Get ready for new books from Japanese superstar novelist Haruki Murakami, Nobel Prize recipient Annie Ernaux and two-time Miles Franklin winner Alex Miller.
Get ready for new books from Japanese superstar novelist Haruki Murakami, Nobel Prize recipient Annie Ernaux and two-time Miles Franklin winner Alex Miller.
Alex Miller s memoir pays a debt of gratitude and love
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Alex Miller s memoir pays a debt of gratitude and love
By Michael McGirr
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Allen & Unwin, $29.99
Max Blatt was more than a friend to Alex Miller and, by extension, more than a friend to the literature of his adopted homeland, Australia. It was Max Blatt who enabled Miller to find the iron in his soul that has led to a writing career spanning 40 years or more. He was able to reach beyond Miller’s diffidence to inspire him to take his craft as seriously.
While it’s impossible to reduce this year to six books, the selection of works we have chosen for him covers some of the most topical issues of 2020 coronavirus, climate change, Aboriginal lives matter, migration, female workforce participation, and recession all in personal and powerful ways.
How The Dark Gets In, by Clare Wright
Meanjin
truly captures the sense of lockdown for Victorians, and reflects on the impact of the coronavirusmore broadly on Australia’s narrative. It articulates the universal, unsettled feeling of the second lockdown through Clare Wright’s experiences:
Put simply, L1 was all about the baking; L2 is just cooked … This time, we’re looking beyond the kitchen shelves and into the pantries of our souls