In this edition of The Writer’s Block, Yankunytjatjara Australian poet Ali Cobby Eckermann talks about global English, the limits of the written word, and the exile of indigenous voices.
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Ali Cobby Eckermann, a Yankunytjatjara and Australian poet, read at City of Asylum’s 2014 Jazz Poetry Concert.
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Christos Tsiolkas visited City of Asylum Pittsburgh on April 27, 2010. In this video, Tsiolkas talks about his process constructing characters, writing about sex, The Slap’s reception, and Australian slang.
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An excerpt from Christos Tsiolkas’s novel The Slap, which explores the changing lifestyle of Australia’s middle-class and confronts issues such as multiculturalism, homophobia, and infidelity.
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In this video, Christos Tsiolkas reads an excerpt from his novel The Slap, which explores the changing lifestyle of Australia’s middle-class and confronts issues such as multiculturalism, homophobia, and infidelity.
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Here Alice Pung talks to Khet Mar about what kind of a writer she would be if she lived in Cambodia, her challenges as a Cambodian writer born in a different country, and Writers in Motion, a regional tour she’s currently on with other 8 writers exploring the Mid-Atlantic and South.
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