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'Can a relationship survive a long-anticipated but disappointing world trip? Will a small-shopkeeper cope when pitted against an emerging mega-mall? How do we keep our sanity in the face of life’s obstacles – and when we don’t, what will pull it back again? Take a trip through the world’s greatest cities and into the mind’s darkest places. Anthony Macris’s new fiction – a novella and accompanying story cycle – deftly examines our fragile relationships with travel, art, money and, especially, each other.
'Inexperience includes award-winning work previously featured in publications such as Penguin’s Australian Writing Now and Picador New Writing. The collection refreshes and unites Macris’s early work with new writing from the perspective of the more mature and contemplative writer. In it, Macris’s innovative story-telling and subtle ironies show how the experiences that make or break us can also be the ones that tell us who we are. ' (Publication summary)
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Works about this Work
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The State of Australian Reality : Roanna Gonsalves’ The Permanent Resident and Anthony Macris’ Inexperience and other stories
2017
single work
review
— Appears in: Verity La , September 2017;
— Review of The Permanent Resident 2016 selected work short story ; Inexperience and Other Stories 2016 selected work short story -
A Malfunctioning Heart Bared to the Scalpel
2017
single work
essay
— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses , April vol. 21 no. 1 2017; 'Anthony Macris’s collection of short stories is grouped into two sections, ‘Inexperience’ and ‘Quiet Achievers’. Together, these sections offer a sophisticated and compassionate analysis of masculinity in a modern, consumer, capitalist world.' (Introduction) -
Leaving Paradise
2016
single work
review
essay
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December no. 387 2016; (p. 60) 'Given the Australian propensity for travel, it is odd that the global wanderings of our citizens are not much explored in literary fiction, which is still in the anguished throes of self-examination, arguably stuck in a loop. How refreshing, then, to read Anthony Macris’s fourth book, Inexperience and Other Stories, a short volume which drops the reader into the discomfiting world of an Australian couple overseas.' (Introduction) -
A Real Inexperience
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , September 2016;
— Review of Inexperience and Other Stories 2016 selected work short story -
They Wandered Lonely in a Crowd
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 17-18 September 2016; (p. 24) The Saturday Age , 18-19 September 2016; (p. 18)
— Review of Inexperience and Other Stories 2016 selected work short story
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Anthony Macris Observes Lonely Crowds in Inexperience and Other Stories
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: Brisbane Times , 8 September 2016;
— Review of Inexperience and Other Stories 2016 selected work short story 'The Sydney-based writer Anthony Macris has a modest body of published works: two novels, some shorter pieces and a memoir centred on his family's experience of autism. Not surprisingly, therefore, he is not as well-known outside literary circles as he should be. There is, nevertheless, another reason why his is not a household name among readers of recent fiction. His novels and short stories do not fit the mould of what constitutes these days marketable "products". For all that, Macris, who seems to me one of the most interesting writers of our time, has not lacked critical esteem. ...' -
They Wandered Lonely in a Crowd
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 17-18 September 2016; (p. 24) The Saturday Age , 18-19 September 2016; (p. 18)
— Review of Inexperience and Other Stories 2016 selected work short story -
A Real Inexperience
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , September 2016;
— Review of Inexperience and Other Stories 2016 selected work short story -
The State of Australian Reality : Roanna Gonsalves’ The Permanent Resident and Anthony Macris’ Inexperience and other stories
2017
single work
review
— Appears in: Verity La , September 2017;
— Review of The Permanent Resident 2016 selected work short story ; Inexperience and Other Stories 2016 selected work short story -
Leaving Paradise
2016
single work
review
essay
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December no. 387 2016; (p. 60) 'Given the Australian propensity for travel, it is odd that the global wanderings of our citizens are not much explored in literary fiction, which is still in the anguished throes of self-examination, arguably stuck in a loop. How refreshing, then, to read Anthony Macris’s fourth book, Inexperience and Other Stories, a short volume which drops the reader into the discomfiting world of an Australian couple overseas.' (Introduction) -
A Malfunctioning Heart Bared to the Scalpel
2017
single work
essay
— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses , April vol. 21 no. 1 2017; 'Anthony Macris’s collection of short stories is grouped into two sections, ‘Inexperience’ and ‘Quiet Achievers’. Together, these sections offer a sophisticated and compassionate analysis of masculinity in a modern, consumer, capitalist world.' (Introduction)