twain made ‘em laugh: an edited extract from Susannah Fullerton’s Brief Encounters: Literary Travellers in Australia

The following is an edited extract from Brief Encounters: Literary Travellers in Australia by Susannah Fullerton.
Published by Picador Australia, June 2009.
Mark Twain came to Australia billed as ‘the funniest man in the world’ and Australians loved his dry humour and stories…
Their expectation was by now at fever pitch, their bodies perspiring from excitement and heat, [...]