Some labels that might apply here include cross-genre writing, ficto-cricitism, immersion fiction, and so on.

This work has been collected in a virtual book called Heart, Mouth in my cd-rom Box of Words, with audio versions of some of the pieces, versions for reading on the screen and pdfs for printing to read later. The audio versions (with other cross-genre works) are also on my cd Body of Words, and both are available from Dogmedia.

If you want to have a taste, you can try out the mini-version of Box of Words at the dogmedia website, or check out these links.

'Another Day, Another Dollar'
This essay explores ideas about illness, work and social value, and the way that the federal government's proposed welfare changes will affect all of us. It was originally published in the Age as ''A Life Less Lived' on May 7th 2005.

"Bewitched -- Samantha, every witch way but lose"
A look back at magic of the original Bewitched television sit-com. (Originally published in the Age, 25th June 2005.)

"Big Brother is Watching: Watching Big Brother in Australia"
 Written on the eve of the second series, looking back at the first Australian 'Big Brother' and its social impact as a successful "media virus" (in Douglas Rushkoff's use of the phrase), and the possibilities inherent in bringing a daily dose of unpredictability to prime time television. First broadcast on Life Matters in March 2002.

'Giving it Away for Free / Spineless Books With Bite'
a version of this was originally published as 'Value-Adding Saves Poetry for the Masses' in the Review section of the Age, 20th November 2004; this piece is about using the web to publish small print-at-home-on-demand books. (For example, you can get a free copy of my poetry book, Things in A Glass Box here.)

"Who's Watching the Children?: The Beaumont Case Revisited"
First broadcast on ABC's Radio Eye, 27/1/1997; text version published in Southerly, "Close Up", 2001.

"I'd like to have permission to be postmodern, but I'm not sure who to ask.."
Jacket magazine - reprint of a paper originally presented at the National Book Council summit on "Authors, Authority and Authenticity" in September 1996 about my experiences with copyright law for How to Conceive of a Girl. An edited version was published in the Sydney Morning Herald in March 1997 and broadcast on ABC's Books & Writing.

"Those Two Little Words"
Australian Humanities Review, Sept. 2000 - a meditation on John Howard's reluctance  to apologise to Indigenous Australians on behalf of the nation. This essay was also broadcast on Radio Eye in December 2000.

"D-Cups, Groin Guards and Supermodels:  Writing the Body into History"
Australian Humanities Review, May 1998
(Note, if you are downloading this essay, that it's in two parts.) 

"Xed Again: or whatever happened to the Seventies?"
Ozlit - a "rolling column" reprinted from Australian Book Review, December 1995, about being part of the generation just younger than the baby boomers. 

"The Museum of Fire"
An essay about an imaginary radio piece based on five poems from Things in a Glass Box

"Mapping Desire: Christos Tsiolkas's Loaded"
Ozlit - a review of one of the best novels of the decade - made into the  film Head On, directed by Ana Kokkinos  - reprinted from Australian Book Review, October 1995. 

Cosmetic surgery and 'Makeover Culture', or: in Praise of Wrinkles
(The Age, October 2006)

Water wisdom? Healthy gardens & healthy communities
(The Age, October 2006)

"Making Tracks: W/edge 3"
Ozlit - text of my launch-speech for Western Sydney University's creative writing magazine, W/edge, January 1997 
 

"Come With Us To Adventure Island"  / "We'll Be Thinking of You"
some  information about a two part radio documentary, produced with Claudia Taranto for the ABC, on the classic 1960s Australian children's television program, Adventure Island.
 
 

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