This month brings lyrics from Kazuo Ishiguro, a Miles Franklin winner’s latest novel, the return of Miranda July, a surprise sequel from Colm Toibin and spacey stories from Ceridwen Dovey.
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An Aussie musician has claimed Australians are not laid-back like foreigners think and instead lie to themselves and project a false persona to the world.
The pauses in Sandy's monologues were worthy of Beckett. Critics acclaimed a ‘darkness reminiscent of Philip Larkin’, ‘Ezra Pound with the lights out’ and a pervading ‘Checkovian melancholy’. Barry more prosaically described Sandy as the voice of a different and vanishing Melbourne 'talking in its sleep'