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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 […]

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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 […]

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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”). […]

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October 21, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

New Zealand Festival: 26 Feb-20 March 2016 (Wellington)

Wellington’s New Zealand Festival saw the launch of its 2016 line-up earlier tonight. Plenty of highlights, so be sure to check the link there for the details – Miranda July will perform a keynote that’s part-lecture/part-performance and will take the audience through her artist-career from struggling enthusiast to short-story writer, filmmaker and novelist. There’s events […]