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1 The Velvet Plain Adam Ouston , 2020 single work short story
— Appears in: Meanjin , June vol. 79 no. 2 2020; (p. 42-47)
1 The Fetish Adam Ouston , 2019 single work short story
— Appears in: Island , no. 156 2019; (p. 40)
1 y separately published work icon The Fetish Adam Ouston , Hobart : A Published Event , 2018 19039610 2018 single work novel

'It is the morning of the Sculptor’s execution. The unnamed narrator has come for her heart, which she’s hidden in a glass jar beneath a loose floorboard in the local chapel. It still beats and seems to be growing. As the funeral procession winds through the city, the narrator recounts the story of her work at the city’s bathhouse, and the different kinds of love she holds for the Sculptor and the Gravedigger. All the while she asks: What is love? Against a backdrop of civil revolt against the city’s duplicitous mayor, The Fetish tells a story of love, ambition, art, loneliness and the eternal struggle between security and desire.'

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1 The Caves of Blanes Adam Ouston , 2016 single work short story
— Appears in: Tincture Journal , Summer no. 16 2016; (p. 21-24)
1 Story of a Chair Adam Ouston , 2015 single work short story
— Appears in: Communion Literary Magazine , June no. 3 2015;
1 Sodom Syndrome Adam Ouston , 2015 single work short story
— Appears in: Transportation : Islands and Cities - A Collection of Short Stories from Tasmania and London 2015;
1 Auguries Adam Ouston , 2015 single work short story
— Appears in: Tincture Journal , Summer no. 12 2015; (p. 5-18)
1 Dessaix: A Grand Narrative Adam Ouston (interviewer), 2014 single work interview
— Appears in: Island , no. 138 2014; (p. 26-31) 'Robert is a writer, broadcaster, essayist, translator and, as of quite recently, a playwright. After teaching Russian Language and Literature at the ANU and the University of New South Wales, he moved into radio as the host of the ABC's Books and Writing program before taking up writing full-time. Since then, he has produced many books, essays, reviews and, more recently, a play (staged for the very first time last year in Launceston in the Earl Arts Centre). Robert's major publications include the autobiography, A Mother's Disgrace (1994); two novels, Night Letters: A Journey through Switzerland and Italy (1996) and Corfu: A Novel (2001); two travel memoirs, Twilight of Love: Travels with Turgenev (2004) and Arabesques: A Tale of Double Lives (2008); as well as two collections of essays, And So Forth (1998) and As I was Saying (2012). These books often focus on the question of self: the self or selves of the authors in whose footsteps Robert travels, and also the self of the narrating persona.' (Publication abstract)
1 The Chaos of Life Beyond Death in the Outback Adam Ouston , 2014 single work short story
— Appears in: Long Paddock , vol. 74 no. 1 2014;
1 Self's the Man Adam Ouston , 2014 single work short story
— Appears in: The Lifted Brow , June no. 23 2014; (p. 44-45)
1 All That I Have is Everything Adam Ouston , 2013 single work short story
— Appears in: Island , Summer no. 135 2013; (p. 60-64)
1 The Limb Adam Ouston , 2013 single work short story
— Appears in: Review of Australian Fiction , vol. 7 no. 3 2013;
1 An Archipelago of Billions Adam Ouston , 2012 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Island , Spring no. 130 2012; (p. 122-132)
1 Nostalgia Adam Ouston , 2012 single work prose
— Appears in: Islet
1 Short Fiction Adam Ouston , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Island , Winter no. 113 2008; (p. 55-58)
— Review of Under the Mountain Geoffrey Field Dean , 2007 selected work short story ; Other Lives Jane Williams , 2007 selected work short story
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