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'Do You Love Me or What? is a collection of eight sparkling, nuanced short stories from one of Australia’s most celebrated and loved writers. Written in elegant, shimmering prose, Sue’s stories are woven with themes encompassing love, loss and yearning, memory and identity, the desert and water, and people who live on the periphery of society. Her sentences are spare and evocative, yet paint fully realised pictures that speak of the poignant, shared experiences of the nature of relationships, past and present.'
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Lives Filled with Yearning for Love and Connections
2017
single work
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— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 4 March 2017; (p. 21) 'The title of Sue Woolfe’s new collection of stories sounds like a petulant query from a confused teenager, uttered with a raised eyebrow. But in the book it remains a rhetorical question, mulled over but never asked.' (Introduction) -
Writer's Life : Sue Wollfe
2017
single work
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— Appears in: Good Reading , March 2017; (p. 20) 'Creativity is often thought of as a special gift bestowed on only a handful of lucky people. But as Australian novelist Sue Woolfe points out, it's a skill that you can cultivate. Here are five tips she used to create her latest collection of stories, Do You Love Me or What?' (Publication abstract) -
[Review Essay] Do You Love Me or What?
2017
single work
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— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 18 March 2017; 'The line, “One day the longing became too great to bear”, appears in “Small Talk”, one of the eight stories that make up Do You Love Me or What?, Sue Woolfe’s collection of longish short fiction. It refers to Diana, an urban Australian who yearns to spend time in the desert and talk – meaningfully, whatever that means for a privileged white woman – with the Indigenous people who live there. She believes it will enable her, a child of migrants who’ve fled some unnamed oppression, to feel as if she belongs here, in this country. She wants this sense of connection deeply. ' (Introduction) -
Works in Progress
2017
single work
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— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 389 2017; (p. 32) 'An odd thing happened after I had finished reading this short story collection. I came back to it a couple of weeks later, intending to write this review, and found I had almost completely forgotten some of the stories. Such amnesia is unusual for me. Good short stories generally set up a resonance that lingers, even if not all the details stay in the mind. Does that mean, then, that these are not good short stories? I wouldn’t say that. Uneven, perhaps. Some seem unresolved, more like fragments: although they aim at completeness, and are polished to a finished form, on some level they go on unfurling, not yet ready to declare The End.' (Introduction)
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Works in Progress
2017
single work
essay
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 389 2017; (p. 32) 'An odd thing happened after I had finished reading this short story collection. I came back to it a couple of weeks later, intending to write this review, and found I had almost completely forgotten some of the stories. Such amnesia is unusual for me. Good short stories generally set up a resonance that lingers, even if not all the details stay in the mind. Does that mean, then, that these are not good short stories? I wouldn’t say that. Uneven, perhaps. Some seem unresolved, more like fragments: although they aim at completeness, and are polished to a finished form, on some level they go on unfurling, not yet ready to declare The End.' (Introduction) -
[Review Essay] Do You Love Me or What?
2017
single work
essay
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 18 March 2017; 'The line, “One day the longing became too great to bear”, appears in “Small Talk”, one of the eight stories that make up Do You Love Me or What?, Sue Woolfe’s collection of longish short fiction. It refers to Diana, an urban Australian who yearns to spend time in the desert and talk – meaningfully, whatever that means for a privileged white woman – with the Indigenous people who live there. She believes it will enable her, a child of migrants who’ve fled some unnamed oppression, to feel as if she belongs here, in this country. She wants this sense of connection deeply. ' (Introduction) -
Writer's Life : Sue Wollfe
2017
single work
column
— Appears in: Good Reading , March 2017; (p. 20) 'Creativity is often thought of as a special gift bestowed on only a handful of lucky people. But as Australian novelist Sue Woolfe points out, it's a skill that you can cultivate. Here are five tips she used to create her latest collection of stories, Do You Love Me or What?' (Publication abstract) -
Lives Filled with Yearning for Love and Connections
2017
single work
essay
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 4 March 2017; (p. 21) 'The title of Sue Woolfe’s new collection of stories sounds like a petulant query from a confused teenager, uttered with a raised eyebrow. But in the book it remains a rhetorical question, mulled over but never asked.' (Introduction)
Awards
- 2018 highly commended SWW Book Awards — Fiction
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