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Jessica Au

Jessica Au is a former editor of Readings Monthly.

She is also the author of the novels, Cargo and Cold Enough for Snow.

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Welcome To Your New Life
by Anna Goldsworthy

Reviewed by
Jessica Au, Apr 2013

Anna Goldsworthy’s debut memoir, Piano Lessons, followed her emergence into the world of classical music and subsequent rise to fame. Her second, Welcome to Your New Life, is a record of the birth of her first child. It…

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Welcome To Normal
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The Rest is Weight
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They’re A Weird Mob
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Floundering
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Sweet Old World
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Recent blog posts by Jessica Au

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27 Jun 2013

July Highlights

Jessica Au, editor of Mid-winter takes us from the speculative world of mind-bending literati to a ragtag bunch of rural evangelists. Local house Sleepers has brought out its second debut of the year, Vanessa Russell’s Holy Bible – a darkly…
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Q&As and interviews
7 May 2013

Q&A with Anna Krien

In What drew you to explore this side of sporting culture? Did you feel that this was a book that needed to be written? It was the unfortunate ‘St Kilda Schoolgirl’ saga that caught my (and many others’) attention back…
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13 Nov 2012

What I loved: To Siberia by Per Petterson

Readings Monthly It is possible to think about reading as a series of turning points. Every now and then, a book comes along like a shock – making and breaking, staying with you. It’s an ‘ah’ moment of recognition, when…
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7 Nov 2012

Q&A with Geordie Williamson, author of The Burning Library

Geordie Williamson chats with Jessica Au about his new book, Tell us about writing The germ of an idea came with 2009’s Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature. I thought the project brilliant. It was a physically handsome book…
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29 Sep 2012

Q&A with Andrew Croome, author of Midnight Empire

Andrew Croome chats with Jessica Au about his novel, Tell us about the research process for Before writing the book I travelled to Las Vegas, where I visited most of the poker rooms and spoke to a lot of players…
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27 Sep 2012

Q&A with Lily Brett, author of Lola Bensky

Lily Brett chats with Jessica Au about her new novel, Lola Bensky I think that one way or another we all write from our own experience. No-one else is creating the characters or the stories. Whether the facts or the…
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20 Sep 2012

Covers Spotlight

Jessica Au from Readings St Kilda rounds up the best in new book design for the next instalment of our irregular covers appreciation series. The Newlyweds Sepia tones and an image of old-fashioned domesticity is jacked up and electrified by…
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11 Sep 2012

Q&A with Toni Jordan, author of Nine Days

Toni Jordan chats with Jessica Au about her new book, Tell us about writing After I finished Fall Girl, I had no idea whatsoever. Nothing. Unlike many writers I know, I find ideas the hardest part of the process…
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