Books & Poetry
In his imaginative and wryly witty new novel, Sincerely, Ethel Malley, Adelaide author Stephen Orr reimagines Australia’s greatest literary hoax, the Ern Malley Affair.
Books & Poetry
Adelaide author Stephen Orr has been awarded an $80,000 fellowship to work on his fictionalised reimagining of a Lutheran missionary and his son as they travel through the South Australian desert.
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Mexican writer Juan Rulfo’s dark fable Pedro Páramo ignores boundaries between the living and the dead – but is more than just a ghost story. It is, writes Stephen Orr, a book that created a genre.
Ernst Haffner’s novel Blutsbrüder (Blood Brothers), set in the shadows of Berlin, was burned by the Nazis a year after publication. While the lost gem has been rediscovered, the fate of its author remains a mystery, writes Stephen Orr.
The ‘strange/beautiful’ work of Flannery O’Connor – a writer who died too soon and who many have spent years trying to understand – is explored by Adelaide author Stephen Orr as part of his series on books that have changed or challenged fiction.
In this first article in a series about books that have changed or challenged fiction, Adelaide author Stephen Orr looks at Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano – a booze-soaked novel that is far greater than the sum of its parts.
