Hughes vs. Koons
Art

Hughes vs. Koons

by admin on May 13, 2013 • No Comments
Despite some of the flaws in Robert Hughes’ 1980 epic of modern art criticism The Shock of the New — most noticeably the fact that the author appeared to have forgotten that women were more than holes and whores –  he’s still one of my favourite sentence-slingers. I recently came...
Running Dogs
Writing

Running Dogs

by admin on Dec 7, 2012 • No Comments
RUNNING DOGS Jakarta, 1997, and the city is on the verge of a revolution. Even the Jordan children — Petra, Isaak, and Paul — can feel it coming, shaking the edges of their privileged, protected expat world. Years later, Australian development worker Diana moves to Reformasi Jakarta and becomes irrevocably...
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Running Dogs Shortlisted for NSW Premier's Awards
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Running Dogs Shortlisted for NSW Premier’s Awards

by admin on May 23, 2013 • No Comments
Running Dogs was shortlisted for the Glenda Adams Award for New Writing in the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards last month, along with Paul D. Carter’s Eleven Seasons, Courtney Collins’s The Burial, Amy Espeseth’s Sufficient Grace, Ryan O’Neill’s The Weight of  Human Heart and Michael Sala’s The Last Thread. The awards night was on...
Looping Mvula
Art

Looping Mvula

by admin on May 13, 2013 • 1 Comment
Two months ago I decided I was going to spend more time actively looking, searching, for new music. I have been lazy, for years, relying on my brother and the friends who take pity on me and send me tapes and drop boxes of artists he thinks I might like. My relationship with music is...
Christian Marclay's 'The Clock'
Art

Christian Marclay’s ‘The Clock’

by admin on Feb 13, 2013 • No Comments
Early in January I got on a plane (or rather, a series of planes, thanks to the folks at a certain inept budget airline) and flew to New York to visit my step-sister, who was working as a set-designer for Radio Hole on their mash-up of the Frankenstein story. I spent a few days dragging...
Sick of writing damn bios? Technology to the rescue.
Art / Science

Sick of writing damn bios? Technology to the rescue.

by admin on Feb 8, 2013 • No Comments
There’s so much debate over whether or not computers will one day be able to mimic humans perfectly. All I know is, they can already mimic artist’s bios. A friend of mine posted a link to The First Letter a few days ago. You enter the barest of details into the program (name, birth city,...
The Age Short Story Competition
Australia / News / Writing

The Age Short Story Competition

by admin on Jan 28, 2013 • 1 Comment
Really delighted this week to have come in third in the Age Short Story Competition, after the fantastic Michelle Wright for Maggot and Graeme Simsion with Three Encounters with the Physical. (Graeme’s book The Rosie Project is out this year through Text and there’s a lot of great energy around its release.) My story, “Hunting Animals”,...
Agatha Christie
Writing

Agatha Christie

by admin on Dec 21, 2012 • 2 Comments
Agatha Christie Dumbo Feather, Pass It On, Issue 31 May 2012 It’s important that you understand two things about Agatha Christie. The first thing you have to understand is that Agatha Christie was fiercely sane. She spent her entire life being pragmatic, and methodical; except for the time she went mad. She was born in...

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