No wonder this book won so many hearts as well as awards. What an astonishing debut novel.
This week I’m in love with … Katherine Brabon & Laurie Anderson
No matter whether the photographs were of carefree young faces or haggard images taken by police, they all seemed to hold the weight of what…
This week I’m in love with … Kalinda Ashton and Marlena Shaw
… Kalinda Ashton and Marlena Shaw. Kalinda Ashton has built a world so real you can feel it inside you. Marlena Shaw is one powerful woman, saying it like it is.
This week I’m in love with … poets on the tram
On Tuesday I was introduced to the wonderful Benjamin Solah. Here he is performing his ode to his sometimes friend, Anxiety…
This week I’m in love with … the nexus of literature and music
… the nexus of literature and music. I love that the Nobel Prize committee decided to award the Literature Prize to a poet & musician, but I wish it had been Joni …
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… Barkskins and Ticking Bomb One morning an old man, his back bent beneath a bundle, his glaring eyes roving left and right, came ricketing…
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Apart from the sheer beauty, for me the way the backing singers support the soloist somehow embodies the strength and resilience of the oldest continuing culture on Earth.
This week I’m in love with …
… Our Magic Hour and Teeth & Tongue Two Melbourne artists this week. Jennifer Down’s sad and beautiful debut novel Our Magic Hour is pitch…
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… James Lasdun and Jess Cornelius Last week at a masterclass at the Brisbane Writers Festival, Stephen Amsterdam introduced us to this story by English…
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‘We either think that we’re invincible or that we are invisible
When realistically we’re somewhere in between’
This week I’m in love with …
… well researched long-form journalism and a bit of old school reggae Saturdays got a whole lot better since I subscribed to the Saturday Paper.…
This week I am in love with … a cartoonist and a remix
How have I survived Australia’s dodgy political cycle all these years without Fiona Katauskas?