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Miles Franklin 2012 longlist announced
The longlist of titles for the 2012 Miles Franklin Literary Award have been announced today. There are thirteen nominees in the longlist this year (from 61 entires): Tony Birch Blood Steven Carroll...
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‘I close my eyes and count to one hundred’: Romy Ash’s Floundering
The tangy residue of Twisties on small fingers. The sickly flavor of soft drink so warm it tastes like tea. Vinyl car seats that melt and stick. In her debut novel, Romy Ash has conjured startlingly...
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Liticism’s Miles Franklin Countdown: Anna Funder’s All That I Am
*Spoiler alert: this is not intended as a straight review and I do refer to key plot points in this analysis. In the context of the Miles Franklin and its criteria of presenting ‘Australian life in...
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Miles Franklin 2012 shortlist announced
The shortlist for the 2012 Miles Franklin Award has just been announced, and it appears to be decidedly free from the controversy that plagued it last year — we are neither in ‘sausage-fest’...
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Liticism’s Miles Franklin Countdown: Tony Birch’s Blood
*Spoiler alert: this is not intended as a straight review and I do refer to key plot points in this analysis. In one of the most vividly memorable moments of the novel, our young protagonists Jesse...
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Liticism’s Miles Franklin Countdown: Favel Parrett’s Past The Shallows
*Spoiler alert: this is not intended as a straight review and I do refer to key plot points in this analysis. It’s strange the way works read in succession can speak to each other, the way the mind...
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‘To whittle down all that I am and give it a value’: Anna Funder and the...
At the end of All That I Am the protagonist Ruth muses: ‘It is the hardest thing, to work out one’s weight and heft in the world, to whittle down all that I am and give it a value.’ This now seems...
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Writing Another Jakarta: An Interview with Ruby J. Murray
Guest Post by Rebecca Harkins-Cross Ruby J. Murray’s debut novel Running Dogs explores how mythologies, both political and personal, may influence the trajectory of our lives. Protagonist Diana is an...
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Guest Post —‘A design of beauty and significance’: Rachel Robertson’s...
Guest Post by Elizabeth Bryer I have been waiting for this book for four years. Not that I knew that it would come into existence; I just hoped, quietly confident, that it would. Rachel Robertson’s...
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Guest Post — The Political Post-Apocalypse: Antony Loewenstein and Jeff...
Guest post by Adam Brereton Antony Loewenstein and Jeff Sparrow, in the introduction to their new book Left Turn: Political Essays For The New Left, invite the reader to imagine current examples in...
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2012 Prime Minister’s Literary Award winners announced
The winners of the fifth annual Prime Minister’s Literary Awards were announced today at the National Library of Australia. The awards, which ‘celebrate the contribution of Australian literature...
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‘I don’t write for people who already know what they think’: Interview with...
‘Let’s not kid ourselves. The injustice is complete. This is not a debate over whether our treatment of animals is unethical or not. It’s unethical. We know this…The question is: just how much...
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Going Down Swinging #33 launch: Interview with Geoff Lemon
Amongst all the many panel discussions, debates, and ‘in conversations’, the Melbourne Writers Festival is the site of launches for new and established literary magazines. MWF has hosted the Big Issue...
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‘Your words, my pictures’: Brenda Niall’s True North
This review is cross-posted from the Wheeler Centre‘s Victorian Premier’s Literary Award series. The most fascinating section of Brenda Niall’s biography of the Durack sisters is the penultimate...
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A talisman of luck and love: Gillian Mears’ Foal’s Bread
This review is cross-posted from the Wheeler Centre’s Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards series. It is a talisman of luck, and love. Foal’s bread – both the object and the novel – is a strange, rare...
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