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Tag Archives: Jeanette Winterson
Writing from the margins
In his primer Astrologik (Vertical Pool, 1999), underground filmmaker and overall maverick Antero Alli argues against legitimising astrology. But not for the reasons you might expect. Astrology happens to be his profession. So it’s his peers who want to look … Continue reading
Posted in the life of the writer, the sceptic's guide to astrology & more, use & abuse of language
Tagged Antero Alli, archetypes, Astrologik, astrology, atheists, belief systems, capitalism, creative writing course graduates, diversity, doctorates, honesty, Jeanette Winterson, language, literature, oracles, originality, perspective, political correctness, religion, spiny sea urchins, truth
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Hairy Tales
Ever since I first read The Bloody Chamber (1979), Angela Carter’s influential collection of repurposed fairytales, I’ve been alert to the genre’s potential for subversion. Those old tales that had most deeply impressed a much younger me transmit grim messages … Continue reading
Posted in books to read before you die, the life of the writer
Tagged Angela Carter, Beauty’s Sister, book reviews, capitalism, consumerism, Emma Donoghue, factory farming, fairytales, gender politics, James Bradley, Jeanette Winterson, Kathy Acker, Kissing the Witch, literary criticism, novelettes, political correctness, publishing, Rapunzel, Sexing the Cherry, Stephen Wright, The Bloody Chamber, the Brothers Grimm, The Tale of the Hair
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In search of the bad girls of literature
Over the years, I’ve known two men who professed hatred of Germaine Greer – a woman neither man had ever met. But some men seem to think Ms Greer invented the scourge of feminism. My hatred of public figures whom … Continue reading
Posted in the life of the writer
Tagged AM Homes, bad boys, bad girls, Elfriede Jelinek, feminism, Germaine Greer, Howard Jacobson, Jeanette Winterson, Journey to the End of the Night, Julia Gillard, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, misogyny, Naomi Wolf, sexism, The Piano Teacher, Things You Should Know, Vagina
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Soul Trading: how dirty words like entrepreneur are undergoing a digital-age makeover
Is it possible, in the second decade of the 21st century, to establish oneself as an author without also being an entrepreneur? NB: I use the word author rather than writer, the Latin root of the former meaning originator and … Continue reading
Posted in the life of the writer, use & abuse of language
Tagged A Visit from the Goon Squad, Australian Author, Clementine Ford, consumerism, David Foster Wallace, digital age, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, Jeanette Winterson, Jennifer Egan, Jonathan Franzen, late capitalism, Lesley Cannold, Linda Jaivin, Milan Kundera, Newswrite, Paul Kingsnorth, social media, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Stone Gods
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Why Be Private When You Could Be Public? – reflections on Sydney Writers’ Festival
In the wake of another late-autumn mass orgy of words and ideas by the water, books lie sprawled across my bed – a volume of visionary poems Allen Ginsberg wrote in the ’50s, because someone told me ‘Howl’ changed his … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Mars-Jones, Anna Gibbs, Benito Di Fonzo, Benjamin Laird, Chris Flynn, Gideon Haigh, Jeanette Winterson, Jenny Turner, Kerryn Goldsworthy, Lemon Andersen, London Review of Books, Luka Lesson, Mark Pesce, Miles Merrill, poetry, Skye Loneragan, Sydney Writers' Festival, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
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Show & Tell: the best of both worlds
‘I was not the first one to find the book. There were notes in the margins…’ So begins ¶2 of Jeanette Winterson’s Art & Lies (1994). And this opening gambit amused me more because it applied to the book before me. … Continue reading
