The slash pile
The cheap thrills of fan fiction
By Linda Jaivin
Ever imagined Paul Keating and Germaine Greer getting it on to the rhythm of Keating’s Redfern speech? Jennifer Byrne has. Brendan Cowell has done it with a bhang lassi–infused Aussie cricket team. Noni Hazlehurst, Toby Schmitz and I have done it too –
Brides revisited
Margaret Atwood comes to Perth
By Chloe Hooper
“Oh, boy, that’s a ghostly-looking thing!”
Margaret Atwood, the grand dame of Canadian letters, is impressed by an antique lace veil suspended alone in a glass exhibit case. A slight woman with high, translucent cheekbones and very pale bl