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Richard Freadman Richard Freadman i(A26314 works by)
Born: Established: 1951 Melbourne, Victoria, ;
Gender: Male
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1 Starting Over Richard Freadman , 2023 single work short story
— Appears in: High Noon at Starbucks : And Other Stories 2023;
1 Balderstone's Salute Richard Freadman , 2023 single work short story
— Appears in: High Noon at Starbucks : And Other Stories 2023;
1 Wasserman's Dream Richard Freadman , 2023 single work short story
— Appears in: High Noon at Starbucks : And Other Stories 2023;
1 The Patient Richard Freadman , 2023 single work short story
— Appears in: High Noon at Starbucks : And Other Stories 2023;
1 High Noon at Starbucks Richard Freadman , 2023 single work short story
— Appears in: High Noon at Starbucks : And Other Stories 2023;
1 Switzerland Richard Freadman , 2023 single work short story
— Appears in: High Noon at Starbucks : And Other Stories 2023;
1 The Portrait of a Lady Richard Freadman , 2023 single work short story
— Appears in: High Noon at Starbucks : And Other Stories 2023;
1 Solly, My Sister Richard Freadman , 2023 single work short story
— Appears in: High Noon at Starbucks : And Other Stories 2023;
1 The Check-Up Richard Freadman , 2023 single work short story
— Appears in: High Noon at Starbucks : And Other Stories 2023;
1 Starting Out Richard Freadman , 2023 single work short story
— Appears in: High Noon at Starbucks : And Other Stories 2023;
1 y separately published work icon High Noon at Starbucks : And Other Stories Richard Freadman , Melbourne : Hybrid , 2023 27423195 2023 selected work short story 'High Noon at Starbucks is an eloquent and compelling exploration of human particularity in diverse cultural settings: the author's hometown of Melbourne, Trumpite Florida, post-handover Hong Kong, and Switzerland. Its themes include mid-life experience, identity, mental and physical illness, gender, colonialism, and the Holocaust. Whether comic, tragic, or tragicomic, these stories are pervasively concerned with the complexities of the moral life. Their historical reach includes imaginative encounters with classics of nineteenth century fiction. Sophisticated but accessible, High Noon at Starbucks reminds us that fictional realism remains very much a going concern.' (Publication summary) 
1 Between Two Worlds : The Stories of Serge Liberman Richard Freadman , 2019 single work biography
— Appears in: Coolabah , no. 26 2019; (p. 33-35)

'Serge Liberman, who died in December 2017, was an important and highly distinctive Australian ethnic writer. His short stories, including the posthumously published The Storyteller, conduct what is in effect a conversation between two worlds: that of post-Enlightenment rationality, on the one hand, and that of the magical, the folkloric, the Hassidic, imagination of the shtetl, on the other. Liberman’s profound tragic sense does not preclude the possibility of human redemption through empathy, compassion and imaginative inspiration.'  (Publication abstract)

1 1 y separately published work icon Stepladder to Hindsight : An Almost Memoir Richard Freadman , Ormond : Hybrid , 2016 12016074 2016 single work autobiography

'Stepladder to Hindsight is about a fascinating man who has reached a turning point in his life and looks back. In this work, renowned academic and life-writer Richard Freadman turns the pen on himself, producing an immensely compelling narrative of his life.   Elegant and richly self-aware, Stepladder to Hindsight gives us unbridled access to a complex life and a unique mind. Within these pages you will find humour and tragedy, peppered with astute literary commentary and philosophical musings. This 'almost memoir' is fiercely intelligent and so addictively personal that it is hard to put down.   What the critics said: "...an eloquent book, a unique combination of compelling storytelling, searching reflection, with an extraordinary range of mood and style - an original take on the art of life writing." - Arnold Zable  ' (Publication summary)

1 A Lighter Knowing Richard Freadman , 2015 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Latest Writing 2014-2016;

— Review of Towards the Equator : New & Selected Poems Alex Skovron , 2015 selected work poetry
1 Clancy Departs Dog Eat Bone World : Richard Freadman Remembers Laurie Clancy Richard Freadman , 2014 single work autobiography
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 14 no. 4 2014;

'One of my first sightings of Laurie was in a framed photo in the old Eagle Bar at La Trobe University. Entitled ‘The Coach,’ the photo featured a young and rather fit-looking Captain Coach addressing his players at the quarter or three-quarter time break. The players, it has to be said, look completely uninterested in proceedings; but according to the picture’s caption Laurie is pulling out all the rhetorical stops. The caption reads:

Senior Lecturer in English Laurie Clancy urges on the football team in mid-1969 with accounts of existentialism and the thinking of Kierkegarrd.'

(Author's introduction)

1 3 y separately published work icon Jovial Harbinger of Doom : The Short Stories of Laurie Clancy Laurie Clancy , Richard Freadman (editor), Port Adelaide : Ginninderra Press , 2014 7919728 2014 selected work short story

'A master of melancholic wit, Laurie Clancy was one of Australia's most versatile short story writers. If realism was his artistic staple, he had a genius for farce and the mock-heroic, and was remarkably adept at magic realism, postmodern experimentation and the fiction of ideas. Equally at home in the pub, the seminar room, literary journals and the columns of daily newspapers, Clancy was a wickedly astute but compassionate and ultimately good-humoured guide to the vagaries of the human heart, both at home and abroad. This posthumous selection shows him in his pomp as a practitioner of fiction's shorter forms.' (Publication summary)

1 Clinging to the Shreds of the Self : Life Writing and Illness in Inga Clendinnen's 'Tiger's Eye' Richard Freadman , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Life Writing , October vol. 9 no. 4 2012; (p. 377-390)
Inga Clendinnen's Tiger's Eye is a brilliant, if conflicted, work of what I term 'illness life writing' (as opposed to the scientistic terms 'pathography' or 'autopathography'). In fact, no single generic descriptor can do justice to this text, which comprises elements of illness and survival writing, memoir, autobiography, fiction, narrative history, confession and Kunsterroman. As its title suggests, the book exudes a tigerish, agential tenacity; a refusal to succumb to life-threatening illness and its attacks on psychological and physical selfhood. Writing, both before and after the major illness, is fundamental to Clendinnen's agential response, and indeed this survivor narrative claims not only that writing helped to save the author but that illness helped her to become a writer. This later claim, which is never fully clarified, provides the Kunsterroman dimension, though, curiously, the whole issue of 'becoming' itself becomes clouded late in the book where Clendinnen seems to repudiate confessional - indeed all autobiographical - writing and to see the self, especially the agential self, as a fragmentary fiction. This quasi-postmodern view sits uneasily with much of what has come before, and indeed with some of Clendinnen's pronouncements as an internationally acclaimed historian. The essay, which also considers gender issues and the book's shifting account of the mind/body relation, concludes by inquiring what responsibilities survivor illness life writers have to their readers. [Author's abstract]
1 'Gentleness My Strong Enforcement' : The Ethos of Gentleness in 'East of Time' and 'Sunrise West' Richard Freadman , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Singing for All He's Worth : Essays in Honour of Jacob G. Rosenberg 2011; (p. 113-137)
1 Journey without End Richard Freadman , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 324 2010; (p. 35-36)

— Review of Zwishn Himl un Waser Herz Bergner , 1946 single work novel
1 Nothing without a 'But' Richard Freadman , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 315 2009; (p. 8-9)

— Review of The Hollow Tree Jacob G. Rosenberg , 2010 single work novel
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