Read, then partially listened to, an interview (dated 30th may 2025) in the New York Times recently with Kathryn Schulz, a staff writer with The New Yorker and a winner of the Pulitzer Prize . She’s interviewed by Ezra Klein about her 2022 book, ‘Lost & Found’. Eighteen months before Kathryn Schulz’s beloved father died,…
Category: books
Annie March’s ‘Eirenikon: Dictionary of a Reimagined Culture’
Tasmanian author Eleanor Vaughan, has released her fifth book, Eirenikon: Dictionary of a Reimagined Culture, under the name Annie March. A fledgling glossary exploring the whole, healed, holy, ecozoic culture I dream of bequeathing my grandchildren – all of them – sea-eagle eggs, Huon pine saplings, spawning phytoplankton, clear rivers running free… Excerpt: Chapter 21….
Small Press Network: 2022 Book of the Year Award—Shortlist
This year’s shortlisted titles for Small Press Network’s Book of the Year Award have been announced. They are: No Document by Anwen Crawford (Giramondo) Friends and Dark Shapes by Kavita Bedford (Text) Hometown Haunts edited by Poppy Nwosu (Wakefield Press) Permafrost by SJ Norman (UQP) Gravidity and Parity by Eleanor Jackson (Vagabond) Theory of Colours by Bella Li (Vagabond) Sexy Tales of…
Vale Hilary Mantel
British author Hilary Mantel, who won the Booker Prize twice for the first two books of her Wolf Hall trilogy, has died aged 70. I confess to not being familiar with her work, but her obituary speaks of her capacity for the historical novel—including the Wolf Hall trilogy wherein she writes of the 16th Century…
Book extract, Tad Friend’s ‘In The Early Times’
from ‘Literary Hub’, May 11th 2022 When Day poisoned his tea with five heaping spoonfuls of sugar, Addison warned him that his teeth would fall out and that he’d get diabetes—one of her periodic public service announcements denouncing meat, cigarettes, and hypocrisy. He just scowled at her. She scoops out half his sugar when he’s…