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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
Jennifer Somerville reviews A Rightful Place: A road map to reconciliation, a collection of essays about ...
A reader recently wrote to me about an author who used their book royalties to fund an out-of-court settlement for ...
Iconic NZ chef AL BROWN is much loved for his restaurant Depot, his Best Ugly Bagels shops, and his bestselling ...
San Francisco’s Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary held some of the world’s worst criminals between 1934 and 1963. But ...
The secrets that bind and those that divide are at the heart of The Secrets at Ocean’s Edge, a historical family ...
The fascinating psychological research used by MELANIE MÜHL and DIANA VON KOPP in their new book, How We Eat with ...
Our librarians have voted The Tattooist of Auschwitz as their top read from our February issue! Read our 4.5 star ...
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Reviews
In the near future, the residents of a small Australian coastal town awake to find that the ocean has disappeared, ...
I’m not sure what’s more engaging about The Sun and Her Flowers: the book itself, or the hype surrounding it. ...
Every year the Melbourne-based publisher Black Inc. invites an editor to compile a book of the best Australian ...
Following on from the superb ‘Powder Mage’ trilogy (and many associated short stories), Brian McClellan now ...
The subtitle and the image on the dust jacket of this hardcover book say it all; the subtitle is ‘A celebration of ...
Sign is a highly original book with a grim beginning. Sam is a young boy in remission from cancer. He has to ...
Most of us appreciate the problems that sometimes arise from sibling rivalry. This ambitious novel follows the ...
I keep a coffee-table book of photos by Bill Henson open atop a low bookshelf in my bedroom. Every few days I flip ...
The title says it all, preparing the reader for a dash of satire and occasional domestic angst, but mostly ...
One of the most enduring symbols of the dehumanisation of Jews during the Holocaust is the tattooed identity ...
As World War II approaches its end, nine-year-old Daniel and his mother are living in a quiet English village. ...
When solicitor Bertrand Barthelme is killed in a car accident on the A35, a road that runs between Strasbourg and ...
This new edition of Agatha Christie’s 1934 classic has been published to coincide with the release of Kenneth ...
Merrily Watkins is a country vicar in the small village of Ledwardine, on the border between England and Wales. ...
Kurt Nordstrum has been trying to avoid the attention of the Nazi regime as it envelops Europe, but is drawn in to ...
To a young Cat Kinsella in 1998, 17-year-old Maryanne Doyle is a Spice Girl come to life with her cool clothes, ...
In the 1950s, reviews of jazz and classical music filled the pages of student newspapers, and Honi Soit – the ...
American journalist Carina Chocano begins her collection of essays about pop culture and feminism with an anecdote ...
Rome and its empire lasted so long, and then its spin-offs kept spinning. The Eastern Roman Empire spluttered on ...
When the Land of the Dolls is invaded by the evil Kingdom of the Rats, Karolina is carried by a kind wind to the ...
Ada’s club foot has been fixed. She can finally wear shoes and walk almost like everybody else. But it will take ...
This clever little book invites us to explore ‘the wonderful world of chickens and eggs’. We meet Violet, a very ...
The stunning artwork on every page of Big Fella Rain is mesmerising, as Big Fella Rain brings Mother Earth back to ...
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