Focusing on Ship Breakers by Paolo Bacigalupi, Carbon Diaries; Book 1 by Saci Lloyd & Solstice by PJ Hoover Post-apocalyptic and dystopian fiction utilises adolescent anxieties and curiosities about the future, allowing the reader to negotiate those anxieties in speculative future spaces. As a coming of age narrative, the dystopian novel often creates a reality…
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In Cold Blood & Capote – Or why you should never trust a writer…
Welcome to season 2 of The Frankenpod in which we will be looking at Truman Capote and his “literary non-fiction” novel In Cold Blood (1966). You can listen here Download here Or add us to your podcast app The media that we focused on included; The 1966 novel In Cold Blood: A true account of a multiple…
How do women writers in the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries use the essay form to interrogate the implications of progress for gender roles? By Morgan Mushroom
Women in the late eighteenth and nineteenth century began to utilize the persuasive power of the essay in order to put forward their ideas about what values and rights women should have. Whilst many women were beginning to write and philosophize outside of the domestic sphere, the persuasive writing of women gained an audience when…
Call out to clever cloggs
Got an idea you want to chat about? Obsessed with something niche? Are people tired of hearing about it? Do they get that glazed over look in their eyes? Do they sigh loudly when you mention it? Do they cross the street when they see you coming? Do they start screaming when you open your…
Writing about Film and TV (Writing for the Arts 2)
Buy Books So I can buy coffee! Neill, Rosemary. “Cable TV box sets spark a cultural revolution.” The Australian 8 December 2012 : http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/review/cable-tv-box-sets-spark-a-cultural-revolution/story-fn9n8gph-1226531292299 The first thing I have to say about the article is that the word “hip” sticks out like a sore thumb. But then I guess the demographic for the Australian is…
Writing about Music (Writing for the Arts 1)
Buy Books So I can buy coffee! Kent, Nick. “Sid Vicious – The Exploding Dim-Wit.” The Dark Stuff: Selected Writings on Rock Music 1972-1993. London: Penguin. 1994. 179-87. The reading was a quite brutal close up look at one of the most iconic moments in the 70s punk movement. I found that it might be…
Coping (or pretending) to cope with polite rejection…
Whilst I realise that a rejection with a request for more writing is better than simply being ignored, I’m still feeling that stinging sensation that comes with knowing nobody want what you are selling,,, nobody is picking up what you are putting down… no one finds your ideas intriguing and wishes to subscribe to your…
Topic 5: Writing the Report (Zeitgeist Genres 4)
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission. Bringing them Home. Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families. April 1997. The heartbreaking “Bringing them home” report introduction powerfully states the case to be answered by the Australian government in emotive but not overstated language. Rather than…
Topic 4: The Blog and the Zeitgeist (Zeitgeist Genres 3)
Keen, Andrew. “Introduction.” The Cult of the Amateur. New York: Doubleday, Currency. 2007. Keen’s “Introduction” paints a pretty bleak picture of what is expected of blogging and social media journalism. He invokes the “infinite number of monkeys” who will eventual write Shakespeare to emphasize his view of the hit and miss (and miss again) nature…
NEW URBAN GHOSTS ARTICLE : Nazi Architecture: 10 Unsettling Relics of the Third Reich
While the emotional and cultural toll that Hitler’s Third Reich took on Europe and indeed the entire globe is still being felt today, this is not the only legacy left by Nazi Germany. The architecture and building projects undertaken during Hitler’s time as Fuhrer was nothing short of staggering [Click here for pictures or to…
MK Pinder Writes 