A couple of times a year (probably more than that), I visit the thrift shops where I live; St Vincent de Paul, Lifeline, Salvos. Mostly people go in here to look for clothes, but I enter in search of books!For an avid horror reader like me, living outside a major city, these places are veritableContinue reading “Secondhand bookstores and thrift shops – last refuge for the damned … horror reader?”
Monthly Archives: January 2012
Review: Monsters of L.A. by Lisa Morton
Being an Australian, the little I know about Los Angeles comes from the television and films I have digested since I could first understand the idiot box, but after reading Lisa Morton’s stellar horror collection, Monsters of L.A., I have an appreciation of the City of Angels and its raw emotional texture. Morton uses theContinue reading “Review: Monsters of L.A. by Lisa Morton”
From the back of the desk drawer
When I was at university studying journalism in the late 90’s I enrolled in Literary Theory as an elective. After the first lecture I questioned whether I should drop out of the course. What I really hoped to get out of the course was to learn the art of writing (as if it had aContinue reading “From the back of the desk drawer”
Paper or Pixels?
Just last week I had to clean out my office so it could be painted. Amongst all the dog-eared paperbacks, art materials, blank notebooks, Doctor Who figurines, hand-crafted Father’s Day presents and old photographs there were fragments of notepaper, all bearing the scrawl of me, the mad writer. Seeing all those pieces of paper scatteredContinue reading “Paper or Pixels?”
