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February 27, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 246 – Miranda July, Wellington, 2016
When I rented Me And You And Everyone We Know back in 2005 I had no idea who Miranda July was – I was just renting a quirky indie film. But the writer, director and star of the film made an impression and a couple of years later I was buying her book of short […]Archive
October 18, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Roxane Gay: Difficult Women
Difficult Women Roxane Gay Grove Press Roxane Gay is working on a graphic novel, has released a striking, stunning memoir and there’s also this volume of short stories. A busy year. Yet another. All on the back of being a public intellectual with a mega-popular book of essays and other, earlier fiction. There are speaking […]Archive
July 3, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Nick Drnaso: Beverly
Beverly Nick Drnaso Drawn and Quarterly Drawn (mostly) in and around a set of boxes – this is American ennui, the suburban inertia, there’s no real desire to be better in these stories, no hope, no hype, but no coasting either – just people in the middle. Dreary, weird, detached lives with sexual repression barely […]Archive
March 9, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
NZ Festival Writers Week: Miranda July – Lost Child!
Miranda July: Lost Child! The Opera House Wednesday, March 9 When Miranda July was a young kid she wrote a book called Lost Child! She begins her Writers Week festival talk with slide-show images of the cover and reads a few pages from the book – she can’t read it all (“it was a trilogy”). […]Archive
October 21, 2015 by Simon Sweetman