Saturday, November 23, 2013

How to tell your father to drop dead -- reviews



How to tell your father to drop dead has been reviewed by Kerryn Goldsworthy in the Sydney Morning Herald (28 September 2013) and in the Melbourne Community Voice (20 November 2013, p. 22). Kerryn was kind enough to say that stories such as "On Rosa Luxemburgstrasse in a Vietnamese cafe" explore "the place where personal history and world history connect" and try "to negotiate some sort of personal truce or peace between the past and the present". The reviewer in Melbourne Community Voice gave the book four stars and says that I "write with a stark detachment to fill each phrase with meaning, as in the autobiographically styled 'Tusk' -- or move you to tears as in the collection's central story, 'Winter afternoon'."
The book is now available at more locations. Hares & Hyenas stock it in Melbourne, Books@Stones in Brisbane have it, and it is also available through the University Co-op Bookshop.

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

1960 Gay Pulp Fiction

I have a chapter in the forthcoming book edited by Wayne Drewey Gunn and Jaime Harker, published by University of Massacusetts Press.

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Gay Liberation

My work "Gay Liberation" is available on the Polari Journal online website. It tells of my engagement with this movement in the early 1970s.

Luke Davies' four plots for magnets

I reviewed Luke Davies four plots for magnets in Cordite Poetry Review. Read the review.

Monday, August 12, 2013

How to tell your father to drop dead

My new book, How to tell your father to drop dead, is available as an ebook from Authors Unlimited. It will soon be available in print form as well.It is available from The Bookshop, Darlinghurst, as well as other fine bookshops.