Literary Stalkings: On the Trail of Bret Easton Ellis
When Bret Easton Ellis visited Australia last year, antipodean readers revisited their fascination with the cult American writer and his novels, including new addition Imperial Bedrooms, American...
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Interview with Alan Bissett: International Guest of the Emerging Writers’...
The first time I meet Alan Bissett he’s wearing gold shoes. They have a backstory that is a combination of Cinderella and Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting. This is probably the best introduction I can...
View ArticleDaytime / Nighttime books: Literary pleasures in the darkness and light
The re-reading of a novel often holds a certain illicit thrill – as the pile of classics sits there worthily along with the new Franzens and Foster Wallaces, their spines all still intact. As a...
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Interview with Raphael Brous: I Am Max Lamm
If a butterfly flaps its wings in Brazil, can it set off a tornado in Texas? Similarly, if a young tennis champion trains his forehand swing every day, could it have spectacularly lethal consequences?...
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Interview with Tamara Saulwick, creator and performer of Pin Drop
Fears are something we are thought to grow out of, as we leave our childhood beds and the threat of monsters hidden beneath them. Yet, the ‘things that go bump in the night’ encountered as an adult...
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Bait: Bret Easton Ellis jumps the shark?
Bret Easton Ellis is reportedly working on a screenplay for a shark horror film. The Guardian and various film sites have reported this week that Ellis is collaborating with Paul Schrader (the...
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‘It’s about the stories, it’s about the treasures’: Dressed for Murder –...
The ‘stories unbound’ theme of this year’s Melbourne Writers Festival – with its fluttery book exploding outward in posters across the city – was nicely evocative not only of the way in which writers...
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‘You transfix me, quite’: late thoughts on Jane Eyre
The transposition of a novel to screen always has an odd effect, like seeing a painted portrait move. There’s the vexed question of whether to judge the film on its own merits or in the fidelity to...
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Australian stories: ABC TV’s The Slap
When Christos Tsiolkas’s The Slap was published in 2008, it was one of those suddenly ubiquitous novels – everyone seemed to own a copy and everyone was talking about the social issues it raised....
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