Move over Taylor Swift, I’m fangirling over Helen Garner and Sofie Laguna
Has Melbourne ever seen fangirling of the kind we saw last month when Taylor Swift visited Australia for her record-breaking…
Should authors shut up and let their books do the talking?
Sometimes I really hate it when writers open their mouths. I was reminded of this recently when I heard that…
20 years later, Monkey Grip is not what it seemed
Sometimes, re-reading a beloved book can be a mean shock. That was the case when I picked up Monkey Grip,…
Move over Kindle, I’ve got a new obsession: the audiobook
Multitasking has lost its appeal since I became a mother. As a child, it had meant the ability to hold…
Book review: Everywhere I Look by Helen Garner
It is easy to lose sight of Helen Garner’s way with words as she writes about everyday objects and happenings.…
What’s the big deal about Helen Garner?
Helen Garner had just been inducted into the Australian Book Industry Awards Hall of Fame and I was listening to…
The strangeness of death in life and literature
A woman died after being hit by a train at the crossing at the end of my street. V/Line announced…
Have we become lazy readers?
In a widely panned speech this month, author Howard Jacobson asserted that the problem with literature was not with books…
