ALEC PATRIC We often negotiate with death when we write. There’s a last will and testament to everything we put down to paper. The literary act itself, hands a …
THE TRANSITIONS OF JOSEPHINE ROWE: an interview
ALEC PATRIC Every writer has a muse, whether we put much thought into it or not. When we start out and are struggling to find our creative sources, we run …
THE POSSIBILITIES OF WAYNE MACAULEY: an interview by Alec Patric
ALEC PATRIC I picked up your new collection, Other Stories, published recently by Black Pepper. In a word, superb. ‘Reply to a Letter’ might just be the great Australian novel …
BROW BY BROW: an interview with Ronnie Scott
KIRK MARSHALL Over the years, The Lifted Brow has come to self-ascribe its format as that of a ‘bi-annual attack journal’. What’s the plan of attack? If there’s a manifesto …
SPUNC: an interview with Zoe Dattner
ALEC PATRIC A small press publisher called Russian Thought released a story called ‘The Lady with a Little Dog’ in their December issue, in 1899. A little earlier, The Russian …
THE BOUYANCY OF COURAGE: an interview with Francesca Rendle-Short
Some people are too good to be true, and Francesca Rendle-Short is one of those people, but she is true, as in real, and here she is, in conversation with …
DISTURBING DIALOGUES: an interview with Kuzhali Manickavel
ALEC PATRIC You have warned me not to ask you what life in India is like. I wouldn’t even have thought to ask you that, but I must confess, you’ve …
TEMPLE OF LITERATURE: an interview with Ruby J Murray
ALEC PATRIC Some of us grow up with a sense of crisis. We have a persistent feeling that there’s a looming catastrophe that we need to respond to in whatever …
AMPERSAND AND ALICE GAGE: an interview
ALEC PATRIC Alice Gage created and edits Ampersand, a biannual literary journal deeply informed by visual art. I’ve always been interested in these intersections of text and image. Cinema’s moving images have …
AUSTRALIA'S NEW HERO OF MAGIC REALISM: an interview with Glenda Guest
In the literary world there is a propensity for prize-winning authors to be elevated – or to elevate themselves – onto a special pedestal, complete with pretentious black-and-white profile photographs …