Anthony Panegyres on writing and reading

Brief Book Review: The Confidential Agent by Graham Greene A former lecturer in romance languages, D is now a middle-aged confidenti...

 "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez After a storm, a married couple discover an old man with enormou...

The short story is an invaluable vehicle for writers to develop their craft. In terms of voice, style and structure, the form allows for so...

HorrorScope Review: ASIM #50, Andromeda #50 Mark Smith-Briggs, the editor of HorrorScope and a short story writer too, has written a revi...

I recently bought from my two favourite Perth bookstores: Planet Books (Mt Lawley) and New Edition (Fremantle and Northbridge). I still bu...

Book Review: The Lovely Bones by A. Sebold Memoir in Fiction It was difficult not to be hooked by the second line of the novel: ‘I...

The Great Raven: ASIM Issue #50

ASIM #50, The Wine Endures I am not a genre writer as such - and I’m certainly not a fan of labelling authors - but I'll confess to fe...

Dotdotdash Magazine It is not hard to promote an excellent product: Dotdotdash is an accessible literary journal with an innovative layou...

Brief Review: In Evil Hour by Marquez Marquez’ early hook entailing a murder of passion over a posted lampoon made me eagerly rip th...

 I don’t always have the time to engorge myself in a novel. Now and then, I enjoy its little sibling, the less committal novella. T...

A lot of my friends ask for my favourite novels - and I often ask them too. So here are some from my list: Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolk...

Review: How the Dead Live by Will Self First Published: 2000 Will Self is one of the super intellects of modern literature. The qu...

I read fewer books in 2010, due to three reasons:  I'm taking careful note of writers' prose: its construction; what tools the au...

First Post! Writing and reading. With my second publication I was told by the editor that they'd like some sort of digital face....