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[Published in Screen Education, Edition #68, Summer 2013] Set in a flood-ravaged southern Louisiana, Benh Zeitlin’s film explores human tenacity, family loyalty and the role of fantasy in the face of tragedy. REBECCA HARKINS-CROSS spoke with the director about the intricacies of capturing a unique environment, the relationship between catastrophe and storytelling, and the inevitable […]
May 28, 2012
[Published in The Emerging Writer: An Insider's Guide to Your Writing Journey, May 2012] “If you want to write about yourself, you have to give them something.” So said Joan Didion, one of the preeminent memoirists, to her late husband in 1979. Notoriously reticent in person, Didion has always viewed the disclosure of the self […]
May 16, 2012
[Published in Meanjin, Number Two 2012] Writing about Joan Didion can seem superfluous; after all, it is Joan Didion who has written most widely about Joan Didion. Perhaps more than with any other author, Didion’s personality is impossible to separate from the pages of her work. In five novels, three memoirs and an expansive collection […]
November 24, 2011
[Published in Meanjin, December 2011 Edition] Artistic collaboration in the written word is surprisingly rare. For all postmodernity’s declarations about the death of the author, poetry in particular has upheld some facade of the artist as solitary genius. The relationship between poet and muse may be more familiar, but the poet’s act of creation is […]
January 1, 2013
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