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What we Talk About When We Talk About Australian Literature,
single work
review
— Review of Text Classics 2012 series - publisher novel ;'Somewhere around 1988, Australian literature changed.
'When the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature was published at the end of winter in 2009, there was a one-day forum to discuss it at the State Library of New South Wales. It featured, among others, an assortment of full professors, including both of the country’s Professors of Australian Literature, Robert Dixon from Sydney and Philip Mead from Perth, and the anthology’s general editor, Nicholas Jose. One session featured all of the section editors, of whom I was one. In the course of a discussion about the Ozlit canon and what we thought had happened to it, we were asked when we had first registered that ‘the canon’ as we had all known it in the 1970s and 1980s had begun to break up, after the fashion of polar ice. My answer felt glib at the time even to me, but over three years later and after a great deal of thought, it would still be the same: ‘ASAL Parody Night, 1988.’' (Introduction)
Note: Posted 29/01/2013 -
The Brain Feign,
single work
review
— Review of All That I Am 2011 single work novel ;Note: Posted 29/01/2013 -
Auto Da Fe,
single work
review
— Review of The Burning Library : Our Great Novelists Lost and Found 2012 selected work criticism ;Note: Posted : 29/01/2013 -
God and Pogo Sticks,
single work
review
— Review of The World Last Night 2012 selected work poetry ;Note: Posted 29/01/2013