David Wright

David Thomas Henry Wright has been published in Southerly, Seizure, and the anthology Duo. He has a masters degree from The University of Edinburgh and has lectured at China's top university, Tsinghua, where he developed courses in Creative Writing and Australian Literature. His novella, Paige & Powe, was awarded Highly Commended in Seizure's Viva La Novella IV competition. He has presented at various conferences, where he has delivered papers on Italo Calvino, Zadie Smith, Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace, and J.M. Coetzee. He is currently a PhD candidate at Murdoch University and co-editor of Westerly: New Creative. His website is www.davidthomashenrywright.com

David Thomas Henry Wright reviews 'Their brilliant careers: The fantastic lives of sixteen extraordinary Australian writers' by Ryan O'Neill

August 2016, no. 383 • 25 July 2016

In the acknowledgments of Their Brilliant Careers, the author gives thanks to Roberto Bolaño's Nazi Literature in the Americas (1996), which 'provides essential background information for the life of Rand Washington'. Washington, a popular science fiction author with eugenist views, is just one of the eccentrics summarised in O'Neill's fictional compendium. Like Bolaño's book, Their Brilliant Ca ... (read more)