In writing about writing, I’ve recently reviewed Hides by Rod Moody-Corbett for The Temz Review, here in their new summer issue.
In reading about writing, I have just begun Max Kerman’s Try Hard.
In reading about reading, I’ve just started Carlos Fuentes’s Great Latin American Novel (in translation by Brendan Riley).
And, in writing about reading, I’m still researching E.L. Konigsburg, whose From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler sparked many daydreams about being able to live undetected in a museum. (She wrote a lot!)
It was not yet summer, it was summer as it should be, hot but not sticky, the grass and new leaves as green as they would go, the verges of lilac along the railway line in exuberant flush.
Steven Heighton’s story “Everything Turns Away” in Instructions for the Drowning
I don’t seem to be getting notifications, but with a half hour to spare I thought I’d check to see what I missed. Loved the way you captured the atmosphere in The Beauty of Us – there were resonances with Gurnah’s After Lives, which I am currently reading, when a narrator in a new town finds himself in the midst of competing calls to prayer.
I didn’t get a notification about your comment either: too bad internet, we see through your shenangans!
Thank you kindly. I’m looking foward to seeing where you spotted some connections.
Moving on to May ’25
Jarman sounds amazing (and I am surprised how many Canadian references I get. I wonder how many I miss). Jarman, Hopkinson – I think you might have more exciting writers than we do in Aust.