Jessica Au
Jessica Au is a former editor of Readings Monthly. She is also the author of the novels, Cargo and Cold Enough for Snow.
Blog post — 16 May 2012
Q&A with Ruby J. Murray, author of Running Dogs
Jessica Au from Readings St Kilda chats to Ruby J. Murray about her debut novel, **
Photo courtesy of Brad Dunn
How did
I was working in communications for…
Blog post — 1 May 2012
Q&A with Ryan O'Neill, author of The Weight of a Human Heart
Jessica Au from Readings St Kilda chats to Ryan O'Neill about his debut collection of short stories, **.
*One of the hallmarks of your writing is your ability…
Review — 22 Apr 2012
The Weight of a Human Heart by Ryan O’Neill
When Jennifer Egan’s A Visit From the Goon Squad was propelled into the literary stratosphere last year (helped along by a small prize called the Pulitzer), one chapter in particular…
Blog post — 29 Mar 2012
Q&A with Pierz Newton-John, author of Fault Lines
Jessica Au from Readings St Kilda chats to Melbourne author Pierz Newton-John about his debut collection of short stories,
Many of the stories in
I very much do. When I…
Review — 20 May 2012
Text Classics: They’re a Weird Mob by Nino Culotta
In a way, They’re a Weird Mob reads just as much as a love-letter to the Australian language as it does as a paranorma of immigration and culture-shock in 1950s…
Review — 27 Mar 2012
Floundering by Romy Ash
Brothers Tom and Jordy are living with their grandparents in quiet suburbia until, one day, their mother Loretta returns for them, wanting both a new start and another a chance…
Review — 23 Feb 2012
The Fine Colour of Rust by P.A. O’Reilly
Paddy O’Reilly has been a staple on the short story circuit for a long while now, winning just about everything from The Age Short Story Award to Zoetrope: All Story…
Blog post — 27 Feb 2012
Q&A with Chris Flynn, author of A Tiger in Eden
Chris Flynn has worn many hats over the years – as publisher of the journal
Here, he chats with
Tell us how
The scary version is that I met someone…
Blog post — 8 Mar 2012
Q&A with Paddy O’Reilly, author of The Fine Colour of Rust
*Your narrator, Loretta – a single mum struggling to raise her kids in a stranded rural town – is such a fresh voice: funny, deprecating and frank all at…
Review — 26 Feb 2012
Sweet Old World by Deborah Robertson
There are novels that win you over in an instant and novels that creep up on you. Surely and insistently, Deborah Robertson’s Sweet Old World is the latter.
Writer and…
