1. 17:41 14th Feb 2012

    Tags: news

    a pile of stuff #24 

    St. Kilda denizen Adrian McKinty speaks to Readings about his latest crime novel, The Cold Cold Ground, which has been reviewed very favourably by the Guardian:

    What makes McKinty a cut above the rest is the quality of his prose. His driven, spat-out sentences are more accessible than James Ellroy’s edge-of-reason staccato, and he can be lyric. The sound of a riot is “the distant yelling like that of men below decks in a torpedoed prison ship”.

    Bound to be of interest is this set of small interviews with ‘Atlantic-based’ songwriters at Salty Ink, a blog devoted to Canadian fiction and poetry by Chad Pelley.

    Kathryn Greenhill provides a video of an espresso book machine at Darien library - with comments from young patrons.

    There’s a new story up at Paper Radio to be enjoyed. It’s ‘Me and Run Like A Dream’, by Elizabeth Reale.

    And if you are in Melbourne tomorrow at dinnertime, come launch Michael Sharkey’s new collection of poems, Another Fine Morning In Paradise, at:

    Collected Works bookshop

    Nicholas Building,

    Level 1, 37 Swanston St.

    6 onwards, with Jennifer Harrison doing the honours.