Author Archives: lisathatcher

Midnight in Paris – Woody’s letter to himself.

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Woody Allen likes to make films for himself and if other people like them too, well, that’s just darling. If he wants to  copy a Bergman, he does it. If he wants to bash on endlessly about his neurosis, he does it. if He wants to be asking the same questions about the invisible pathways between men […]

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Off to see Midnight in Paris this afternoon.

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OK – So I am off to see this tonight. I’m going to suspend my Woody “opinions” (like can we PLEASE make something other than an Annie hall remake?) and see if I can just get into the celebration of modernism. I mean, hey!  I’m up for a midnight visit with Gertrude Stein right? I’ll post a […]

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Bad as Me: Tom Waits and the new jazz.

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Bad as Me is Tom Waits fist studio album in seven years and the great news for Tom Waits fans is that it is a proper and decent return to style.  On Bad as Me we have the return of that tinkly piano we love so much. There is also more guitar work than more […]

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Julian Barnes wins the Mann Booker Prize for Fiction – Nice work everyone!

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The … er… really cool novel The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes has won the booker prize.  He wins 50,000 pounds as well as, no doubt, mega sales. I read this novel in one day – it’s a novella really, and you can check out my thoughts on the subject here.  I suspect, […]

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Care to throw a wager on a Booker winner?

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Its 4.44 am here in Sydney Australia and I’m 3 hours out from the announcement of the 2011 Booker Prize.  I’ve not had a chance to read all of the short list. I’ve read Julian Barnes The Sense of an Ending and a chunk of Patrick deWitt’s The Sisters Brothers. I have all the others […]

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Book trailer for the forthcoming The Tumors Made me Interesting by Matthew Revert.

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  I’m so excited about this novel. Just wait. Blogging about this soon.

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Norwegian Wood: Death, grief and sex.

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Ok – so I am now reading this because the film is so alluring, I decided to take on my first Haruki Mirukami novel. (The great love recommended it to me as well, and who can resist that combination?) This novel has been called impossible to adapt for film. It is the fifth of Mirukami’s […]

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The Sense of an Ending – Julian Barnes. Clues for the clueless.

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“you just don’t get it, do you? But then you never did get it.” And so reverberates the recurring theme around the head of One Anthony (Tony) Webster, a remarkably self-obsessed older male who cruises through life, largely by refusing to pause and reflect on the lives of others, therefore avoiding having to deal properly […]

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The Eye of The Storm – sex and molestation for those over 55.

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Review: The Eye of the Storm Like most Australians, I haven’t read any Patrick White. You see, it’s complicated for us. Australia suffers from the worst cultural cringe of almost any Western Nation (something our close neighbours the New Zealanders take great pleasure in observing) and to have an Australian awarded a Nobel “for an […]

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Le Zapororgue #10 Publishes ‘Three Little Ducks’

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My short story ‘Three Little Ducks’ was published in Le Zapororgue #10. You can pick up a copy of the magazine here. I was very proud to be published in this magazine. Not only is its talented publisher (Seb Doubinsky) a great friend of mine, but he is also a brilliant writer and literary activist. […]

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