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Category Archives: books; authors; Australia
I’m not a chick lit writer but….
Fifty Shades of Chick Lit at the 2013 Perth Writers Festival, ABC Big Ideas Anita Heiss, Zoe Foster and me discussing why there is no such thing as men’s writing. Was Jane Austen the world’s first chick lit writer? (Answer: … Continue reading
Posted in Anita Heiss; Zoe Foster; 2013 Perth Writers Festival; Fifty Shades of Chick Lit, books; authors; Australia, The Stella Prize; gender and fiction, writing
Tagged Anita Heiss; Avid Reader: Paris; women writers; aboriginal women, Anita Heiss; Zoe Foster; 2013 Perth Writers Fesitval, books; authors; Australia, Fifty Shades of Chick Lit, The Stella Prize; women's fiction
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Add your own lover!
Inspired by the beautiful photographs that readers have sent me regarding their own hundred lovers, I’m inviting anyone who cares to send to me a pic of a lover, and I’ll post it here. And here’s the first pic, which Pam … Continue reading
In praise of Helen Garner….thanks to Edwina Shaw
Edwina Shaw on Helen Garner\’s THE SPARE ROOM Very chuffed to get mentioned in the same breath as Helen Garner in last weekend’s THE AUSTRALIAN. I’ve been belatedly alerted to Brisbane writer Edwina Shaw writing on her favourite novel. She … Continue reading
Time and the writer
FOR A WHILE now I’ve had this little private theory that writers experience time differently to other folk. Not in a better way, or a superior way, just in a different way. My theory goes that, unlike most, writers (and … Continue reading
How stories are made
“The story does not exist as a story until the writer makes it.” Helen Garner A story is not lying there on the ground like a pebble, waiting to be picked up. Reasons to love Helen Garner, or why a … Continue reading
The streets of my town
These are my streets, BrizVegas. And click on The Go Betweens to listen to the songs of those streets. The Go Betweens
On being a babe….or not
I see I am not the only one to find Pamela Stephenson’s comments on the ABC’s Q and A panel this week so fascinating. An actor, sex therapist, comedian and wife of Billy Connolly, I heard a long time ago … Continue reading
Posted in books; authors; Australia, Helen Garner; Doris Lessing; Hilary McPhee; Kate Grenville, Life; birth; marriage; divorce, women and ageing, writing
Tagged books; authors; Australia, Doris Lessing, Kate Grenville; Helen Garner; Australian women writers, Life; death; marriage; divorce, Q and A; Pamela Stephenson, women and ageing
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Revisiting: the art of fiction
Ahead of my Melbourne Writers’ Festival events this weekend, and the Brisbane Writers’ Festival the following week, I thought I’s re-post the excellent Ms Sandra Hogan’s interview in Perilous Adventures It’s about writing, and life, and the art of fiction, … Continue reading
Posted in books; authors; Australia, My Hundred Lovers, The Stella Prize; gender and fiction, writing
Tagged books; authors; Australia, Perilous Adventures; Sandra Hogan; Susan Johnson on writing, Sandra Hogan; Susan Johnson; Perilous Adventures; Australian literary interviews, The Stella Prize; women's fiction
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Here is the news….
Where to start? Haven’t had a chance to catch my breath, hence dearth of blog posts…apologies. Well, let’s start with last weekend at the Byron Bay Writers’ Festival. I hear that previous festivals have been waterlogged and muddy but, hey, … Continue reading
Posted in books; authors; Australia, BrizVegas; home; travel; life, My Hundred Lovers, Queensland, recto-vaginal fistula; Dr Catherine Ham;lin; fistula clinic; A Better Woman; Petja Grafenauer; Polish translation, writing
Tagged ANZlitlovers; Susan Johnson; Australian authors; Australian, books; authors; Australia, Byron Bay Writers' Festival; Ailsa Piper; Jane Caro; A Better Woman, Life; death; marriage; divorce, writing; endings; My Hundred Lovers; titles; women writers
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On reviewing….
Here’s the stinker I told you was coming….I hate to say I told you so, but…. I’m posting the two latest reviews because I think they clearly prove my point about reviewing, reading etc, in that both reviews say as … Continue reading
Posted in book reviewing; Meanjin, books; authors; Australia, Gillian Dooley; Emily Maguire; The Australian, My Hundred Lovers, writing
Tagged ANZlitlovers; Susan Johnson; Australian authors; Australian, book titles; Australian authors; Susan Johnson; My Hundred Lovers, books; authors; Australia, Emily Maguire; Gillian Dooley, The Stella Prize; women's fiction
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