Maxine Beneba Clarke
The Best Australian Stories 2017 edited by Maxine Beneba Clarke
The Hate Race by Maxine Beneba Clarke & Carrying the World by Maxine Beneba Clarke
News from the the Editor's Desk in the August issue of Australian Book Review.
... (read more)News from the the Editor's Desk in the September issue of Australian Book Review.
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Bigger Thomas, the anguished anti-hero in Richard Wright’s Native Son, never fails to make me seethe and squirm with discomfort. Although obviously not fictional, Maya Angelou was so engaging I followed her spirit right through her seven autobiographies.
... (read more)In the spirit of our annual ‘Books of the Year’ feature, in which we ask a range of writers and critics to nominate their favourite new fiction and non-fiction titles, we asked ten Australian short story writers to nominate their favourite short story collections and individual stories. As this is the first time we have run a short-story themed feature of this nature, our ten writers were free to nominate older titles if they wished to do so. Our only request was that at least one of their selections should have been published recently and that at least one be by an Australian author.
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