Tag Archives: Gideon Haigh
From the Editors
Failing Critical Failure: The problem with engaging in real conversation about literary criticism
It was a great privilege to be invited on the panel for ‘Critical Failure: Books’ at the Wheeler Centre on Tuesday evening. The session – which was one of four discussions on the state of critical writing in Australia – originated, according to the Wheeler Centre, from … Read more
News
Gideon Haigh’s ‘Sleaze-hounds and Artists on Oath: The State of Australian Biography’
By popular demand, Gideon Haigh’s ‘Sleaze-hounds and Artists on Oath: The State of Australian Biography’ is now available in full on our website. Gideon recently appeared on The Book Show with biographer Professor Jil Roe to discuss Australian biography, and will be speaking at the National Library … Read more
Events
‘We tend to genuflect to writing’: Kill Your Darlings’ reviewing panel
On Wednesday night, for our ‘Feeding the Hand that Bites’ panel, Issue One Contributors Gideon Haigh and Anthony Morris, Kill Your Darlings Editor Rebecca Starford and Associate Editor Jo Case held forth on reviewing culture in Australia. Among the issues discussed were the distinction between reviewing and criticism, … Read more
From the Editors, Issue One
‘It’s one thing to kill your darlings, quite another to throw the baby out with the bathwater’ – Martin Shaw’s response to Gideon Haigh
It would appear that Gideon Haigh found it irresistible – when invited to write a piece for a new magazine called Kill Your Darlings – to mount a wholesale assault not just on his putative target, (alleged) hack reviewers, but the wider Oz literary culture itself – … Read more
Events, Issue One, Press
Gideon Haigh’s ‘Feeding the Hand that Bites: The Demise of Australian Literary Reviewing’ [excerpt]
Everybody wants to go to heaven, as they say, but nobody wants to die. So it is in the world of book reviewing. Everyone is in favour of frank and fearless criticism, up to the point where a work of theirs might come off the worse for … Read more
Press
‘Truth and elegance soured’: Susan Wyndham on Gideon Haigh’s Kill Your Darlings piece
Susan Wyndham of the Sydney Morning Herald wrote about Kill Your Darlings on Saturday: Among the essays, fiction, reviews, cartoons and interview with Sarah Waters, Undercover was most curious to read Gideon Haigh’s piece Feeding the Hand that Bites on “the demise of Australian literary reviewing”. The … Read more
