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''The best books are those you revisit over the years ... and with each visit you learn new things about yourself and about the story.' — Mykaela Saunders on Carpentaria by Alexis Wright
'All writers begin as readers.
'This is an ode, a love letter, to the magic of reading. To the spark that's set off when the reader thinks ... I can do this too. Here, twenty-six writers take us through these moments of revelation through the dog-eared pages of their favourite Australian books. Among them, poet Ellen van Neerven finds kin on the page with Miles Franklin-winner Tara June Winch. AS Patrić finds a dark mirror for our times in David Malouf’s retelling of an episode from the Iliad. Ashley Hay pens letters of appreciation and friendship to Charlotte Wood.
'These and many more writers come together to draw knowledge from the distinctive personal and sensory stories of this country: its thefts and losses, and its imagined futures. Australian fiction shows us what it is possible to say and, perhaps, what still needs to be said.
'Reading Like an Australian Writer is a delightful, inspirational and heartfelt collection of essays that will enrich your reading of Australian stories and guide you in your own writing.' (Publication summary)
Contents
- Kinship in Fiction and the Genre Blur of Swallow the Air as Novel in Stories, single work criticism
- Rhythm and Play in Tat Deadman Dance by Kim Scott, single work criticism
- A Big Sunny Shack : Cosmo Cosmolino by Helen Garner, single work criticism
- Short Stories... But Linked : Steven Amsterdam's Things We Didn't See Coming, single work criticism
- Reading Crises, Writing Crisis, single work criticism
- The Sad Old Flesh : How We Use Non-Human Characters to Interrogate Humanity, single work criticism
- Starting from Place : An Introduction to a Different Way of Thinking, single work criticism
- Read to Find Yourself, single work criticism
- Postcards to Charlotte Wood : Revisiting the Natural Way of Things, single work criticism
- Fearless : On Christos Tsiolkas, single work criticism
- Caught in the Rip : The First Seven Pages of Tim Winton's Breath, single work criticism
- Ending, Unfurling : The Life to Come by Midhelle de Krester, single work criticism
- An Uneasy Anticipation : Tension in MJ Hyland's Novels, single work criticism
- Structure in Nom Le's 'Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice', single work criticism
- If You See the Buddha in Suburbia Kill Him : Anguli Ma : A Gothic Tale, single work criticism
- Sabotage and Repair : Intertextuality in Carrie Tiffany's Exploded View, single work criticism
- Structure, Serpents and Serena McGarry : Kate Jennings' Snake, single work criticism
- 'Not Crying Now, but Brilliant-Eyed' : Epiphany in Harrower's 'The Fun of the Fair', single work criticism
- How to Build a Glass Church : Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda, single work criticism
- A Metaphysical Meeting Place : Sixty Lights by Gail Jones, single work criticism
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Fertile Ground : A Collection of Writings on Writing
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 431 2021; (p. 47-48)
— Review of Reading Like an Australian Writer 2021 anthology criticism'‘When I first began reading Nam Le’s Love and honour and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice, I was sceptical: a story about a writer writing a story? A writer at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, no less? Isn’t this a little self-indulgent? Hasn’t this been done before?’' (Introduction)
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Fertile Ground : A Collection of Writings on Writing
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 431 2021; (p. 47-48)
— Review of Reading Like an Australian Writer 2021 anthology criticism'‘When I first began reading Nam Le’s Love and honour and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice, I was sceptical: a story about a writer writing a story? A writer at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, no less? Isn’t this a little self-indulgent? Hasn’t this been done before?’' (Introduction)
