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Notes
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Contents indexed selectively.
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Includes the sixth instalment of Caroline Lee's serialised novel Stripped.
Contents
- Notes on Provenance, or, Tom Ross's Tooth, single work autobiography (p. 20-31)
- A Nice Sound : On Designing 'Nick Cave Stories', single work prose (p. 32-37)
- Nick Cave, Man or Myth?, single work prose (p. 81-93)
- Their Hooks Find Hold Deep in Our Flesh : Part Six, single work prose (p. 125-142)
- Immersing the Audience : Sophie Cunningham Talks to Robert Connolly, Sophie Cunningham (interviewer), single work interview (p. 150-161)
- How to Cook a Family, single work short story (p. 164-167)
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Loud Bones,
single work
short story
'It’s been three years since Roxanne had sex. For the first six months, it had been funny. Sitting with Rita and Linda in cafés on Brunswick Street, in the city, in Collingwood, she’d thrown her arms up in the air and said things like ‘Six months, I mean, what the fuck is that, right?’ And they’d all laughed, as if there was something exciting and even naughty about not having sex in six whole months. By that August, she was shocked to realise that she’d been making the ‘six months’ joke for a whole year. ‘Twelve months’ just didn’t have the same sound as ‘six months’. At the end of eighteen months, she stopped talking about it altogether. When the topic of sex came up, as it invariably did, she sidestepped, laughed, said ‘not as frequently as I’d like’ or something equally inane, and moved the conversation away from herself.' (Introduction)
- Suburban Mystery, single work short story (p. 177-182)
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Intelligence Quotient,
single work
short story
'Just before I turned forty, my mother, who was the only other member of my family still alive, died from a stroke. She left me a small amount of money, enough for a deposit on a semi in a suburb that was not too far from the city, a place where the streets were hilly and treeless, and the houses that hadn’t been knocked down to build huge brick villas remained unrenovated.' (Introduction)
- Provisional Desire, single work short story (p. 195-199)
- Heat Wave, Melbourne - Hottest Day on Record since 1855i"Snorkelling a sunken platform three feet deep", single work poetry (p. 216-217)
- Religious Experiencei"Something like a temple has appeared in the hotel lobby", single work poetry (p. 218)
- 1. Morning Sicknessi"I had lost myself in a novel by Marie Darrieussecq", single work poetry (p. 219)
- 2. Ultrasoundi"I had read that some women feed life with scratched", single work poetry (p. 219)
- Unborn, sequence poetry (p. 219-220)
- 3. Foetal Movementi"In my guidebook to pregnancy, a pencil illustration offers me", single work poetry (p. 220)
- Standing among the Philosophy Class There Will Be Shadows, Murmuringi"Coats wet, we come", single work poetry (p. 221)
- Precious Fewi"Not him. You've seen him by a garden bed,", single work poetry (p. 222)
- Graphology 808 : Beetopic or Beetopia?i"Indifferent to imagery and choreography,", single work poetry (p. 223)
- Talking to Angeri"Ah, anger, you are a bat,", single work poetry (p. 224)