Posts Tagged ‘ Ronnie Scott ’
Now that I’ve finally published the final part of my Wet Ink interview with Ronnie Scott, I’ll be republishing one of his short stories soon. It’s called ‘Together Now, Very Minor’, and is remarkable in the way eating an icecream on a bouncey castle is remarkable. [ READ MORE ]
This idea of the ‘anthology dream’ – of publishing new writers alongside emerging writers in a coherent context – is more what I’m talking about when I ask about the Brow. Wet Ink does it too, and I understand at the Brow you avoid government funding because you want to publish smaller Australian writers alongside [ READ MORE ]
So, I flat-out failed to publish the rest of my interview with Ronnie Scott over Easter. Frankly: I was indulging in too much pot all weekend, so I pretty much hybernated in my flat and tried to finish reading Power Without Glory, which I also failed at. Power Without Glory is really long, and dense, and [ READ MORE ]
I hope somebody recognises your talent for abstract temporal-spatial theory, because I have no idea what you’re talking about. I heard recently that during experiments with the Large Hadron Collider they had discovered that particles inside atoms will occasionally disappear, inspiring speculation about parallel universes. Is this what you’re into – it’s interesting stuff, but [ READ MORE ]
Your narrative stories are often about boys meeting boys: young homosexuals’ first awkward attempts at flirting with each other. You are otherwise not overt about your homosexuality in your public life. Is fiction a place where you can parse your sexuality? … I am pretty freaking gay in public life. I am a red hot mess [ READ MORE ]
Ronnie Scott: is 23; moved to Melbourne from Brisbane in 2004, leaving behind a community-radio breakfast program and bringing with him the first slim issues of The Lifted Brow: Bi-annual attack journal, which he still publishes and is now sometimes massive; is doing a PhD in creative writing; has been Associate Director of National Young [ READ MORE ]
Over Easter I’m going to publish my interview with Ronnie Scott, which I had the fortune to conduct for Wet Ink, followed by one of Ronnie’s short stories, ‘Together Now, Very Minor’, a wonderful piece about the relationships we form on hallucinogens, which then dissipate into reality. Writing about tripping is like writing about dancing or [ READ MORE ]