Category: Publications
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On The Illogic of Kassel
“Didn’t I come to Kassel precisely to seek the aesthetic instant?” My review of The Illogic of Kassel by Enrique Vila-Matas (translated by Anne McLean and Anna Milsom and published by New Directions) has been published at Words Without Borders. Needless to say, it’s quite the thrill to have written for an organisation that champions Read.
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On ‘A fixed vocabulary’
My short piece – fiction? fragments? I don’t know – called A fixed vocabulary has been published by The Learned Pig. Words, words. Sometimes thinking about words – the right words, the wrong ones, their meanings slippery like fish – can be crippling. This piece came from that thinking – of not having the right Read.
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On ‘The Taipan’
My short story The Taipan has been published over at Berfrois. Ted “The Taipan” Barrie is a semi-professional boxer from the suburbs of Western Sydney. He will fight soon, but he probably shouldn’t. Big thanks to Russell Bennetts for giving it a chance. Read.
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On ‘Our Hero Explains’
My short story ‘Our Hero Explains’ appears in the Ex-Stasis issue of Vestiges, the irregular journal published by Black Sun Lit. ‘Our Hero Explains’ is a somewhat strange story for me; indeed, it’s been some time since I have even had reason to look at it. But some of the evocations – the location our Read.
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On ‘Eight questions for Gerald Murnane’
My interview with Gerald Murnane is now up at 3:AM Magazine. My introduction will hopefully go some way in telling the story of how this came together. Big thanks to Ivor Indyk from Giramondo for facilitating the exchange and to K.T. Kahn, my buddy and fellow editor at 3:AM, for the editorial work. And, of course, to Read.
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On an excerpt from Omnivore
Sleepingfish have published an excerpt from Omnivore. Published here are sections 5 – 8. Omnivore’s subtitle is “A creation myth” – that probably sums up best what I am attempting with the piece and with the personage of Figure. Big thanks to Derek. Read.
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On ‘Black chalk with touches of white on brown paper’
I have a short story titled “Black chalk with touches of white on brown paper” in issue two of Gorse. [Read an extract here.] Gorse, edited by Susan Tomaselli, is a literary magazine out of Ireland that carries on the tradition of the avant-garde, Modernist “little magazine” of the early twentieth century (Niall McCormack pays Read.
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On Trieste by Daša Drndić
My review of Trieste by Daša Drndić is up at 3:AM Magazine. In case I don’t make myself clear in the review, Trieste is an exceptional novel. It’s been some time since I read anything with this kind of power, or something that felt so much bigger than me and my neighbourhood; I don’t mind Read.
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On ‘Hellhole’
Been a busy ten days: after having a review of some recent Australian fiction published by Entropy, and a piece of flash fiction published by Seizure, Black Sun Lit have published some prose by me titled Hellhole – read that here. Favourite part of the piece? I like where it ends up. I like how Read.
Tristan Foster 