Interview

Yacker by Candida Baker & Rooms of Their Own by Jennifer Ellison

Item: Yacker
Author: Kerryn Goldsworthy

by Kerryn Goldsworthy •

July 1986, no. 82

Yacker: Australian writers talking about their work by Candida Baker

Picador, 315 pp, illus., $14.95

Rooms of Their Own by Jennifer Ellison

Penguin, 248 pp, illus., $12.95

Interview

Yacker by Candida Baker & Rooms of Their Own by Jennifer Ellison

by Kerryn Goldsworthy •

July 1986, no. 82

Why do we like interviews so much? There must be a reason. Maybe it’s the lure – too often, alas, as in lurid – of confession: the ‘X Reveals All’ syndrome that deceives the mind into thinking it has always wanted to know what it is (finally) about to be told; or the more elevated sense of privilege and honour felt by those in whom such truths are confided.

Kerryn Goldsworthy

Kerryn Goldsworthy won the 2013 Pascall Prize for cultural criticism, and the 2017 Horne Prize for her essay ‘The Limit of the World’. A former Editor of ABR (1986–87), she is one of Australia’s most prolific and respected literary critics. Her publications include several anthologies, a critical study of Helen Garner, and her book Adelaide, which was shortlisted for a Victorian Premier’s Literary Award. In November 2012 she was named as the inaugural ABR Ian Potter Foundation Fellow. Her Fellowship article on reviewing, ‘Everyone’s a Critic’, appeared in the May 2013 issue of ABR.