Jonathan Franzen – Annabel Smith

My 20s were perhaps the most exciting reading period of my life. When they began I was studying literature at university, including two…

This month’s Writers ask Writers post was inspired by a question from one of my regular blog readers (thanks Steve!): How do you maintain…

I’ve just started reading Jami Attenberg’s The Middlesteins and it is my favourite kind of book – an analysis of an ordinary family’s…

Every Tuesday The Broke and the Bookish hosts a meme inviting book bloggers to post their top ten on a given topic. I…

Being stranded on a desert island I’d definitely want to have a few of my all-time faves with me. But given that I’d…

Almost a decade ago, while living in Melbourne, I had my first ‘real’ full-time office job. A thinly-veiled fictional account of this experience…

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

Annabel Smith