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Lies, damned lies, and fiction, Mark Broatch

Posted on February 24, 2018 by NZ Books

False River Paula Morris Penguin, $35.00 ISBN 9780143771630 A couple of years ago I asked English essayist and novelist Geoff Dyer if he thought a man he and his wife picked up while driving through a desert in the United…

Tagged with: Autumn 2018, Issue 121, Mark Broatch, Paula Morris, Penguin Books
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review

A better class of hoon, Mark Broatch

Posted on September 1, 2001 by NZ Books

Stonedogs Craig Marriner Random House, $26.95, ISBN 1869414764 I donned my beanie before writing this review. It seemed only fitting. Part of the challenge of this book is its subject matter: drunken, stoned hoons, racing around the country in an…

Tagged with: Craig Marriner, Issue 55, Mark Broatch, Random House, Spring 2001
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review

Eschatology and escapism, Mark Broatch

Posted on December 27, 1999 by NZ Books

Technology Eschatology comes into its own as a discipline around the fin de siècle. And the populace’s anxious murmurs reach a far higher pitch when the changeover involves le millénium. Such countdowns have always involved some level of unease, despite…

Tagged with: Issue 41, Mark Broatch
Posted in Comment, Essays

Romancing the Net, Mark Broatch

Posted on June 5, 1998 by NZ Books

Safe Sex: an e-mail romance Linda Burgess and Stephen Stratford Godwit, $24.95, ISBN 1 86962 01 9 4 There are at least two other e-mail romance novels in circulation, both American: Stephanie Fletcher’s 1996 E-mail: A Love Story and Nan…

Tagged with: Godwit, Issue 33, Linda Burgess, Mark Broatch, Stephen Stratford
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review