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From commune-dwellers to lodgers in miniature, the people we live alongside make intriguing subjects for fiction

Sean O’Beirne looks at Helen Garner’s writing life so far – from Monkey Grip to the recently published Diaries.

Sean O’Beirne looks at Helen Garner’s writing life so far – from Monkey Grip to the recently published Diaries.

Helen Garner is the pioneer of fearless self-revelation in Australian literature. Writer Sean OBeirne examines his own literary fear and fearlessness: should he ‘give’ more, as Garner does?

With some three million podcasts out there, how to know which ones to choose? Here are our expert picks for summer listening.

Classic gear: Japanese-made and US-inspired, this hot-rodded solidbody is a modern classic

When Arlo Enemark launched the Watermelon Boy project in late 2015, he was interested in merging the future bass sound popular in Melbourne and Sydney with some of the exciting electronic music trends coming out of the Caribbean and Central and South America.

Novelists are told not to include dreams but this writer argues they – and power naps – have a well-deserved place.

Local authors including Helen Garner, Marcia Langton, Sophie Cunningham and Gideon Haigh discuss the locations in and around Melbourne that have inspired their prose.

Kate Grenville, Sofie Laguna, Julia Baird and others: the 20 best Australian books of 2020 Brigid Delaney, Beejay Silcox, Paul Daley, Steph Harmon, Stephanie Convery, Thuy On, Bec Kavanagh, Michael Williams, Paul Daley, Fiona Wright and Lucy Clark 1. Lucky’s by Andrew Pippos Picador This novel is a saga in the truest definition of that word, spanning more than 50 years of one Greek-Australian family and the rise and fall of their cafe franchise. The story of Lucky’s follows ...