Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
Wells Tower
Granta, 2009
9781847080486
Words: Christopher Currie and Wells Tower
Image: Chris Somerville
Back in March, during one of my reverential trawls through my RSS feeds, I began hearing about an American writer, Wells Tower, whose short story collection Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned was beginning to garner some very warm praise. After reading Edmund White’s review [...]
Tag Archives: writing
Melbourne launch of the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature
August 8, 2009 – 2:43 pm
The Red Rotunda at the Cowen Gallery at the State Library of Victoria is filled with silver-haired literary giants, and a young woman enters, sweaty and carrying two bags (she has walked from work). She sees a couple of familiar faces but is too intimidated to talk to them. She clasps a glass of champagne and [...]
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 [...]
Loco
April 12, 2009 – 5:13 pm
Hey lit-sexies,
a brief round-up this weekend, because, as you know from the previous post I’m up to my neck in my own words (up to my forehead, really, being a bit suffocated by them). I’m half-way through the rewrite, and it’s going alright, but to be completely, searingly honest – it’s really, really hard and [...]
So what’s happening with Smoke & Dancing?
April 10, 2009 – 5:28 pm
I have been asked a few times lately what’s happening with this novel manuscript, as people know I’m also working on a new one. Well lit-lovelies, here’s the juice.
I’m restructuring, rewriting, adding, subtracting, overhauling Smoke & Dancing this long weekend.
This is the story so far, in point form (because my brain is mush after the first day’s work!)
* [...]
Express or Die? The Sensidictory Artist – an extract
February 25, 2009 – 7:54 am
Here is an extract from my piece in The Death Mook, being launched tomorrow night at Dante’s in Fitzroy, Vic. Buy it here. In the full piece I discuss Sylvia Plath, Susanna Kaysen, and Elizabeth Wurtzel (in that order). As I’ll be reading the Sylvia Plath section tomorrow night, I’m reproducing the introduction and the middle section [...]
Smells, Snugglepot, Springsteen Vibes, Sleepers and Stuff
January 18, 2009 – 9:30 am
Ah, to write. To do it for the joy alone. I am addicted to creating and recording. I am also addicted to discovery. How does that writer do it? How did they come up with that? How did they capture just how that feels, or what it would feel like, or how it would feel to be [...]
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Buying time: Liz Sinclair on asking for money to write her book
I was very curious when I heard about Liz Sinclair’s project ‘Help Me Write My Book’. Like many writers, Liz has to work to support herself, and of course, work takes time away from what she’s really wanting to do – write that book. My first reaction, honestly, was something along the lines of ‘why does she [...]