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Chris Somerville

Chris Somerville is a former member of the Readings online team. He is the author of a short-story collection, We Are Not The Same Anymore.

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The Silence
by Don DeLillo

Reviewed by
Chris Somerville, Nov 2020

On an aeroplane a man recites flight data to his partner, half listening and writing in her notebook in the adjacent seat. Their conversation, spanning several pages, has somewhat of a stilted back and forth, as they each regard each…

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A Constant Hum
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Attraction
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Simpson Returns
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Ironbark
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The Lebs
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Recent blog posts by Chris Somerville

Books
17 Dec 2014

Six Australian short-story collections that made an impression on me this year

For a long time, even before I’d written a book but told people, misguidedly, that I was working on a collection of short stories, the response I received would usually be, ‘I heard short stories are making a comeback’, sometimes…
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Books We've Loved
7 May 2014

What I Loved: Americana by Don DeLillo

Here is how I ended up with a copy of Americana: I was 17 and it was lent to me by a neighbour, a professor at the university my father had worked at, who told me it was good…
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q and as and interviews
5 Nov 2013

Gabrielle Carey chats to Chris Somerville about Moving Among Strangers

Gabrielle Carey talks to Chris Somerville about the reclusive novelist Randolph Stow, the secrets families keep and her new memoir, ‘One night I dreamt I saw Randolph Stow. He was sitting in a cave, wearing a long robe, his chest…
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Music
17 Sep 2013

Five Notable Uses of Music In Breaking Bad

Chris Somerville talks about some of his music highlights in the television drama, Currently I’m trying to catch up on Breaking Bad before the season ends and everyone talks about it on social media. I realise, of course, that this…
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Feature
3 Feb 2013

The lies we tell, you and I

Chris Somerville writes on the anxieties of literary taste, and the lies we tell to cover them. When I was around nineteen or in my early twenties, I went into a second hand bookstore near my house. Where I live…
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