Chris Dite
Chris Dite is a former Readings Carlton bookseller
Review — 24 Aug 2014
Vogliamo Tutto (we want everything) by Nanni Balestrini
The student and worker movements of the late sixties in France and Italy are often not well understood these days. More often than not, they are depicted in contemporary film…
Review — 22 Jul 2014
Here Come the Dogs by Omar Musa
Omar Musa’s new verse novel swaggers charmingly onto the scene. It follows a group of crude, sometimes violent and partially talented young guys as they take drugs, get tattoos, pick…
Review — 24 Nov 2013
Equilateral by Ken Kalfus
Ken Kalfus’ latest offering, very loosely based on Victorian scientific speculation, follows a nineteenth-century English astronomer’s attempt to build a giant equilateral triangle filled with petroleum in the Egyptian desert…
Blog post — 11 Nov 2013
What I Loved: Because a White Man'll Never Do it by Kevin Gilbert
Sometimes publishers make bold choices. The recent re-publication of Kevin Gilbert’s polemic from the 1970s, Because a White Man’ll Never Do It, is such a choice. Gilbert, a co-founder…
Review — 28 Jul 2013
Griffith Review 41: Now We are Ten edited by Julianne Schultz
This tenth anniversary edition of the Griffith REVIEW steers clear of a self-congratulatory birthday and gets straight to the point: what does the future hold for Australia and the world…