Comments for Overland literary journal

Comment on ‘Love is a madness most discreet’: The Red and the Black, A Chronicle of 1830 by Stendhal by Clare

Clare — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:04:39 +0000

“I can pick the right uniform for my century.” Gotta love a man who knows the power of costume. Such a good read, thanks Jane.

Comment on ‘Love is a madness most discreet’: The Red and the Black, A Chronicle of 1830 by Stendhal by Ben Eltham

Ben Eltham — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:53:43 +0000

I love this novel so much

Comment on All about happiness, tra-la-la by gus

gus — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:10:57 +0000

Dignity is an old analogue of happiness. The dignity, say, of having a job. Stephen is saying that the situation is worse than merely pathologising unemployment.
btw love the ‘there does seem to be a lot of grabbing going on’ – neurotic hysterical levels of it.

Comment on All about happiness, tra-la-la by gus

gus — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:41:19 +0000

And that’s why you are so deserving of your editor’s generous respect.

Comment on All about happiness, tra-la-la by Stephen Wright

Stephen Wright — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:21:26 +0000

Gus: all definitions of happiness and madness should be up for grabs these days. And there does seem to be a lot of grabbing going on. Maybe madness used to be a good way to pathologise people, put them in their appointed places, but now, maybe we’re moving to, as you say, a more dread kind of categorisation – the unhappy: “Life is for living full and well!!” etc etc.
There’s a t-shirt that the Museum of Jurassic Technology put out that has a quote from Proust on it: “Dispirited after a dreary day with the prospect of a depressing tomorrow.” I don’t want to privilege misery any more than I want to privilege happiness, but I think I’d like to argue for a satisfactory melancholia that thinks on the well-being of others.

Comment on All about happiness, tra-la-la by gus

gus — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:05:27 +0000

Perchance happiness is midsummer madness. Jove, I thank thee, I will smile.

Comment on All about happiness, tra-la-la by gus

gus — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:50:44 +0000

I’m tempted to wonder if this depressive state as Stephen has just identified it is oft associated with functionality for good reason. It certainly is the most efficient, the most cost effective and the most pragmatic modus operandi in current local conditions. Why does one have to pay so dearly for questioning the norms? Perhaps one who does so is open to dread categories such as depressed and unhappy

Comment on Dispatch from our intern by Rose

Rose — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 06:44:52 +0000

Thanks for reading, Sharon!

Comment on Dispatch from our intern by Sharon Callaghan

Sharon Callaghan — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:34:01 +0000

Thanks for great links.

Comment on Infrared by Clare

Clare — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 07:53:22 +0000

Thanks Georgia.
Not sure about the book but 100% convinced I want to be in Italy sipping wine with lunch & looking forward to a siesta.

Comment on My first year as Overland fiction editor by Jane GW

Jane GW — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 01:10:46 +0000

Dear anonymous – I’m extremely sorry to hear that’s happened and it definitely should not have happened. I have never declined a story without sending a letter to the author and as far as I know no one else at Overland has either. If you could send an email to Overland so we know which story you’re talking about, I’ll follow it up.
In the meantime – I apologise. You are so right: all submissions deserve a reply. That’s how we run it.

Comment on The Tent Embassy protests – a lesson in overreaction and social context by Kieran

Kieran — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 02:16:54 +0000

I was also at the protest and agree completely with the comments made by Sam Castro above. It was quite surreal waking up each morning for at least a week afterwards to the radio reporting ‘another revelation’ regarding the ‘violent protest’ at the embassy, and then seeing the Libs running with that angle to score cheap political points. It is also ironic that (the imagined) violence was deployed as a criticism by commentators who simultaneously praised the history of the embassy, ignoring the fact that the embassy was itself born from violence, from both militant activists and a police repression.

Thanks for the great piece.

Comment on A literature that refuses to go missing by Clare

Clare — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:44:09 +0000

Most definitely time to subscribe to Southerly, then. Excellent review, thanks Jennifer.

Comment on A literature that refuses to go missing by Elizabeth Humphrys

Elizabeth Humphrys — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:00:14 +0000

Great review Jennifer – I now can’t wait to get my hands on it. Much appreciated!

Comment on A literature that refuses to go missing by Jane GW

Jane GW — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:26:02 +0000

Thanks for this excellent review Jennifer and for putting this important issue of Southerly out here. Yes to more hearing of Aboriginal voices – and to more listening to, too.
And yes, very sobering to think that FOUR years have elapsed since the Apology, which has so far gone pretty much nowhere under this Labor government.
Look forward to reading Southerly 71:2 a lot.