Thanks to Catriona Menzies-Pike for publishing this essay.
Read moreNecessary Poet: Joseph Brodsky
A new podcast series from The Poet's Voice. I spoke about Brodsky.
Read more'Svetlana Alexeviech didn’t make it to the Royal Commission'
Extract from a public lecture given as part of the 2016 Wednesday Lecture Series Hosted by Raimond Gaita.
Read more'What the Essayist Spills', Sydney Review of Books
"What are essays for? They are for picking up ideas, feelings, forces in the air, still unnamed and amorphous, and giving them a foothold in language. "
Read moreMelbourne Prize for Literature
'No Skin', my essay revisiting the idea of traumascapes a decade later, has been shortlisted in the Melbourne Prize for Literature.
Read more‘The Hard Bits in Literary Non-Fiction’ @ Writers Vic
Theatrics: The Wit and Wisdom of Jewish Literature
I was commissioned by the Melbourne Jewish Writers Festival to write an original dramatic monologue.
Read moreNo Dogs, No Fruit, No Firearms, No Professors
I've been wanting to write this piece for years.
Read moreReview of Sarah Helm’s ‘If This Is a Woman’
Sarah Helm's If This Is a Woman is a masterpiece.
Read moreWomen of Letters
For Women of Letters I was asked to write a letter to my Rude Awakening.
Read moreSally Smart’s Shadow Trees Installation
Melbourne, how come you haven't noticed Sally Smart's Shadow Trees Installation!?
Read moreRoz Chast’s ‘Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?’
Loved Roz Chast’s book, surprised myself by loving it actually.
Read moreReview of 'Cowardice: A Brief History' by Chris Walsh
Cowardice is a big subject, meaty (as they say) and strangely little-thought-about. If you get far enough into my review of Chis Walsh's Cowardice: A Brief History, to spot ‘superficial’ in a sentence, please mentally replace it with ‘surfacy’ (subs!).
Michael Hofmann’s review of Martin Amis
No one writes criticism like Michael Hofmann.
Read more‘Thank You for Your Service’
One of the best nonfiction books I've ever read.
Read moreMelbourne Writers Fest
Talking with Rai Gaita and Wayne Macauley at the 2014 MWF.
Read moreWriting Exercise for Writers Vic
I'm not a fan of writing exercises but...
Read more‘It started with a Word’ at Melbourne Jewish Writers Festival
Here's the text of my 8-minute speech at the gala opening of the Melbourne Jewish Writers Festival 2014.
Read more‘This Narrated Life’
Are we really "story-telling animals"?
Read moreWriters Victoria ‘Memoir in a Year’
Research is always the best part!
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