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Kerryn Goldsworthy

Yacker by Candida Baker & Rooms of Their Own by Jennifer Ellison

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July 1986, no. 82
Kerryn Goldsworthy reviews 'Yacker: Australian writers talking about their work' by Candida Baker and 'Rooms of their own' by Jennifer Ellison

Why do we like interviews so much? There must be a reason. Maybe it’s the lure – too often, alas, as in lurid – of confession: the ‘X Reveals All’ syndrome that deceives the mind into thinking it has always wanted to know what it is (finally) about to be told; or the more elevated sense of privilege and honour felt by those in whom such truths are confided.

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Abbreviations

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June 1986, no. 81
'Abbreviations' by Kerryn Goldsworthy

Vale John Hanrahan. Dear reader, if you think you miss him, you should see how I feel. I tried to get a Sydney person to take over this column. I really did. He said no. (Actually, he laughed.) So for those Sydney people who complain that ABR suffers from rampant Melbocentrism (and as a native of Adelaide I am far from blind to the ravages of this local disease, myself), bear in mind that the number of Sydney writers who get asked to write for ABR is considerably greater than the number who actually do. In the meantime I shall do my best, faute de mieux, since neither rain nor hail nor sleet etc., and ABR’s monthly deadline waits for no person …

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The Children’s Bach by Helen Garner

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February–March 1985, no. 68
Kerryn Goldsworthy reviews 'The Children’s Bach' by Helen Garner

The characters in Helen Garner’s new novella The Children’s Bach make up the kind of social molecule in at least one of which all of us feature as an atom.

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