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Emmett Stinson

@emmettstinson.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer in Creative Humanities, Edith Cowan University. Writing, publishing, literary culture, contemporary literature. Views mine etc.

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Kill Your Darlings @kydmagazine.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
@emmettstinson.bsky.social on the legacy of the most mythologised of modernists in Deborah Levy’s ‘My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein’. Read more: www.killyourdarlings.com.au/article/desp...
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Kill Your Darlings @kydmagazine.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Deborah Levy’s latest novel journeys to Paris to explore the legacy of the queer avant-garde pioneer Gertrude Stein. Read our new review by @emmettstinson.bsky.social, where he explores the lasting significance of one of the most mythical of modernists. Read more: buff.ly/8yVSWcY
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Malt Lick Nursery @maltlicknursery.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Éliane Radigue - l'écoute virtuose 24 January , 1932 - 23 February 2026 vimeo.com/905500612?fe...
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Eliane Radigue l’écoute virtuose
This is "Eliane Radigue l’écoute virtuose" by Anaïs Prosaïc on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 23/02/2026
Opinion |  "Australian literary culture needs funding that will enable organisations to make truly long-term plans, rather than going through bouts of feast and famine," @emmettstinson.bsky.social writes.
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Writers Victoria's funding has been cut to $0. It's part of a broader arts funding crisis in Australia
I taught a course at Writers Victoria to roughly 12 aspiring writers. One has since published five novels, and another has published two books that have won or been shortlisted for major literary…
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Tim Groenland @groenbot.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
This is from a great new essay by @emmettstinson.bsky.social www.erudit.org/en/journals/...
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Gerald Murnane’s Transnational Reception – Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture
An article from Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture, on Érudit.
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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I co-edited this bilingual issue of Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture w/ @julienlf.bsky.social (an excellent collaborator). It's all open access.
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Politiques de la visibilité et de la découvrabilité dans l’édition contemporaine. Volume 16, Number 2, Fall 2025 – Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture
Read this issue of the journal Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture on Érudit. Discipline: Literary Studies, History.
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Emmett Stinson @emmettstinson.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
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Emmett Stinson @emmettstinson.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
I wasn't sure about this at first but I'm now 2/3rds through and enjoying it very much. I wish the writing was more stylish but could a novel even win the Miles Franklin if it weren't a little clunky in places?
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Emmett Stinson @emmettstinson.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Carey is one of Australia’s greatest short story writers just from his two early collections. He could have been one of our best writers. Instead, he became an internationally successful novelist. Hard to fault him for it, but still a loss for literature. www.theage.com.au/culture/book...
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Peter Carey says he’s done writing novels: ‘You have to know when it’s enough’
The Australian literary giant has confirmed there won’t be another novel from him.
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Emmett Stinson @emmettstinson.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Helen Garner at the launch of HEAT in Perth
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Emmett Stinson @emmettstinson.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
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Alice Grundy @alicektg.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Brilliant dataset on literary prizes - and a way to track trends and changes over time - from Katherine Binhammer and colleagues : data.post45.org/posts/britis... Digital humanities are go.
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Selected British Literary Prizes (1990-2022) – Post45 Data Collective
The Selected British Literary Prizes (SBLP) dataset contains information on nine major literary prizes in the U.K. from 1990 to 2022 and demographic information on 682 prize winners and shortlisted au...
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Emmett Stinson @emmettstinson.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
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amethystclassic.bsky.social @amethystclassic.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
“…while Solzhenitsyn suffered in the gulag, Amerena’s characters suffer in an environment even more soul-destroying: Melbourne literary dinner parties.” Golden.
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Emmett Stinson @emmettstinson.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
I reviewed Dominic Amerena's I Want Everything for Kill Your Darlings. www.killyourdarlings.com.au/article/aust...
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Australia’s Literary Impostor Syndrome
In the absence of a thriving avant-garde, I Want Everything conjures an alternate history.
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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Just finished doing some public policy analysis for a UK group. The UK has a lot of lessons to teach Australia - stay the absolute fuck away from every policy prescription the UK undertook on every area of public policy over the last two generations. And completely ignore their campaign brainworms.
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Melbourne City of Literature Office @melcityoflit.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
can't argue with this!
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Doug Wallen @dougwallen.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
gorgeous stuff out of Tasmania troth.bandcamp.com/album/an-unf...
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An Unfinished Rose, by Troth
9 track album
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Emmett Stinson @emmettstinson.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
The “epic handshake” meme template, the text over the left arms says “sonic the hedgehog, the text over the right arm says “philip k dick”, the text over the clasped hands says “fixing all your problems with more speed”
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Dave Graney @davegraney.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
RIP David Thomas from Pere Ubu. One of the outfits who made punk so great for me. youtu.be/KjzZSHPuZBA?...
