Essays, bits & pieces

Spring 2011

“Never stop looking”, an essay on photographing the dead and dying, for Griffith Review

July 2011
Review of two books about Facebook for The Australian - link has expired.

May 2011
For the love of bridges: Hart Crane and me, Bookslut

March 2011
Brisbane Courier-Mail column

February 2011
“Sex, verbs and rock ‘n’ roll” (on musician’s memoirs, for the Sydney Morning Herald): page 1page2

Adam Ross’s Mr Peanut scares horror guru Stephen King

Brisbane Courier-Mail column

January 2011
Brisbane Courier-Mail column

December 2010
Bible takes leap of faith in e-publishing, Courier-Mail 4-5 December

Brisbane Courier-Mail books and publishing column

October 2010
Brisbane Courier-Mail books and publishing column

September 2010
WriteStuff magazine, “Some Thoughts on Memoir”
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Brisbane Courier-Mail books and publishing column

August 2010
One magazine (Scotland), Sydney Notes From the Writers Festival

Brisbane Courier-Mail books and publishing column

November 2009
“Smells Like Teen Spirit”, extempore journal of art, literature, and improvisation, Issue 3, November 2009.

Review of US trumpeter-composer Charles Tolliver with the Jazzgroove Mothership Orchestra on 28/10/09 at The Basement, Sydney, “A Cool Colony of Emperor Penguins”

August 2009
“Jazz Musicians and Writers Meet in Harlem” – a feature article forJazz Australia on a symposium at the National Jazz Museum on the relationship between jazz writing and jazz music.

June 2009
Sydney PEN Magazine President’s Report, “Our mission is to tell the stories”
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January 2009
Psychologies magazine (UK), “First Person” (adapted extract from The Young Widow’s Book of Home Improvement)
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November 2008
Sydney PEN magazine editorial

May 2008
Vogue (Australia), “With Compliments”
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October 2007
Time Out New York, “Breaking the Ice”

Winter 2007
Griffith Review, “Sex and the Single Bed”