Archive for September, 2009

Critics With a Cause

My friend Felice posted me this link on Facebook: ‘Critical mess: whose ‘must see’ is it anyway?’ The article starts with a guy having a fight with his girlfriend because they have different expectations of art reviewers. She likes to rely on her own curiosity when choosing the film she’d like to see, and her own [ READ MORE ]

To Win, Or Not To Win

There’s a really good agent blog coming out of Sydney, called Call My Agent! The anonymous blogger, Agent Sydney, posts and answers fictional queries based on what are, presumably, emails that an agent might receive, in a pithy and sometimes scathing manner. In a post about competitions and rights, Agent Sydney dishes out such pithy advice [ READ MORE ]

Inferiority Complex, Much?

I often read claims like this: So is YA taking over the grown-ups’ table? It’s a revealing question, steeped in the kind of condescension that assumes books aimed at young people are intrinsically of less cultural value than the real books, speculative or otherwise, that are ostensibly for adult readers. It’s also drenched in fear because, [ READ MORE ]

Andre Peach

I’m excited that Andre Dao is blogging at A Portrait of the Peach as a Young Lawyer. I have known Andre since we employed him as the Voiceworks Production Intern at Express Media. He helped me produce a production manual for future Voiceworks editors – actually, I helped him, as he did most of the leg [ READ MORE ]

Twitter I Love You, But You’re Freaking Me Out!

Dear Twitter, What we had was thrilling for a while, but then it got lame. I’m sorry – it’s not you, it’s everyone else. You gave me the confidence to publish longer blog posts at Socratic Ignorance is Bliss, but there’s something … something about you that makes me feel squeamish now. I know, that’s rough, but I [ READ MORE ]

Paine Management

It’s about time I kicked this business in the guts. For the last couple of months I have deferred the venture because a whole bunch of fun writing gigs came up: reviews for The Big Issue, The Book Show and Bookseller + Publisher; plus an essay for the Emerging Writers’ Festival, an essay for Vignette [ READ MORE ]

Now Hosting

  • September 10th, 2009
  • Posted in News
  • By Ryan

I got jacked with not being able to muck around with the look of my blog when it was hosted by WordPress. In particular, I wanted to link my Google Reader feed to my blogroll, because I don’t want to have to be arsed updating my blogroll everytime I find a new blog, but I want [ READ MORE ]

Love Comes In Soundwaves

I went to see this guy last night: Here’s a video of one of my favourite tracks: And a link to Tattooing the Surface of the Moon, Sean’s blog. I fell in love with Sean M Whelan’s work when he was performing with The Mime Set. Pepped up on sangria on holiday in Melbourne years ago, their performance [ READ MORE ]

Ploughing Author Intentions

I have a question to ask that seems simple, but which grows increasingly complex when you think about it. How do you consider author intention when reviewing a novel? I’ve come up ambivalent about a book I’m reviewing. When this happens I like to make note of the positives and negatives and try to round up [ READ MORE ]

The Internet Hating On Lee Siegel

So it turns out this Lee Siegel fella might be a total douchebag. He got busted for sockpuppetry at his blog for The New Republic, was hounded out of there and proceeded to get angry about internet anonymity, among other things wrong with the internet, in his book, Against the Machine. That this book is [ READ MORE ]

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