Nicole Lee

Nicole Lee is a former Readings St Kilda bookseller

Review — 28 May 2013

Viennese Romance by David Vogel

In 2012, poet and novelist David Vogel posthumously set the Israeli literary world alight with his unpublished manuscript, Viennese Romance. Scribed on 15 large sheets of paper in tiny…

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Review — 29 Apr 2013

Bone Ash Sky by Katerina Cosgrove

In the first few pages of Katerina Cosgrove’s Bone Ash Sky, Anoush Pakradounian, an Armenian-Turkish American journalist, arrives in Beirut to report on a tribunal. Her father, a member…

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Review — 29 Apr 2013

Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls by David Sedaris

For his ninth book, humorist David Sedaris has pooled together stories as diverse and obscure as the collection’s title: Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls.

In his signature conversational style…

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Review — 1 Apr 2013

Harmless by Julienne van Loon

Harmless, Julienne van Loon’s third book, is a short, tight novella that deals with humans on the fringe. It follows eight-year-old Amanda and Thai born Rattuwat as they cross…

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Review — 25 Jul 2012

Winter Journal by Paul Auster

In a piece for The Paris Review, the interviewer comments that in Paul Auster’s novel Leviathan, the lead character Peter Aaron not only bears Auster’s initials, but is…

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Review — 22 Apr 2012

Let’s Pretend this Never Happened by Jenny Lawson

Jenny Lawson, aka The Bloggess, has written a memoir. Self-described as ‘Little House on the Prairie but with more cursing’, Lawson seeks to both mortify and endear her readers with…

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Review — 3 May 2012

Home by Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison’s tenth novel, Home, is a quiet revelation of masculinity and patriotism. In the opening image, Korean War veteran Frank observes the stance of horses as he hides…

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Review — 27 Feb 2012

As I Was Saying by Robert Dessaix

In a speech given by Robert Dessaix at the awards ceremony for the Calibre Prize in 2010, Dessaix pondered whether the art of the essay is dead. After all, he…

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Review — 27 Mar 2012

The New Republic by Lionel Shriver

Before her Orange Prize-winning novel, We Need To Talk About Kevin, Lionel Shriver wrote seven books, one of which was unable to find an American publisher. Due to her…

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