Six months after giving birth to my second child, blogging now feels just as exhilarating and subversive as sneaking out of the house after 6pm with a small handbag that contains no nappies. Ah, the extravagant (guilty) pleasures of early …
Now this is truly exciting! The cover of the anthology of Australian female memoir Rebellious Daughters, which I’m co-editing with the author Maria Katsonis, is finally ready! The book will be out in August but already I can look …
Showing-and-hiding Emotions in Memoir: A Guest Post from Josianne Behmoiras
Some memoirs are written from the bottom of a heart that has been burdened with an unresolved story. Such was my memoir, Dora B (reprinted with a new title, My Mother Was a Bag Lady), in which I wrote …
So recently I blogged about writing in cafes, and then an American writer who read that post and who blogs about writers writing in cafes (!) asked to interview me and to have my photo where I’m seen writing in …
Am I a provocateur? I don’t know, but the writer and academic Naomi Stekelenburg who interviewed me for her magazine Give It Mouth seems to think so and I wouldn’t argue, of course… It’s here if you like to read: …
On Writers and Cafes
When internationally renowned Israeli novelist Aharon Appelfeld was barely nine years old, he escaped a Nazi concentration camp in Romania, surviving by moving from one hiding place to another for the next three years. As an adult, still haunted by …