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Reviews

Encouraging disbelief: Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84

by Jennifer Peterson-Ward , December 8, 2011 • Leave a comment

People talk of ‘high concept’ fiction, but I’ll confess I’ve never understood what altitude has to do with it. Wouldn’t ‘narrow concept’ be closer to the truth? A high-concept novel takes one ingenious notion and bends everything else – character, narrative, style – around it. The result … Read more »

Reviews

Encouraging disbelief: Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84

by Jennifer Peterson-Ward , • 1 Comment

People talk of ‘high concept’ fiction, but I’ll confess I’ve never understood what altitude has to do with it. Wouldn’t ‘narrow concept’ be closer to the truth? A high-concept novel takes one ingenious notion and bends everything else – character, narrative, style – around it. The result … Read more »

Interviews

Recommended Reading: Samuel Rutter

by , August 16, 2010 • Leave a comment

Samuel Rutter is a new, exciting voice in Australian fiction. His story ‘Comfort Inn‘ appears in Issue Two of Kill Your Darlings, and he was recently published in The Big Issue’s fiction issue, alongside stalwarts such as Christos Tsiolkas, Linda Jaivin and Toni Jordan. Unfortunately, we’re losing … Read more »