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Geoff Dyer experienced one of the most unusual literary residencies we’ve heard of—he got to spend time on the aircraft carrier USS George H. W.
‘This combination of extravagant talent, extreme subject matter, emotional intensity, and a radical and difficult style has led McBride to be generally regarded, since the publication of her novel, as the literary love child of two writers she is eager to acknowledge as
Chris Flynn’s second novel, The Glass Kingdom, is Book of the Month at Readings for June. Reviewing The Glass Kingdom for Readings, Alan Vaarwerk says, ‘Chris Flynn has a real flair for language…Smart and wryly funny, Read more
‘Tree Palace intelligently muses on the nature of human connections, to place and one another.’ Peter Pierce reviews Craig Sherborne’s new novel in the Sydney Morning Herald.
The case for Gerald Murnane’s The Plains as the great Australian novel.
‘Don’t ever do it for the money’: a conversation with a literary agent.
‘Sian Prior’s beautiful and confessional memoir, Shy, starts with her dismantling a bedroom mirror and removing it from her sight—not for the truth it tells, but the illusion it feeds.’ Sian Prior is profiled in the Sydney Morning Herald. Read more
I’m not interested in irony and I’m not interested in clever. I’m interested in trying to dig out parts of human life that cannot be expressed in a straightforward way, that don’t fit neatly into the vocabulary and grammar that are available.
The 25 greatest homes in literature. (Whither Pemberley, the whole reason for the love story in Pride and Prejudice? Don’t try to tell me Lizzie would still have fallen for Darcy without seeing his swell digs.)
