Young Adult: Movies about Writers

Young Adult, the latest movie from the Jason Reitman/Diablo Cody team, tells the story of thirty-something Mavis Gary, the writer of a long-running…

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Memory is a wilful dog. It won’t be summoned or dismissed but it cannot survive without you. It can sustain you or feed…

My Love/Hate Relationship with Australian Fiction (II)

I can’t wait to read something that’s NOT Australian Yes, I know it’s only a matter of days since I admitted that I’d…

Everyone is related to the world through something. I through words… before I stopped writing, words had become treacherous and untrustworthy to me….

Last year I was invited by Westerly to write their annual fiction review. New Australian books would be delivered to me, absolutely pristine,…

The life that produces writing can’t be written about. It is a life carried on without the knowledge even of the writer, below…

It’s no secret that writing a book takes time. A lot of time. For me, around 5 years. Or that it pays badly….

Sheltered like an insect among the fallen bodies of ancestors, he huddled in the eye sockets of a mountainous skull and became part…

The question any novel is trying to answer is, Is life worth living? That’s a major question, a huge question, but the best…