Anthony Panegyres on writing and reading

A Tiny Bit Political: Economic Reform and Mining I saw some great acts at the Perth Writers' Festival over the weekend and it's...

Recent Reads: Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe and  Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham  On Claw of the Conciliator' by Gene W...

24 'standout' short stories from my 2011 reading In 2011, I read 96 short stories, many of them longer short stories and novelettes...

Tales of Old Earth by Michael Swanwick. Michael Swanwick is one of the more adventurous writers in the already imaginative field of specul...

Brief Book Review: New Australian Stories 2 Ed: Aviva Tuffield (2010) Both Scribe Publications ( New Australian Stories) and Black Inc....

Books Read 2011 A Dance with Dragons George R.R. Martin On Writing Stephen King The Last Werewolf Glen Duncan The Bloody Chambe...

Istanbul: The Imperial City by John Freely & On Writing by Stephen King Over the past decade I have been an avid reader of Ottoman his...

On the Simple vs Continuous Tense A couple of years ago at a writing workshop, I heard a book reviewer of a prominent Australian newspaper...

Dotdotdash Subscriberthon I confess that I no longer subscribe to Dotdotdash but before you condemn me to the gallows (this is about a sub...

More Great Short Stories The whole concept is a little daggy and all in good fun. I'll reitirate that the before mentioned stories con...

"Rachel in Love " by Pat Murphy  "Rachel in Love" by Pat Murphy is one of my all-time favourites. Once again...

Recent Reads and Brief Comments on The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe; The Quantity Theory of Insanity by Will Self; Flight by Sh...

It did not take me long to renew my Overland   Literary Journal  subscription. The quality of the journal and its frequently courageou...

Recent Book Buys and Recent Reads Despite my self-imposed ban, I bought again: evidence that I would have failed as a Spartan. Readers ...

 "The Bordello in Faerie" by Michael Swanwick I have previously mentioned that Swanwick is a courageous and innovative write...