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My Dark Ages (Live)
YouTube video by Pere Ubu - Topic
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Emmett Stinson @emmettstinson.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
RIP David Thomas youtu.be/cQR4yZC2cJw?...
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Pere Ubu - The Fabulous Sequel {1979}
YouTube video by Worried Tunes 2
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Chris Somerville @chrisomerville.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
it's the halcyon days for me and my seven uncles who are manufacturing our own line of TVs in our backyard shed that can explode and kill you
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aptronym @aptronym.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
@causticcovercritic.bsky.social @timcoronel.bsky.social @thebooksdesk.bsky.social @emmettstinson.bsky.social
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Emmett Stinson @emmettstinson.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
One of my favourite writers—a huge loss for literature. Buy one of his books today if you’ve never read him!
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Luca Demetriadi @lucambd.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
I’m deeply affected by this review of Murnane’s Border Districts on Goodreads
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Patrick Marlborough @cormacmccafe.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
who are THE Australian book reviewers who SHOULD review my upcoming debut novel, NOCK LOOSE???
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Emmett Stinson @emmettstinson.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Bought this lovely hardback copy of Camille’s Bread last week in an op shop for a fiver. Is the Amanda who signed it…um…you know…?
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Emmett Stinson @emmettstinson.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Starting off the work-at-home morning with some uh happy music
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Emmett Stinson @emmettstinson.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
top-notch op shop cop
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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 14/02/2025
No country for old media.
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Emmett Stinson @emmettstinson.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?
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Emmett Stinson @emmettstinson.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
People just keep releasing novels with the title The + [weird, non-idiomatic gerund] -- each one a little weirder and less idiomatic than the last.
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Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
A lament that Jen Craig has no wikipedia page. Oh well, maybe this from @emmettstinson.bsky.social is a good starter... theconversation.com/bad-art-frie...
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Bad art friends – Jen Craig may be the best Australian writer you’ve never heard of
Jen Craig’s new novel Wall confirms she is an ambitious writer in the best sense: she wants to convey deeply conflicted and even contradictory states of being in the world.
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Emmett Stinson @emmettstinson.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Looks like I'm never leaving this corner of the house again ever
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Patrick Marlborough @cormacmccafe.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I don’t know how else to put it, but: I think a serious problem faced by OzLit is that there is absolutely nothing cool about it. We have not produced a cool author, a cool book, in decades, arguably ever tbh.
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Emmett Stinson @emmettstinson.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
This is an absolutely beautiful print object but not an easy read...
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James Ley @jamesley.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Alice Grundy on the implications of the Text / PRH merger theconversation.com/the-acquisit...
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The acquisition of Text Publishing by Penguin Random House is part of a worrying trend in Australian publishing
Mergers within the Australian publishing industry have significant implications for the literary culture.
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Emmett Stinson @emmettstinson.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Seems as bad a time as any for this...
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Emmett Stinson @emmettstinson.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
This was an incredible reading experience—and surprisingly propulsive despite the novel’s difficulty. The first 100 pages are so unbelievably great that the novel can’t quite maintain that level, but this is true of a lot of great books (eg White Noise).
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Emmett Stinson @emmettstinson.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Managed to find two interesting books in a not very good bookshop. The guy at the counter said, ‘Hmmm, these are a bit off the beaten path…but I’m sure you’ll enjoy them!’
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Emmett Stinson @emmettstinson.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Came to Roden too late but this is fantastic steveroden.bandcamp.com/album/oionos
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oionos, by Steve Roden
1 track album
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Emmett Stinson @emmettstinson.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Enjoyed this funny, metafictional novella about a French author self-consciously trying to write an 'American' novel.
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Emmett Stinson @emmettstinson.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Finished Annihilation, which answers the question 'What if Michel Houellebecq wrote a Jonathan Franzen novel?'
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matt be @mattbe.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
1: Mark an X in remote woodland on a map 2: Add note saying “If anything happens to me, the money’s buried here.” 3: Put map in suit pocket 4: Give suit to charity shop
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Daniel Kennedy @fliglman.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Maybe the books don't want you to read them, ever think of that?
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Emmett Stinson @emmettstinson.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Several years ago, I tried to read Oguz Atay's The Disconnected and gave up because of the poor quality of the translation. What a joy finally to read his work in elegant, idiomatic English!
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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
before i got banned from this online poker site i used to tell people i was driving the whole time i was playing and they always lost their shit
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