‘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. …
THE INDEPENDENT SPIRIT: an interview with Laurie Steed
ALEC PATRIC There used to be just one or two record stores you could go to find the good shit. This was before the Internet made everything instantly and eternally …
HIDDEN BOOKS: an interview with Leslie Cannold
ALEC PATRIC There are books we buy and then hide afterwards. They become our secrets. Sometimes they’re so difficult to keep, we get rid of the evidence. We won’t admit …
THE ACHE IN CONNECTION: an interview with Angela Meyer
ALEC PATRIC We begin in fantasy. Daydreams are luscious zones of time that we dwell within for weeks, months and years. Somewhere within these spaces the idea emerges, of a …
THE FURIOUS PROGRESS OF CHRISTOPHER CURRIE: an interview
ALEC PATRIC A novel is like a street bum. Every one of them has a long, swashbuckling tale about how things got to be that-a-way. Tell me how such a …
From the Emergency: an Interview with Sunil Badami
Interviewer: Alec Patric This is the nightmare. You write your first novel. You pour everything you have into it, from raw talent to wild hope. You finish this novel and …
MOUNTING THE FIGHT: an interview with Anthony Macris
With the release of his latest book, you could be forgiven for thinking that more than a decade in academia teaching aspiring writers the fundamentals of literary theory, and writing …
ECSTATIC GIFTS: an interview with Krissy Kneen
ALEC PATRIC Do women like sex? That’s the headline on a fashion magazine I saw this morning. I didn’t pick it up so I don’t know how they answered. I’m …
THE BUMPY RIDE OF EXPOSING SHIT-HEADS: an interview with Richard Neville
There are stories that have threaded themselves in and around my bones. The dismissal of Gough Whitlam is one, everything about Picnic at Hanging Rock is another, and the extinction …
SNAPSHOTS OF TRUTH: an interview with Paddy O’Reilly
ALEC PATRIC There’s a way a writer places themselves in a box when they create a story. The more we write the more that box defines itself as the limits …