Tag Archives: Emmett Stinson
Books
The Long and the Short of It: Affirm Press and short fiction
Last year my company, Affirm Press, an emerging publishing company with more ideals than commercial sense, embarked on an initiative called Long Story Shorts. It was a commitment to publish six individual collections of stories by new and emerging writers, the last of which – Two Steps … Read more
News
New Models for Book Publishing
Melbourne University’s Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia (IPRIA) is presenting a free public seminar in Melbourne in association with the Centre for Media and Communications Law (CMCL), Melbourne Business School (MBS) and the Publishing and Communications Program at the University of Melbourne. The book publishing business … Read more
Issue Three
Literature and politics: a debate
To be honest, I would have thought the problem for most writers in Australia is not that they come under fire from commissars like Genoways or Woodhead but rather that political and aesthetic questions are almost never discussed, at least in the public sphere. When, for instance, … Read more
Issue Three
Emmett Stinson’s ‘Literature, Life and How Creative Writing Programs are Ruining Everything, Apparently’
Earlier this year, Ted Genoways, editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review wrote that ‘most American writers seem to have forgotten how to write about big issues – as if giving two shits about the world has gotten crushed under the boot sole of postmodernism’. The article spawned … Read more
Podcast
“America is obsessed with its own failure”: Emmett Stinson
Emmett Stinson is an American who moved to Australia in 2004 – and it was only with distance from his homeland that he could write Known Unknowns, his debut collection. Podcast roadmap: Washington DC; corpses; Capgras syndrome; the best place to buy drugs in America; The Education … Read more
