Pursued by the Empire's sinister agents, Princess Leia races home aboard her starship, custodian of the stolen plans that can save her people and restore freedom to the galaxy. This is W H Chong's story of a storied journal and its transformation.
Author Sophie Cunningham suffered a fairly ugly break-up last month from literary journal Meanjin. Which might be good news for readers -- her novels are wonderful, particularly her latest, Bird.
Other Stories brings together Melbourne-based Wayne Macauley’s output over the past decade and counting. The collection is filled with ‘other’ stories—tales that are other, or outside the mainstream, writes Elizabeth Bryer.
The steady stream of footballers’ memoirs can be traced back to Lou Richards’ 1963 effort, Boots and All, writes Damien Francis, freelance writer and editor.
As the plan of the main library in San Francisco is open, with no full separation between floors, one gets the sense of a theatre where the confessional is aired. Binoy Kampmark listens to the library secrets, told amongst piles of books.
Australian Paul Murphy has been making book trailers since before the days of YouTube. Book blogger Angela Meyer discusses the range and quality of his work in this emerging field.
NY Times offers up its annual 100 notable books of the year, from literary darling Jonathan Franzen's Freedom to the latest from the best-selling Girl with the Dragon tattoo series and biographies on Barack Obama.
Is form following function? Are we evolving? Or, to the question I want to consider here: is writing evolving? And is there a danger of Australian writers losing their distinctive voice, asks writer and editor Sophie Cunningham?
To lose one editor is a misfortune; to lose two or three, damned careless. So said Jim Davidson, a former Meanjin editor, who had some pointed words for the current management. W.H. Chong was there.
A new biography of Philip K. Dick by his ex-wife Anne Rubenstein describes the late SCI-FI writer as a "psychomorph" who had a troubled domestic life and a personality that fluctuated wildly depending on his company.
