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Gerard Elson

Gerard Elson is a bookseller at Readings St Kilda.

Featured Review

Dancing in the Dark: My Struggle Book 4
by Karl Ove Knausgaard

Reviewed by
Gerard Elson, Feb 2015

Cards on the table: at time of writing I haven’t yet finished this, the fourth volume in Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘autobiographical novel’ cycle. In his almost punishingly expansive style previous volumes have immersed readers, with varying degrees of reflective interjection…

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Two Frank Thrings
by Peter Fitzpatrick

Reviewed by
Gerard Elson, Jul 2012

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Recent blog posts by Gerard Elson

Music
14 Nov 2017

Gerard Elson on the importance of The Damage Report

You have to admit, it’s a crazy idea. Beginning February 25, 2016, Zo Damage, Melburnian gig photographer extraordinaire, would photograph at least one live band per calendar entry over the next year. For obvious reasons, the endeavour came to be…
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News
17 May 2015

Gerard Elson wins Young Bookseller of the Year

St Kilda staff member Gerard Elson was named Young Bookseller of the Year at the 2015 ABA Conference last night. We’re enormously proud. Here, he tells us his favourite books to handsell and why publishers must continue to be ‘daring’…
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Books
9 Feb 2015

Choose your own adventure: the John Darnielle edition

MOVE 1. Summer, St Kilda. Strolling Acland Street, you dispose of your empty frozen yoghurt cup and peel off into Readings Books. The store’s cool interior is a welcome respite from the cramming heat outside: perfect conditions for browsing. You…
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Books
8 Apr 2014

Shame in Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle series

Last week saw the release of Boyhood Island, the third volume in Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle series, and over the weekend the Guardian published a piece by Hari Kunzru asking is the author brave or shameless? Here, bookseller…
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Film & TV
9 Jul 2013

What I Loved: House of Pleasures by Bertrand Bonello

When it screened at last year’s Alliance Française French Film Festival, Bertrand Bonello’s lavish, lugubrious fin de siècle bore the superior title House of Tolerance. The term was a euphemism for a brothel around the turn of the twentieth…
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Books
23 Oct 2012

Five Scary Films To Watch This Halloween

Our film specialist, Gerard Elson, picks out five great DVDs to watch this Halloween. Cabin in the Woods Scripted by geek doyen Joss Whedon, this is a gleeful subversion of every hackneyed trope in the horror movie handbook, made electric…
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Books
19 Aug 2012

Q&A with Terence Davies, director of The Deep Blue Sea

Our film specialist Gerard Elson chats with iconic director, Terence Davies. Terence Davies’s The Deep Blue Sea – just his seventh feature film in 27 years – is an adaptation of Terrence Rattigan’s same-titled play from 1952, previously brought to…
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