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Space For Imagination: A conversation with Geraldine Brooks
Geraldine Brooks is the author of five novels. Her first, Year of Wonders, was an international bestseller, translated into more than 25 languages, and she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in fiction in...
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On judging the Most Underrated Book Award
On Friday 20 November, The Grapple Annual No. 1 (ed. Duncan Felton) was awarded the Small Press Network’s Most Underrated Book Award at a ceremony in Melbourne. Chad Parkhill, one of the award’s...
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Between You & Me: The New Yorker’s Mary Norris on publishing, editing and...
Mary Norris begins her chatty grammar guide and memoir, Between You & Me, by chronicling the odd jobs she held before she began working at the New Yorker in 1978. She delivered milk – awkwardly...
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Letting the Essays Do The Talking: Meghan Daum’s My Misspent Youth
In the introduction to her essay collection My Misspent Youth, Meghan Daum writes that as frank as her essays are, they ‘are not confessions’. The personal essay may have long defined Daum, but she is...
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Apples and Oranges: The false economy of the parallel importation debate
Image by Germán Poo-Caamaño I try, whenever possible, to buy Australian produce. I do this both because I think it is important to support Australian farmers and because I don’t believe that shipping...
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What We’re Reading: Readings staff share their November picks
Looking for a book recommendation? Staff from Readings bookshop share what they’ve been reading this month. Mark Rubbo, Managing Director I’ve travelled to Indonesia this month and read a remarkable...
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Killings Columnists Pick Their Best of 2015
As 2015 concludes, we also farewell our fabulous 2015 Killings columnists. They’ve entertained and delighted us all year with fortnightly columns on culture, politics and society, and now they offer us...
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You Could Burn a House Down: Todd Haynes’s Carol
‘I like to avoid labels. It is American publishers who love them.’ – Patricia Highsmith Originally titled The Price of Salt and published under the pseudonym Claire Morgan, Carol was Patricia...
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The Outsiders: The early stories of Truman Capote
Truman Capote’s early stories are filled with outsiders. Given he made a career of sharing stories of outcasts with mass audiences, this is unsurprising. First there was Other Voices, Other Rooms...
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Reading Marilyn reading Ulysses: when celebrities are photographed with books
Image credit: Eve Arnold In 1955, photographer Eve Arnold snapped a now-iconic image of American actress Marilyn Monroe, in her bathers on a Long Island playground. It is notable not only for her...
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