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Flickers without the flame, Elizabeth Smither

Posted on December 17, 1995 by NZ Books

Lust: stories from Australian and New Zealand writers Michael Gifkins (ed) Vintage, $24.95 ISBN 186941 2435 Of the seven deadly sins, most of us have a predilection for one or two. If two are combined, like sloth and gluttony, it…

Tagged with: Elizabeth Smither, Issue 21, Michael Gifkins, Vintage
Posted in Literature, Review, Short stories

Denis Welch: Dreary duty and repulsive habit

Posted on June 12, 1994 by NZ Books

Tart and Juicy: Food Stories from Australian and New Zealand Writers Michael Gifkins (ed) Vintage, $24.95 When some people write about food, they do it so mouth‑wateringly that you have to raid the pantry immediately. With one or two exceptions,…

Tagged with: Denis Welch, Issue 13, Michael Gifkins, Vintage, Winter I 1994
Posted in Literature, Review, Short stories

Travelling through fiction, Charles Ferrall

Posted on June 1, 1993 by NZ Books

The Good Tourist and the Laughing Cadaver Michael Gifkins (ed) Vintage, 1993, $24.95 Visiting a library in Timbuktu, an actual town in the central west African country of Mali, the Australian writer Murray Bail is told by an Islamic…

Tagged with: Charles Ferrall, Issue 9, Michael Gifkins, Vintage, Winter 1993
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review

The fall of a decent joker, Michael Gifkins

Posted on December 1, 1992 by NZ Books

The Autobiography of My Father Martin Edmond, Auckland University Press, $29.95 There is an entry in the book of New Zealand literary politics which reads: Edmond, Trevor, schoolteacher, husband of Lauris, poet (late-flowering); father of (inter alia) Martin, scriptwriter, see…

Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 7, Lauris Edmond, Martin Edmond, Michael Gifkins, Summer 1992, Trevor Edmond
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review