LiteraryMinded
Blog URL http://blogs.crikey.com.au/literaryminded
Located Melbourne, Victoria Australia
Tags literature, books, book reviews, author interviews, poetry, fiction, writing, reading
Book reviews, author interviews and personalised posts of Gen Y Australian writer Angela Meyer.
The official literary blog of Australian news media website Crikey.
Latest Blog Posts
- Kilts and wine breath: a conversation with my sister about meeting Diana Gabaldon on Nov 18, 2009 in Commentary American authors American fiction An Echo in the Bone author responsibility Aye Cross Stitch Diana Gabaldon Dymocks Dymocks Camberwell embarrassing moments erotic fiction famous authors fandom fangirl historical fiction Jamie and Claire kilts literary events meeting authors meeting favourite writers middle-aged women Outlander Outlander series readers reading Sassenach Scotland Scottish Sonja Meyer writers as presenters
Some years ago when I was a bookstore girl, I became intrigued by this massive brick of a book called Cross Stitch, which many middle-aged women would get flustered over: ‘You haven’t read it?’ they’d ask. I read it, and it was great fun –...
- Guest review: Pamela Wilson on Frank Walker’s The Tiger Man of Vietnam on Nov 16, 2009 in
The Tiger Man of Vietnam Frank Walker Hachette Australia October 2009 9780733623660 Reviewed by Pamela Wilson When you’ve got a story full of intrigue, deception, torture and murder, you’ve got the makings of a good thriller. When that story is...
- Goodbye Billie Jean on Nov 14, 2009 in Commentary art Australian publishing industry Charter for Compassion compassion Goodbye Billie Jean Michael Jackson MJ MJJ Sydney visual art
With a million things due and a million to organise (not to mention the inbox) I’m running away today to go for a walk in the mountains with some dear friends. I really, really need it. Yesterday I came back from a business trip to Sydney. It w...
- Review of George Dawes Green’s Ravens for ABC Radio National’s The Book Show on Nov 11, 2009 in American authors American literature Gearge Dawes Green Ravens review The Book Show
I recently reviewed the thriller Ravens, by George Dawes Green, for The Book Show on ABC Radio National. Have a listen, here.
- In the end we all fade to black: a ‘responsive’ interview with Kathy Charles, author of Hollywood Ending on Nov 9, 2009 in actors actresses Australian authors Bel Air cataloguing celebrity Chris Farley cinema classifying Courtney Love dark tourism David Bowie death death hags fallen stars fame famous glamour golden age history Hollywood Hollywood Ending Hollywood sign Janis Joplin jim morrison Jimi Hendrix John Belushi John Lennon Kathy Charles Kurt Cobain LA Melbourne movies MTV Publishing nostalgia numerology paparazzi Paris Hilton RKO Text
Kathy Charles’ debut novel Hollywood Ending was recently released by Text Publishing. In my review for the October issue of Australian Book Review I said: ‘Kathy Charles creates a world both familiar and strange … Despite being hig...
- Snapshot on Nov 8, 2009 in Commentary links lists round-up to-read
Number of items on to-do list: Nine. Not too bad. The next five books I’m planning to read in no particular order: Jasper Jones (Craig Silvey), Siren (Tara Moss), Parrot & Olivier in America (Peter Carey), The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe...
- This cumulative kind of effect when you stop: an interview with Emily Maguire on Smoke in the Room, part two on Nov 4, 2009 in acting out Australian authors Australian books Australian literature bleak books challenging characters confronting books Emily Maguire empathy Graham Greene Jane Eyre outsider Picador self-harm Smoke in the Room Sydney
Part One of this interview can be found here. Pictured: Emily Maguire and I before the Sleepers Salon in October. I ask Maguire about the setting. Is it pertinent for this story to be set in Sydney? She says it probably could have been a few cities,...
