A Polish Writer in Exile: An Interview with Etgar Keret
March 17, 2016
At New Zealand Festival Writers Week, the Israeli short fiction writer opens up about his first foray into narrative non-fiction, The Seven Good Years.
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“I feel like I was born for the Internet”
February 11, 2016
Mallory Ortberg, satirist and co-founder of The Toast, talks humour, femslash, and her conflicting soft spot for Ayn Rand ahead of New Zealand Festival Writers Week.
A Slut for Beauty:
An Interview with Sarah Jane Barnett
October 22, 2015
Inside Sarah Jane Barnett’s remarkable new book of poems, WORK.
Anna Smaill on The Chimes
September 15, 2015
On the eve of this year’s Man Booker Prize shortlist announcement, nominee Anna Smaill talks in-depth about her captivating debut novel, The Chimes.
The Lumière Reader presents
“Paper Boat”
September 7, 2015
Alex Mitcalfe Wilson charts the journey a book follows when it is published today, telling a story of creativity and commitment through the words of those who carry a text through each step of that path: writers, editors, designers, printers, binders, booksellers, and librarians.
On Literary Pilgrimage
August 28, 2015
An account of living and writing in residence at Orlando’s Jack Kerouac House.
This must be the place + Anatomy
August 17, 2015
Two new poetry collections by Annabel Hawkins and Jamie Trower from boutique publisher Makaro Press.
Uncomfortable Realities
June 2, 2015
An audience with Xinran, Helen MacDonald, and Carol Ann Duffy; plus, final thoughts on the Auckland Writers Festival.
To describe with intense clarity
May 25, 2015
The Auckland Writers Festival refracted through a dialogue with Haruki Murakami interviewer John Freeman.
“The music of being human”
May 21, 2015
Auckland Writers Festival guests David Mitchell, Morris Gleitzman, Tim Winton, and Carol Ann Duffy offer a salient reminder of how writing gives us hope.
“Sometimes we are greater than ourselves when we write”
May 20, 2015
At this year’s Auckland Writers Festival, the glass was not just half-full, but brimming, overflowing.
“I wasn’t ready to be a bestselling author”—Haruki Murakami
May 19, 2015
Haruki Murakami talks cats, enemies, and his subconscious at the Auckland Writers Festival.
On Where the Rekohu Bone Sings
May 12, 2015
A conversation about damaging myths, Moriori ancestry, and fluid cultural identities with novelist Tina Makereti.
Auckland Calling
March 30, 2015
An Auckland Writers Festival 2015 preview, with selected highlights by our editors and contributors.
An interview with Anna Jackson: I, Clodia and Other Portraits
February 3, 2015
On poetry, portraiture, and mourning a Dorking.
A Birthday Lecture
October 16, 2014
An account of the fifth annual Birthday Lecture of the Katherine Mansfield Society at the Keynes Library, 46 Gordon Square, London.
BOT OR NOT:
An interview with Oscar Schwartz
September 29, 2014
A conversation with the Melbourne-based poet and researcher on robot poetry and what humans can learn from computers.
Bogart and beyond
August 18, 2014
A catch up with film culture tsar Adrian Wootton, back at the Melbourne International Film Festival to talk Humphrey Bogart, Patricia Highsmith, John le Carré, and Katharine Hepburn.
The Fiddler and the Arborist
June 3, 2014
An interview with poets Steven Toussaint and Lee Posna.
My Dinner With Gary
May 31, 2014
Chewing the fat with Gary Shteyngart at the Sydney Writers’ Festival, plus some highlights from Vivid Sydney’s opening week.