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  • 1 month ago | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Madeleine Gray

    The title of Jessica Stanley’s sophomore novel, Consider Yourself Kissed, initially reads as a bit trite, a bit twee. The cover of the novel, with its cartoon bird and cherries, seems to confirm the “women’s fiction” energy the title gives off. The explanation for the title, however, speaks to the overall tone of Stanley’s novel. It is droll, smart and cheekily literary.

  • 2 months ago | lesen.de | Madeleine Gray |Barry Lewis |George Eliot |John Steinbeck

    A BEST BOOK OF 2024 IN STYLIST, DAILY MAIL, THE I, IRISH TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND REDHera is in her mid-twenties, which seems young to everyone except people in their mid-twenties. Since leaving school, she has been trying to kick and scream into existence a life she cares about, but with little success so far. Until she meets Arthur. He works with her, he is older than her, he is also married.

  • Feb 14, 2025 | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Madeleine Gray

    People can be snobs about science fiction, and I admit that until a few years back I was one of them. Meanwhile, I had absolutely no problem seeing the literary merit in magical realism, romance fiction – arguably the most implausible genre of all – even fantasy. Science fiction seemed like a negatively masculine genre to me – a place where men could nerd out fantasising about high-tech apocalypses and cyborg women with innumerable breasts.

  • Dec 6, 2024 | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Madeleine Gray

    Lili Anolik is a journalist who enjoys writerly gossip, and so, dear reader, am I. Didion & Babitz is Anolik’s dual biography of Los Angeles counterculture chroniclers Joan Didion and Eve Babitz and, whatever else it may be, it is indubitably literary gossip of the highest order. I first came across Anolik’s work in 2019 when she published a riveting oral history of the writers who studied at Bennington College in the 1980s.

  • Oct 18, 2024 | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Madeleine Gray

    If you understand something well, you can explain it simply. Melanie Cheng understands ordinary people – their love, their quiet desperation, their hope – and the restrained, elegant prose of The Burrow is testament to this. The novel is slim and each word is carefully chosen. It feels as if every sentence is a distillation.

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