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Emmett Stinson @emmettstinson.bsky.social · 20d

Ha! Love it.

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Emmett Stinson @emmettstinson.bsky.social · Aug 16

Looks like Paul Strand!

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Emmett Stinson @emmettstinson.bsky.social · Aug 12

I wasn't sure about this at first but I'm now 2/3rds through and enjoying it very much. I wish the writing was more stylish but could a novel even win the Miles Franklin if it weren't a little clunky in places?

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Emmett Stinson @emmettstinson.bsky.social · Aug 8

It’s perfectly good in its way! I like a fair bit of it. I certainly wouldn’t say Carey is a bad novelist (he isn’t), though I do kind of think he sold out but also was, like, really really good at it.

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Emmett Stinson @emmettstinson.bsky.social · Aug 8

The stories are great. The novels are good within the subgenre of the 80s/90s booker-winning novel. His talent is unquestionable.

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Emmett Stinson @emmettstinson.bsky.social · Aug 8

Those early stories are simply incredible and have been possibly more influential than any of the novels (which are mostly good). Glad to hear he was enjoyable in person—what a fantastic experience.

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Emmett Stinson @emmettstinson.bsky.social · Aug 8

This is interesting to me because in the article he pokes fun at his younger more avant-garde self who, he imagines, would criticise the writer he became. But his younger self was the better writer!

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Emmett Stinson @emmettstinson.bsky.social · Aug 8

Carey is one of Australia’s greatest short story writers just from his two early collections. He could have been one of our best writers. Instead, he became an internationally successful novelist. Hard to fault him for it, but still a loss for literature. www.theage.com.au/culture/book...

Peter Carey says he’s done writing novels: ‘You have to know when it’s enough’

The Australian literary giant has confirmed there won’t be another novel from him.

www.theage.com.au

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Emmett Stinson @emmettstinson.bsky.social · Aug 7

I remember being tired but not hungover!

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Emmett Stinson @emmettstinson.bsky.social · Aug 7

Yeah, that’s the bit that sounds familiar to me, too. I have come to accept that I experience most major life events in probably unhealthy dissociative states: looks like this was another one!

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Emmett Stinson @emmettstinson.bsky.social · Aug 7

I honesty can’t remember the graduation speech at all but that sounds right?

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Emmett Stinson @emmettstinson.bsky.social · Jul 28

There’s this: researchers.westernsydney.edu.au/en/publicati...

Rare books? : the divided field of reading and book culture in contemporary Australia

researchers.westernsydney.edu.au

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Emmett Stinson @emmettstinson.bsky.social · Jul 27

Helen Garner at the launch of HEAT in Perth

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Emmett Stinson @emmettstinson.bsky.social · Jul 25

I think there are plenty in genre fiction still, but fewer in lit fic if the yardstick is Mailer/Roth or even, like, Martin Amis. In Australia, Trent Dalton, Tim Winton, Robbie Arnott, Flanagan, Murnane are all well-known authors who write ‘masculine’ books, I think?

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Emmett Stinson @emmettstinson.bsky.social · Jul 19

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Alice Grundy @alicektg.bsky.social · Jul 17

Brilliant dataset on literary prizes - and a way to track trends and changes over time - from Katherine Binhammer and colleagues : data.post45.org/posts/britis...

Digital humanities are go.

Selected British Literary Prizes (1990-2022) – Post45 Data Collective

The Selected British Literary Prizes (SBLP) dataset contains information on nine major literary prizes in the U.K. from 1990 to 2022 and demographic information on 682 prize winners and shortlisted au...

data.post45.org

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Emmett Stinson @emmettstinson.bsky.social · Jun 12

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amethystclassic.bsky.social @amethystclassic.bsky.social · May 29

“…while Solzhenitsyn suffered in the gulag, Amerena’s characters suffer in an environment even more soul-destroying: Melbourne literary dinner parties.”
Golden.

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Emmett Stinson @emmettstinson.bsky.social · May 29

I reviewed Dominic Amerena's I Want Everything for Kill Your Darlings. www.killyourdarlings.com.au/article/aust...

Australia’s Literary Impostor Syndrome

In the absence of a thriving avant-garde, I Want Everything conjures an alternate history.

www.killyourdarlings.com.au

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · May 26

Just finished doing some public policy analysis for a UK group. The UK has a lot of lessons to teach Australia - stay the absolute fuck away from every policy prescription the UK undertook on every area of public policy over the last two generations. And completely ignore their campaign brainworms.