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Sep 8, 2024 | 
killyourdarlings.com.au | Emmett Stinson
What I Wish I’d Known is a regular series where we ask some of our favourite people in the book industry to reflect on their careers. In this instalment, critics share some of the unexpected and useful things they’ve learned along the way about writing reviews. I think we make sense of ourselves and the world through art, books, film and culture, and I love to write about all those things.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Jo Case |Aidan Coleman |Alexander Cothren |Alexander Howard |Ali Mohammad Alizadeh |Amanda Tink | +44 more
Like so many avid readers around the world, I was fascinated by the recent New York Times list of the Best Books of the 21st century, as voted by 503 authors, critics and book lovers. But like many Australians, I was disappointed to see no Australian books on the list. Even those authors who’ve made a splash in the US literary scene this century – Helen Garner, Gerald Murnane, Maria Tumarkin – didn’t get a guernsey. That’s where we come in.
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Aug 18, 2024 | 
overland.org.au | Murdoch Stephens |Savannah Hollis |Emmett Stinson
As the founding editor of Lawrence & Gibson publishing collective, I’ve bound about 14000 books in my life. Our collective hand makes books in a little office in central Wellington. We’re nineteen years in and have thirty-two titles to our credit. When I say I hand-make books, people immediately think of industrial revolution-era machines with stitched bindings and offset plates. Not so! Nor are we the new school of fully automated print on demand.
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Apr 20, 2024 | 
openforum.com.au | Emmett Stinson |Australian Literature
What superseded literary postmodernism? Many contenders have been proposed: the new sincerity, metamodernism, even late postmodernism. But none of these terms have persisted. The novel in English may now be dominated by autofiction, but autofiction arguably extends key aspects of postmodernism: it critiques universalism and emphasises the self-reflexively performative nature of identity.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
tolerance.ca | Emmett Stinson
By Emmett Stinson, Associate Professor, Writing and Literature, University of Tasmania
What superseded literary postmodernism? Many contenders have been proposed: the new sincerity, metamodernism, even late postmodernism. But none of these terms have persisted. The novel in English may now be dominated by autofiction,…Read complete article© The Conversation
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
hashtag.net.au | Emmett Stinson
What superseded literary postmodernism? Many contenders have been proposed: the new sincerity, metamodernism, even late postmodernism. But none of these terms have persisted. The novel in English may now be dominated by autofiction, but autofiction arguably extends key aspects of postmodernism: it critiques universalism and emphasises the self-reflexively performative nature of identity.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Emmett Stinson
What superseded literary postmodernism? Many contenders have been proposed: the new sincerity, metamodernism, even late postmodernism. But none of these terms have persisted. The novel in English may now be dominated by autofiction, but autofiction arguably extends key aspects of postmodernism: it critiques universalism and emphasises the self-reflexively performative nature of identity.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
thetimes.com.au | Emmett Stinson
What superseded literary postmodernism? Many contenders have been proposed: the new sincerity[1], metamodernism[2], even late postmodernism[3]. But none of these terms have persisted. The novel in English may now be dominated by autofiction[4], but autofiction arguably extends key aspects of postmodernism: it critiques universalism and emphasises the self-reflexively performative nature of identity.
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Jul 22, 2023 | 
theguardian.com | Emmett Stinson
I am often asked which of Gerald Murnane’s novels readers should start with, but there is no easy point of entry (my suggestion, instead, is the short story When the Mice Failed to Arrive, which contains, in miniature, the major themes and techniques that he develops across his work). Responses to Murnane’s work often tend to extremes: many readers, like me, become obsessed, wanting to read everything he has written, while other readers remain bemused or puzzled or worse.
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Jun 21, 2023 | 
hashtag.net.au | Emmett Stinson
How do you review a novel when its author has already written a book-length work of criticism on it before it was published? The rise of the Creative Writing PhD in Australia has created this perhaps unexpected dilemma for critics, who will now find that many contemporary novels come predigested, with the exegetical section of the PhD offering more extensive analysis than any in-depth review ever could.
