Hello there all my dear readers and fellow writers, This blog has grown quite dramatically in the last twelve months. It has become a respected review source, so much so that my name is now added to media and press events listings for music, theatre and film – which means in the future I will […]
Category Archives: Articles
December
01
Call for Submissions: I’d like to review your self published literary novel.
posted by lisathatcher
November
20
Is Genre Fiction Art? Pt 3: Genre as morality and defender of truth.
posted by lisathatcher
This post has multiple parts. For part one, please go here. Before I launch into my defence of the strange suggestion that genre fiction is the defender of truth and morality and therefore the very opposite of what art is meant to be, let me make a quick statement. By genre fiction, I mean fiction […]
November
19
Is Genre Fiction Art? Pt 2: The difference between genre and literary fiction. (Article)
posted by lisathatcher
This is a multiple part article. For the first part, which serves as a brief introduction, please go here. In the first part of his discussion, I posed the central question: Is genre fiction art? I mentioned a lot of different points, splattered around as if I had paint-gunned my thoughts onto the blog page. In this […]
November
16
The Venetian Twins – An Australian take on an Italian Classic. (Theatre review)
posted by lisathatcher
I don’t possess the adequate theatre knowledge to give you the lowdown on all the clever internal theatre references in The Venetian Twins, but this doesn’t mean I missed the spirit of them. I haven’t seen The Venetian Twins before and somehow I missed studying the play at school. I’m sorry for that because Enright and Clarke’s script […]
November
14
Is Genre fiction art? Pt 1: Why do so many of us want to write? (Article)
posted by lisathatcher
More than ever before, if a person wants to write a book, they can. The changes to publishing brought about by the digital age are something we are constantly discussing. We have seen these changes affect film and music before writing, but one of the differences between the previous artistic mediums and writing is: 1. Everyone thinks they can write […]
November
12
Great Expectations (theatre review) – Bakehouse lives up to the perils of ambition
posted by lisathatcher
“Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!” Miss Havisham. Great Expectations is my favourite Dickens – I love […]
Savage in Limbo – John Patrick Shanley and Workhorse Theatre company ask should I stay or should I go?
posted by lisathatcher
In the world of Plato’s cave, truth is an elusive and frightening thing. Because it finds us, we are in a perpetual dance with it – a dance of desire, awareness, shock and avoidance. This pattern plays itself out within us unless we decide to embrace our own truth and risk the accompanying fear and move forward […]
The Knowledge – Pantsguys and John Donnelly reveal a tougher side of life.
posted by lisathatcher
John Donnelly has worked in various primary and secondary schools across London, Essex and Kent, including programmes aimed at curriculum development, Irish and Romany Travellers, enterprise, literacy, sex education, addictions, student voice. In an interview for The Guardian, he says: “I’ve mostly worked in schools in Kent and Essex, where there has been a huge […]
Hilary Mantel wins the Booker again
posted by lisathatcher
Well, it’s a post on the run, but I thought I would share with you all that the very very clever Hilary Mantel has won the 2012 Man Booker Prize for fiction. This is her second win, making her the only English writer to win the prize twice and the only winner to ever win […]
Eugène Atget – Old Paris: photography of life at its most still.
posted by lisathatcher
I was lucky enough to attend the Eugène Atget exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW a couple of weeks back. I have collected A few of the images here. These have simply been collected from a search. I have linked them all back to the exhibition web page. If anyone sees any image represented her […]
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