I just wrote 300 words without coming to any sort of point, so I’m going to start over and get to the matter straight away: crying. I’ve been crying a lot lately. I’ve done it ever since I was a child. What child doesn’t cry and scream, you ask? Well, quite. But I’ve always been…
As a special offer leading up to the Melbourne Writers Festival, I have Crying in the Car on sale for a very special price (and no postage!) at 40% off RRP. Click here if you would like to purchase it. I’d be happy to sign it if you like, just ask. This offer will end…
If you’ve been watching the calendar as closely as I have, you perhaps will already have noticed that we’ve passed the halfway mark of winter. Of course anyone who lives here, or further south, knows that is absolute bollocks. The weather doesn’t significantly improve until October. In my head, I think of winter as ‘the…
The program for the 2014 Melbourne Writers Festival is revealed to the public today. I was lucky enough to see it in advance and have been hanging out to share some of my picks for the sessions I particularly want to attend. It was hard to cull them down, but I did my best. They’re…
Let me begin by talking about desks. Back when we were at university in Bathurst (yes, this is how far I’m going back!), Adam bought a second-hand table from a charity shop that was located just behind his flat. This table wasn’t much to look at – a utilitarian, boring, commercial piece that would look…
I’ve done a few teasers about this over the months, and there’s been some delays, but on Friday I offically kicked off my #miscpoetry project. I’m the first person to say that social media can be used for creative/artistic purposes, so I thought I ought to actually do the same, in this instance along similar…
Did you know there are people who do all the right things after a huge night out – say, get a taxi or a lift home – and don’t realise that they’re still over the limit the next morning when they’re about to hop in their car? A recent NRMA survey showed that only 18…
(Apart from reading a similar tower of books like this, which looks awfully tempting.) Those of you familiar with my running past will know that apart from not being very fast – albeit persistent – I also suffered the misfortune of a sacroiliac joint strain late last year. It was a nagging, painful injury and…
It’s been a good month on the book front, I’ve got to say. I nabbed a brand new copy of Michael Faber’s Under the Skin from the library. First published a decade ago, the novel has had a revival thanks to the movie adaptation starring Scarlett Johansson. I’d heard a lot of buzz about that,…
