Well – its been announced and I am rather pleased to see that except for Deborah Levy’s Swimming Home I haven’t read any of the short list. I’m pleased because this means I have five wonderful books to hurtle through before the big dinner on Tuesday the sixteenth of October. Hopefully I can come up with my suggestions before the […]
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Jack Killed Jack – Thomas De Angelis writes for his contemporaries (Sydney Fringe Festival)
posted by lisathatcher
I just spent a very enjoyable hour and a half at the Italian Forum Cultural Centre watching a nice little piece of theatre written and performed by a small group of twenty-year-olds. The play is largely about being twenty, and being twenty in the face of a decidedly non twenty-year-old tragedy. Seven young people decide to spend a weekend […]
Sydney Fringe Festival
posted by lisathatcher
Hello everyone… Well I am out of hibernation now and looking forward to giving you tons of music reviews, film reviews and Booker Long List feedback. But most exciting of all at the moment is the Sydney Fringe Festival that started on Thursday this week. I’ve booked myself up for lots of goodies: Some live music, […]
Introduction to a Magazine called “Henry” – and a call for Submissions.
posted by lisathatcher
“HENRY” is a new bi-yearly magazine in Le Zaporogue’s free press collection. It is a magazine about literature, arts, music, philosophy and those who make it by those who make it, in other words, writers, artists, musicians and philosophers. It will be a heartfelt magazine about passion and creation, far from the traditional academic literary […]
On a writing break
posted by lisathatcher
Hello lovely readers! I’m working to a rather daunting deadline just at the moment and am not attending to other things. This blog among them. I don’t like “apology for not posting” posts, so I will instead say, expect me back next week. Monday if i am on track, Wednesday if I am way […]
Writing for Dusted Magazine
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I promise I won’t do this every time there is a review posted, but I am pleased to let my readers here know that my first review for Dusted Magazine is up, and you can check it out here. I’ve been following Dusted Magazine for a while now and am thrilled to be a part […]
Wire’s 100 Records that set the world on fire while no one was listening. 96 – 100
posted by lisathatcher
God I love these Wire posts. I’ve been writing up a petit little storm in this corner of the globe for the last couple of weeks and the blog and all its accoutrements have been suffering. I don’t listen to music when I write literature – too much head noise to capture – so its […]
The Lady Vanishes – Hitchcock makes something out of nothing
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There is no reason why The Lady Vanishes should be the success it is. I’ve heard the film referenced in pop culture for years and have never watched it till last weekend. My reason for watching, without ever having seen the film, is that I am working on a novel, and the film is central […]
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Francopherenia – James Franco on the complexities of being James Franco (Sydney underground Film Festival)
posted by lisathatcher
At any other time in the history of television, trying to convince the world your guest starring appearances on General Hospital are a work of art would be impossible. However we live in a time of tolerance when it comes to pulp media. There is a new cultural fascination for what was once derided and […]