Tag Archives: fiction

Spinning Around: The Kylie Playlist

Posted on 03/11/2024 by Angela Savage

I am thrilled to announce that Spinning Around: The Kylie Playlist, an anthology I co-edited and contributed to, has just been released into the world. Here’s the blurb: Australian icon Kylie Minogue is the musical muse for this sparkling new … Continue reading →

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Cultural highlights 2021

Posted on 31/12/2021 by Angela Savage

Normally at this time of year I post a ‘Top Reads’ or ‘Book Bingo’ type list. But this time around, inspired by my partner, Andrew Nette, who blogs at Pulp Curry, I’m extending this list to cultural highlights of 2021. … Continue reading →

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Writing across cultural boundaries in the contemporary era

Posted on 15/09/2016 by Angela Savage

Last week American novelist Lionel Shriver gave a keynote address at the Brisbane Writers Festival, in which she railed against ‘identity politics’ and the ‘concept of “cultural appropriation”‘, because they were hindering her ‘right to write fiction’. She argued that … Continue reading →

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On location: Bangkok 5

Posted on 03/01/2016 by Angela Savage

I’ve been reading Into the Badlands by British writer John Williams, an account of his two month road trip exploring ‘the underbelly of the American dream’, based on interviews with his favourite American crime writers. At one point, he drives through Chicago’s Hegewisch neighbourhood … Continue reading →

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Review: Sightseeing

Posted on 10/02/2014 by Angela Savage

As I’m always on the lookout for books by Thai writers available in English, I can’t believe it has taken me all this time to discover Sightseeing, Rattawut Lapcharoensap’s award-winning short story collection first published in 2005. I chanced upon a hardcover … Continue reading →

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Readin’ all over the world

Posted on 07/01/2013 by Angela Savage

Inspired by Bernadette’s Virtual Travelling post at Reactions to Reading, I thought I’d take stock of where in the world my reading took me in 2012. Bernadette managed to visit 21 countries in the course of reading 110 books in … Continue reading →