Author results: Christopher Currie
Last Drinks - Quarterly Essay
June marks the one-year anniversary of the Northern Territory intervention, a Howard government initiative (and still supported by Rudd's Labor we might add) initially drafted to combat high levels of sexual abuse in NT aboriginal communities, but spreading to changes to welfare provision, law enforcement, health services and other measures.
Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures
If you would say you love reading about sad people not expressing their feelings properly, what you're really saying is that you like Canadian fiction. And one of the best recent exponents of this is doctor-turned-author Vincent Lam, whose collection of linked short stories, Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures, is one of the freshest pieces of writing released this year.
Bigfoot: I Not Dead
Okay, enough mucking around with frivolous books. Sometimes you’ve got to knuckle down and improve your life with some serious, brow-straining, “real literature.” It is in this spirit that FourThousand recommends the latest volume of Bigfoot’s Official Biography, Bigfoot: I Not Dead.
The Story of Forgetting
Ah, books; the perfect Mothers' Day present. In the eyes of the recipient, they make you look intelligent, thoughtful, and they're easy to wrap. But don't just trundle down to Kmart to pick up the new Danielle Steel, because your mum is an intelligent being and, unlike your average Kmart customer, can read.
Do Travel Writers Go to Hell?
Have you heard of Thomas Kohnstamm? That’s ok, most people haven’t. But get this, he gave up a successful Wall Street career and stable relationship for his dream job: travelling to Brazil to write a Lonely Planet guide. His dream, however, quickly turned to nightmare. After spending half his meagre wage on a plane ticket, he had only six weeks to write about 59 towns spread over some 1000 miles of coastline.
Philosophy in the Boudoir
Fourteen inch penises and philosophy; not your usual reading fare, but, then again Marquis de Sade's erotic classic is not your usual book. If you're looking for something saucy to read this week without breaking the bank (and without the moral guilt of taking that big hardback "photography" book to the bookshop counter), you could do far worse.
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