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Read an interview with Laura Pettenuzzo on Crip Stories
Crip Stories is a collection of short works from disabled people, combining memoir, essays and poetry.
GOOD READING spoke to LAURA PETTENUZZO about her experiences editing the collection, and how the word 'crip' is now reclaimed and celebrated.
MEET LAURA PETTENUZZO
What initially drew you to this collection?
When Michelle (from Mascara Literary Review) first approached me with the idea for this anthology, several years ago ...
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Features
The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around ... read a 5-star review by Emma Stubley of Strange the ...
What makes you pick up a book and want to read it? Is it the author? The back cover blurb? The front cover image? ...
Debut author SARAH BAILEY tells ANGUS DALTON about her much talkedabout crime novel, The Dark Lake, and the ...
New Zealand’s famed Marlborough Sounds are a dramatic and beautiful landscape of sea-drowned valleys. But in ...
INGA SIMPSON, who has just been longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award for her most recent novel, tells ANGUS ...
Librarians from our subscribing libraries have once again voted for their favourite novel from our June ...
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Reviews
David Vann’s reimagining of the myth of Medea opens with the ship Argo journeying across the Black Sea. Medea ...
At 14, Ginny Moon has dealt with more upheaval than most of us will experience across a lifetime. Not only has she ...
From the late 1930s to the 1950s, an adoption organisation in Memphis, Tennessee, coerced parents into giving up ...
Many Australian journalists seem to be following the path of churning out novels, particularly political ...
To call In the Name of the Family a superior bodice ripper would be somewhat facetious because this is a very ...
This story takes place in the recently invaded Ukraine in 1941. The stories of Yankel, Otto and Yasia at first ...
Elsie Gormley had lived in and old Queensland house for 62 years. After a fall, however, she goes to live in an ...
Set in a mountain town still reeling a year after a devastating bushfire, Eliza Henry-Jones’s second novel, Ache, ...
The subject matter of Our Magic Hour is weighty and its author is a young and relatively unfamiliar face on the ...
The focal character of Down the Hume, Bux, is a young, queer, second-generation Greek Australian man. He works at ...
Bill ten Boom, former US Attorney for Kindle County, has decided that if his marriage collapses, a relocation and ...
Need a shot of adrenaline in your reading life? Grab a Simon Kernick novel. This British thriller author is a ...
Sergeant Mack Helber, chief of the Paso Robles investigative bureau, receives a call that a body has been found in ...
Guido Brunetti, a commissario di polizia of the city of Venice, decides to take two weeks’ holiday to rest and ...
Readers first met DI Nicola Tanner in Mark Billingham’s most recent stand-alone novel, Die of Shame, which ...
Stav Sherez isn’t your standard police procedural series author. He writes literary crime thrillers with a ...
When emails came in, letter writing went out. But not for Her Excellency Dame Quentin Bryce, the 25th ...
The American author of this memoir died in February this year, aged 39. It is, as the subtitle indicates, an ...
This ripping yarn recounts the author’s escape – as an 11-year-old boy – from invading Japanese forces in World ...
In many Western countries, there is an increasing fear of terrorism and a distrust of ‘the other’. A lack of ...
I’m not a huge fan of misery memoirs – stories of people who somehow manage to survive horrifically traumatic ...
Bounce around in business and the law long enough and you are bound to meet a few con men. They are often ...
The Honest History Book – a tendentious title if there ever was one – is a collection of essays by contemporary ...
I have long filed The Australian Women’s Weekly, the creators of this book, in the part of my brain not far from ...
This thrilling book begins when a mysterious jack of spades card arrives in the mail from Paris for Linda, a ...
Raymie has a plan. She’s going to learn how to twirl a baton and become Little Miss Central Florida 1975. Her dad, ...
Miss V Conroy, just 10 years old, is taken by her father, Sir John Conroy, to Kensington Palace to become a ...
At first, Georgia doesn’t pay much attention to Nina, the new kid at school. She’s too busy writing her story ...
Mopoke is in trouble. He is a little owl with a love of peace and quiet. But every page in this book turns him ...
Nothing is more exciting than to get Nanna’s button tin, tip it upside down and tumble all the buttons onto the ...
Most of us would have heard of Arthur Phillip, the first governor of New South Wales, and of his friendship with ...
Louie wasn’t always called Poor Louie. He had a great life as a chihuahua, walking with his mum and dad, going ...
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