Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010 Translated from the French by Mitzi Angel The unnamed narrator of Jean-Christophe Valtat’s 03 is a seething mind. His thoughts, which comprise the novella’s uninterrupted, …
The White Silence after the Full-stop: Jean-Christophe Valtat's 03
Review by Ben Carmichael The unnamed narrator of Jean-Christophe Valtat’s 03 is a seething mind. His thoughts, which comprise the novella’s uninterrupted, paragraphless soliloquy, obsess over such topics typical to …
The Game (Irma Gold)
Abby is tall and lanky, taller than all the boys and skinny as all hell. Every afternoon she pegs it down to the wreckers to play with her brother Dan …
TWO STEPS FORWARD: an interview with Irma Gold
The world of literature is filled with personalities. Yes, that’s an inane sentence, but let me explain. The world of literature – perhaps the arts in general – is jam-packed …
Parrots (Paul Hetherington)
Beaking and clawing, they strew the ground where the glimmer of oil and hallucinations of petrol leak towards a broken bicycle frame. Benny threw it down, stripping the wheels, …
What Will It Take? (Gabrielle Bryden)
What does it take to get a bed in this place? You can come back if you have tried to kill yourself. How many nights will that get me? One, …
HOPE AND RISK: an interview with Omar Musa
Every city has a folk hero or two, and Omar Musa is one of the ACT’s folk heroes, although to be accurate he’s one of Queanbeyan’s folk heroes, and yes …
Brothers (Paul Hetherington)
They delved in mud under pines needles, rubbed together like animals, cupped black pearls of river water in nail-bitten hands, drank wind like a tart cordial. They tasted dirt …
ON THE HIGH ROAD: an interview with Chris Womersley
EMILY KIDDELL George Dunford wrote about Second Novel Syndrome in an essay called ‘Repeat Offenders’ (Meanjin) and considered a number of writers who’d fallen at that hurdle. He also wrote …
THE RESTORATIVE PHOTOGRAPHER: an interview with Jonny Lewis
‘Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. …