Like many writers and readers, I was upset by recent news that MUP is shutting down essential literary journal Meanjin. I am even more angered to learn that they have refused several offers to relocate the masthead to a more hospitable institution. The loss of Meanjin is enormous, a big, multi-species-habitat tree falling in a…

Today The Book Show on Radio National broadcast the interview I recorded with them on my way to the Gadi launch of Salvage a couple of months ago. I had a lot of fun chatting with Claire Nichols about space billionaires, escape, survival, problematic sibling relationships, and the ambiguous sweet spot between utopia and dystopia.…