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[Published in Beat, Issue 1301, January 04 2012] Eddie Bocanegra is an unassuming figure. Slender, softly spoken, his kindly demeanor belies his past. Watching him stand before a roomful of elementary school children in Chicago, teaching them to paint as a way of expressing their feelings about gang violence, it’s hard to believe he’s only […]
December 7, 2011
[Published in Beat, Issue 1298, December 7 2011] In times of trouble, cinema can provide a window on the world. The filmmaker’s lens offers a unique insight into the issues that are concerning a country’s citizens, often revealing the subtleties that are omitted in mainstream media coverage. There is perhaps no nation this is truer […]
November 9, 2011
[Published in Beat Magazine, Issue 1294, November 9 2011] When tattoo parlours now populate every suburban shopping strip in every city the world over, it’s hard to imagine an era when tattooing was a subterranean enterprise. These days, tattoos are the faded battle scars of teenage rebellion, fashion faux pas, lost love and regret. But […]
September 9, 2011
[Published on Meanjin.com.au, September 9 2011] One of the final events in Melbourne Writers Festival’s schools program, Writers and Their Craft asked authors Maile Meloy and Steven Amsterdam about the nuts and bolts of their practice. And while the discussion was geared towards the largely adolescent audience (Amsterdam’s Things We Didn’t See Coming has recently […]
August 31, 2011
[Published on Beat.com.au, August 31 2011] As a teenager, Margaret and David were the parents I never had. Don’t get me wrong, I had parents – awesome ones. But at the pissy pinnacle of 15, I sure as hell didn’t want them. So every Wednesday night I would switch on the telly and let that […]
August 27, 2011
[Published on Meanjin.com.au, August 27 2011] Hosted by Julianne Schultz of the Griffith Review, State of the (Literary) Nation bought together the editors our fellow literary journals – Sarah Kanowski of Island, Dominique Wilson of Wetink and Ivor Indyk of the recently discontinued Heat – to discuss the role the journal plays in Australia’s national […]
January 4, 2012
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