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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
Brisbane writer EMILY O’GRADY meets ANGUS DALTON the day after taking out Australia’s richest prize for an ...
Have you ever wished you could tell your favourite books just what they mean to you? Well, that’s exactly ...
KATE WILD is a journalist who has been awarded three Walkley Awards and a Logie for her work. Kate’s new ...
Film review with Clive Hodges
Four stars
The Bookshop A young widow opens a bookshop in an English coastal ...
'In primary school a nun told us that on judgement day, God would play back in front of the whole world a film of ...
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Reviews
Nour, a young Syrian girl, has been living in Manhattan for 12 years, with her mother and two older sisters, Zahra ...
The tragic collapse of the West Gate Bridge during its construction in the 1970s killed 35 workers, many of whom ...
In a leafy and affluent area of Sheffield, two sets of neighbours meet over a back garden fence while one party is ...
Inspired by Truman Capote’s infamous unfinished novel Answered Prayers, Swan Song is as much concerned with ...
Cormac McCarthy springs to mind as an influence on this debut novel; his spare, harsh and uncompromising style is ...
Flames is a work of classic magical realism that illustrates how the Australian landscape (specifically, that of ...
Take a couple of feisty young women born a century apart, add a dedicated naturalist, mix in a mysterious ...
In modern London, two very different people literally bump into each other on Waterloo Bridge. Atilla is a giant ...
The Neighborhood is being marketed as a detective thriller, but this is a misleading description and perhaps ...
It's 1942 and Eleanor Roy works for the Ministry of Food, arranging paintings and murals for the walls of ...
In The Making of Martin Sparrow, Peter Cochrane, a respected historian, gives us his take on the same stretch of ...
Rachel is a very talented scientist who works for the prestigious robotics company, Telos. Her husband, Aidan, ...
In 1959, Florence Green, the author’s naive heroine, decides to buy the dilapidated ‘Old House’ in the small ...
This year is the centenary of Muriel Spark’s birth. Born in 1918 and dying in 2006, she came to fame and fortune ...
The Bright family – Charlie, Tricia and their children, Louisa, Jack and Phoebe – are a normal suburban family who ...
Lauren Groff ’s new collection of short stories is simply titled Florida. The Sunshine State is the beating heart ...
Lang Leav’s book of poetry and prose, Sea of Strangers, is entirely removed from the academy. Leav is a successful ...
Martin Reese is like any other person. He has a wife and daughter he loves, a job he tolerates and a hobby that ...
In 1969 Lancashire, Florence Lovelady is an outsider: the only female police constable at the Sabden station, ...
Although I have seen Laura Lippman’s previous titles on bookstore shelves and, perhaps because she is such a ...
How far can a man fall before he breaks into so many pieces that he cannot, should not ever get up again? John ...
Many Australians will remember Expo 88, held during Australia’s bicentenary in 1988 and credited with Brisbane’s ...
Food writing, paradoxically, is not really about food. So says this author, Professor Emeritus in the History ...
The cover image of a girl sitting at a piano was a potent 19th-century cultural theme. It may entice only a ...
Since C D Rowley’s The Destruction of Aboriginal Society and Henry Reynold’s The Other Side of the Frontier, the ...
David Ritter is the CEO of Greenpeace Australia Pacific. In a book written by him on the subject of coal and ...
It takes a village to raise a child, so goes the old saying. And when a new mother is at home alone with her ...
In his book, Phil Knight describes his passion for running, and how this activity led him to creating a successful ...
Camellia Beauregard, like her five sisters, is a Belle. In Orleans, Belles are the gift of the Goddess of Beauty ...
Sunny’s mother has recently died in a car crash. Sunny blames her stepfather, Kevin: if he’d only been with her ...
In 2023, a select group of people were isolated under a 200-kilometre domed force field, saving them from the ...
This book holds nothing back in its exploration of the themes of consent, sexual assault and mental illness.
The ...
Debbi and Billy love it when Dada Keen, their mother’s father, comes to visit. They play ‘tyre-racing’, which is a ...
This book is for all the boys out there who don’t dream of killing dragons or saving princesses in distress. It’s ...
When Moominpappa gets the ‘man flu’ and believes he is dying, he realises his family knows barely anything about ...
It was the cover that first caught my attention: a little girl and her strange zombie friend sitting on top of a ...
Deep in the forest where sundrops spill A bird sends seeds to the floor.
These poetic words are etched onto the ...
Tildy knows she has monsters in her bedroom. They come in with the moonlight and hide behind the curtains and ...
This is a story of Maggie, a little girl who is standing with her mother on the grounds of Parliament House ...
Down a winding pathway, ’bout halfway through the woods, sat a weary traveller with a basket full of goods.
She ...
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