Tag: writing
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On ‘Sundown’
My short story or fragment Sundown has been published in the final edition of RIC Journal for 2018. It’s always always a serious pleasure to be in RIC, a singular journal that continues to do its very own thing. Long may that continue. With thanks to S, as usual. Read.
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On ‘Two Parts by Matthew Turner’
My poem Two Parts by Matthew Turner has been published in RIC Journal. Two Parts is a response to Matthew Turner’s evocative poem Redivider, Redivider, a poem that was published in RIC last month and which I read and read and wished I had written. So I wrote something by Matthew. Big thanks to Saudamini as always, Read.
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On ‘Faulkner on the Balcony’
Wrote a few things I probably shouldn’t have while in Melbourne last month for Burning House Press’s September, impressions of home edition. It’s a story now – called Faulkner on the Balcony. With thanks and gratitude to Rachael. Read.
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Book update #2
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On ‘Impossible Friends’
My essay Impossible Friends has been published by the good folk at Meanjin. I use the essay to tell the stories of four writers: Kyle Coma-Thompson, Aashish Kaul, Saudamini Deo and Daniela Cascella. They are each smart and talented and good people who I only know because I write and they write and while that’s Read.
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On ‘Scenes from Gerald Murnane’s Golf Club’
I wrote a piece for the Paris Review called Scenes from Gerald Murnane’s Golf Club – on the Murnane symposium last December, organised by Western Sydney University. Symposiums aren’t typical PR fodder, but this one was at a tiny golf club in Murnane’s country home-town, and was both a celebration of the writer and, quite Read.
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On ‘John’
I am delighted but saddened to have a new piece of fiction titled John in Tincture Journal – delighted that Tincture’s tireless editor Daniel Young gave the story a home, saddened because this is the journal’s final issue. The local literary culture is unquestionably poorer for it; apart from being a top guy, Dan edited Read.
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On ‘Stone Fur Skin Fish Blood’
Delighted to have a new piece of fiction titled Stone Fur Skin Fish Blood up at Fluland. It’s also been added to the Featured section on the site! The idea for this piece – a palmful of fragments coughed up by the subconscious – came to me at 4am while staying at a friend’s house in Read.
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On Fleur Jaeggy’s I Am the Brother of XX
My review of I Am the Brother of XX by Fleur Jaeggy (translated by Gina Alhadeff and published by And Other Stories + New Directions) is now up at The Lifted Brow. Jaeggy was a Schwob fan (she rewrites his life in These Possible Lives) so having this review appear a day or two after Read.
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On Marcel Schwob’s The King in the Golden Mask
My review of the The King in the Golden Mask by Marcel Schwob (translated by Kit Schluter and published by Wakefield Press) has been published at Music & Literature. Enjoyed this fine little collection – the first complete English edition – so much I thought writing about it could be useful, to – as usual Read.
Tristan Foster 