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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
Gerald Murnane just won the fiction category of the Prime Minister's Literary Award. But who is he, and why is it ...
For the wealthy Davenport family, life in pre-WWI Louisiana is good. Summers at their holiday house at Half Moon ...
You could open this slim novel to any page, read a paragraph at random, and you’d glean a thorough understanding ...
Stephen Hawking was born exactly 300 years after the death of Galileo. He liked to think this had a bearing on his ...
The Great Emu War is one of the most bizarre pockets of Australian history. In 1932, the Australian Army did ...
In his book Asia’s Reckoning: The struggle for global dominance, Australian journalist Richard McGregor likens the ...
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Reviews
Chinonso, a poor Nigerian poultry farmer, sees a woman ready to jump off a bridge into the river. He begs her not ...
In 1830, Washington Black is an 11-year-old slave on a plantation in Barbados; he is fated to live out his life in ...
In December 1940, Southampton is being bombed and bus loads of evacuees travel to the countryside for safety. ...
It’s not often you get a story told from the perspective of a dog and, more remarkably, a dog that lives in a ...
This adventure novel is made up of 80 short chapters that alternate between the perspectives of two main ...
The name Vanderbilt is synonymous with the Gilded Age of New York, conjuring up images of fabulous wealth and the ...
In the scorching summer of 1997, Marina Hirsch is sitting on the stoop of her newly restored Brownstone in Harlem ...
Farmer Rochelle has a cow that says moo moo, a sheep that says baa baa and a chicken that says chick chick. She ...
To all the Saint-Claires You are hereby invited To join me this Sunday I’d be most delighted! Dress in your best ...
Rosie and George live together. George makes breakfast for Rosie every morning and then they go for a walk. Rosie ...
So who is prettier than an ant? And who is more wobbly than an iguana? And who can fly better than a pig?
Julia ...
When Audrey and her family leave the city and move to a vineyard in the country, she doesn’t expect to make any ...
What a fun collection of slightly spooky, slightly crazy, definitely weird bedtime stories! The authors have had a ...
A young dirrarn, a black cockatoo, is callously cut down by Jy, a young Indigenous boy, who is using his new ...
Here’s a fun stocking filler for Christmas from David Astle, the famous ‘word nerd’ master. He’s chosen 101 weird ...
Is there something wrong with Hayden? Other people – her old schoolmates, her therapist and even her father – ...
One could be worlds away at an intergalactic space academy, and yet the same class wars still perpetuate. Kass ...
A trade in mercy killing pales in comparison to the glory of heroic feats, and one group of courageous young women ...
Yuval Noah Harari first caught my attention through a much-hyped interview triple j’s Hack program secured in ...
New Jerusalem traces the rise of the 16th-century Melchiorite sect and the bloody siege of the Westphalian town of ...
In The Story of Greece and Rome, Tony Spawforth rips through some 4000 years - from late Neolithic Greece to the ...
In Australia, bicycle sales surpass one million every year. From the daily commuter, to the club cyclists in their ...
The World Was Whole is something of an unofficial sequel to Fiona Wright’s, Small Acts of Disappearance, an ...
Did you know that the Mona Lisa painting was moved six times during World War II? That one of the guards nearly ...
When I was growing up, Mike Carlton was, to our family, a household name. His autobiography brings back a flood of ...
When I first read Sylvia Plath’s unabridged journals I was struck by their perceptiveness and intelligence, their ...
If this was not a memoir, it could be read as a rollicking and highly original novel ... except that sometimes ...
David Hirst, an Australian journalist and filmmaker, died in 2013. Low Life in the High Desert is his memoir of ...
This could have been a banal account of growing up in a pleasant street in London, surrounded by some of that ...
There is a growing problem in Europe - the seemingly unstoppable rise of a new Russian Empire under President ...
Leigh and Neil are comfortable middle-class professionals from Melbourne who have brought up their children ...
Ten years ago, Josiah Blackthorn took his 9-year-old son Lucas camping in a remote wilderness of Minnesota and ...
On a hot day, a harassed single mother leaves her two daughters, aged eight and 10 in the car while she dashes ...
On 7 December 1929, Barnabas Pandy drowns in his bath and soon after Sylvia Rule receives a letter, said to be ...
Starting a new ‘Jack Reacher’ book is like catching up with an old friend. It is immediately familiar, ...
Robert Cardilini is a disgraced detective in the Perth police force. A recent widow who has lost touch with his ...
Thirty years ago FBI Special Agent Atlee Pine’s twin sister, Mercy, was kidnapped from the bedroom they shared ...
I have been a persistent follower and fan of Murakami’s various works, and his new novel, Killing Commendatore, ...
Friday Black is a different brand of dystopian fiction. Rather than delivering some variation of an Orwellian ...
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