9780980374667
September 2009 (Australia)
Affirm Press
If you didn’t already know that Mic Looby was once a Lonely Planet writer and editor, it’s not difficult to guess, reading his debut novel, Paradise Updated. In it, the satirically named ‘SmallWorld’ publishers dominate the guidebook industry and the bloke who made them what they are today, legendary Robert Rind, expert on [...]
Tag Archives: small press
Guest review: Elena Gomez on Mic Looby’s Paradise Updated
October 13, 2009 – 7:57 am
Give Me Some Lip
November 12, 2008 – 7:50 am
Lip Issue 16 has arrived in my mailbox. In this issue I have a piece titled ‘Virtual Projections: How We Construct Ourselves Online’. As it’s a magazine for young women, I spoke to girls and women in virtual environments – MySpace and Facebook – but its also about my own experiences in those spaces and through [...]
Uncorrected Proof – Louisiana Alba
November 7, 2008 – 7:54 am
ElephantEars Press, 9780955867606, 2008 (UK)
Can something be playfully and overtly postmodern and still be readable – driving you through a compelling plot? Louisiana Alba proves it can be done. Uncorrected Proof is a postmodern novel that entertainingly riffs on form, style, character, tense, person – but with an overall thriller/quest type plot appropriation, it folds [...]
Late Connections – Aileen La Tourette
September 16, 2008 – 7:20 pm
2008, Ilura Press, 978921325052
It’s a shame to read a story that feels as though it has been wrestled into the wrong medium. Aileen La Tourette’s Late Connections might have made a good dramatic play with its style, overt exposition, and historical setting. We begin in Paris, where seamstress Annie Doulard works on the dress of [...]
Harvest #1 and Voiceworks #73: Carnivale – Journal Review
July 13, 2008 – 1:02 pm
A loud established journal and a studious newbie are both aesthetically pleasing and intellectually stimulating. Voiceworks #73 is themed Carnivale and even more-so than previous issues revels in quality quirk as well as showcasing the colourful talents and opinions of Australian youth.
In contrast to the oft blunt-ended pieces in Voiceworks, the first issue of Harvest [...]
Voiceworks #69 ‘Identikit’ – A Responsive Review
July 25, 2007 – 5:27 pm
Depending on which side you open it from (a magazine with an identity crisis?) you will not be disappointed with the latest issue of Voiceworks, an Australian magazine that showcases the creative talent of under 25s. It is non-profit, literary, and intellectual without being inaccessible. ‘We are the youth and we are not apathetic’, it [...]
Voiceworks #69 ‘Identikit’ – A Responsive Review
July 25, 2007 – 5:27 pm
Depending on which side you open it from (a magazine with an identity crisis?) you will not be disappointed with the latest issue of Voiceworks, an Australian magazine that showcases the creative talent of under 25s. It is non-profit, literary, and intellectual without being inaccessible. ‘We are the youth and we are not apathetic’, it [...]
Voiceworks #69 ‘Identikit’ – A Responsive Review
July 25, 2007 – 5:27 pm
Depending on which side you open it from (a magazine with an identity crisis?) you will not be disappointed with the latest issue of Voiceworks, an Australian magazine that showcases the creative talent of under 25s. It is non-profit, literary, and intellectual without being inaccessible. ‘We are the youth and we are not apathetic’, it [...]
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