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- Also sound recording and braille.
Works about this Work
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London, Paris, Bracken Ridge—Nothing Ever Happens Here
2019
single work
essay
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2019; -
The Write Stuff
2014
single work
column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 30 June 2014; (p. 4-5) 'Nick Earls returns to his comedic roots in a nostalgic novel that mines the angst of living in the 21st century...' -
Books that Changed Me : Lisa Walker
2013
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 10 March 2013; (p. 12) -
Truth or Dare
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 26 - 27 May 2012; (p. 10-12)'Some novelist court strife by pilfering character traits and plotlines from friends and lovers - but how far is too far?' Susan Johnson.
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Engaging the Metaphorical City : Brisbane Male Fiction 1975-2007
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Sweat : The Subtropical Imaginary 2011; (p. 45-53) 'Brisbane writers and writing are increasingly represented as important to the city's identity as a site of urban cool, at least in marketing and public relations paradigms. It is therefore remarkable that recent Brisbane fiction clings strongly to a particular relationship to the climatic and built environment that is often located in the past and which seemingly turns away, or at least elides, the 'new' technologically-driven Brisbane. Literary Brisbane is often depicted in the context of nostalgia for the Brisbane that once was—a tropical, timbered, luxuriant city in which sex is associated with heat, and, in particular, sweat. In this writing sweat can produced by adrenaline or heat, but in particular, in Brisbane novels, it is the sweat of sex that characterises the literary city. Given that Brisbane is in fact a subtropical city, it is interesting that metaphors of a tropical climate and vegetation occur so frequently in Brisbane stories (and narratives set in other parts of the state) that writer Thea Astley was prompted at one point to remark that Queensland writing was in danger of developing into a tropical cliché.' Susan Carson.
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Same Again? Sure Thing, Matey
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 29 October vol. 116 no. 6044 1996; (p. 94-95)
— Review of Kindling Does for Firewood 1996 single work novel ; Zigzag Street 1996 single work novel ; Keep It Simple, Stupid 1996 single work novel -
All You Read is Love
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian's Review of Books , October vol. 1 no. 2 1996; (p. 3-4)
— Review of Passing Remarks 1996 single work novel ; Zigzag Street 1996 single work novel ; Australian Love Stories 1996 anthology short story extract ; Hungry Ghosts 1996 single work novel -
Delectably Wry
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 186 1996; (p. 52-53)
— Review of An Evening with the Messiah 1996 single work novel ; Zigzag Street 1996 single work novel -
From the Belly of Lucifer, Many a Tall Story and True
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 7 September 1996; (p. 13s)
— Review of Zigzag Street 1996 single work novel ; Love Shack 1996 single work novel -
Slick Farce Deals with the Absurdities of Solo Suburbia
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 21 September 1996; (p. C11)
— Review of Zigzag Street 1996 single work novel -
More to offer than Baywatch - International Press Commentary on the Release of Australian Novels
2001
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Inter-Cultural Studies , February vol. 1 no. 1 2001; (p. 7-13) -
A City in Its Own Write
2009
single work
column
— Appears in: Brisbane News , 6 - 12 May no. 733 2009; (p. 12-13) -
We Call Upon the Author to Explain : Theorising Writers' Festivals as Sites of Contemporary Public Culture
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , Special Issue 2010; 'This paper outlines a new vantage point for theorising today’s writers’ festivals as significant sites of contemporary public culture. Increasingly writers’ festivals claim to be both popular and important sites of public discussion and debate, and this paper’s empirical analysis of the 2007 Brisbane Writers Festival bears out these qualities. Yet, this Festival also positions itself as a thinking person’s alternative to the ‘unstoppable urge in TV and newspapers towards providing infotainment’, and claims ‘people are looking to our writers for the tools with which to think, not to be told what to think’ (Campbell, Making Sense of Our World). Addressing the mix of claims made for the 2007 Brisbane Writers Festival, as well as analysing the the topics discussed at the Festival, this paper examines the Festival’s multiple public culture roles and functions. Included in the topics discussed at the Festival are those typically produced and ciruclated in the media such as celebrity culture, and rather than viewing this content as trivialising and manipulative─as many critics of writers’ festivals have done─this paper illustrates how the media extended the 2007 Brisbane Writers Festival’s public culture function.' (Author's abstract) -
Truth or Dare
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 26 - 27 May 2012; (p. 10-12)'Some novelist court strife by pilfering character traits and plotlines from friends and lovers - but how far is too far?' Susan Johnson.
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Engaging the Metaphorical City : Brisbane Male Fiction 1975-2007
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Sweat : The Subtropical Imaginary 2011; (p. 45-53) 'Brisbane writers and writing are increasingly represented as important to the city's identity as a site of urban cool, at least in marketing and public relations paradigms. It is therefore remarkable that recent Brisbane fiction clings strongly to a particular relationship to the climatic and built environment that is often located in the past and which seemingly turns away, or at least elides, the 'new' technologically-driven Brisbane. Literary Brisbane is often depicted in the context of nostalgia for the Brisbane that once was—a tropical, timbered, luxuriant city in which sex is associated with heat, and, in particular, sweat. In this writing sweat can produced by adrenaline or heat, but in particular, in Brisbane novels, it is the sweat of sex that characterises the literary city. Given that Brisbane is in fact a subtropical city, it is interesting that metaphors of a tropical climate and vegetation occur so frequently in Brisbane stories (and narratives set in other parts of the state) that writer Thea Astley was prompted at one point to remark that Queensland writing was in danger of developing into a tropical cliché.' Susan Carson.
Awards
- 1998 winner Betty Trask Prize and Awards
Last amended 6 Sep 2011 11:05:32
Subjects:
- Urban,
- Brisbane, Queensland,
Settings:
- Red Hill, Kelvin Grove, Brisbane - North West, Brisbane, Queensland,
- 1990s
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