Overland 254 is the first in a set of four special editions dedicated to commemorating 70 years of Overland. This issue also launches a new design and format by Common Room Editions, inspired by Overland’s trove of radical literature spanning from 1954 to today. Andrew Brooks and Astrid Lorange consider the asymmetrical responses to two events: the wearing of keffiyehs by three cast members during the Sydney Theatre Company’s production of Anton Chekov’s The Seagull, and, on the same day in the US, the shooting of three Palestinian men wearing keffiyehs. Jeff Sparrow uncovers the Sydney Herald’s legacy of Terra Nullius, and Daniel Lopez writes on Marx, Meredith and the festival as an inversion of modern life.
Patton Quinn is a writer, a teacher and a single mother. She currently works in the political sector as a bill editor. She earned her graduate degree in humanities from St Edward’s University. You can find her work in such places as McSweeney’s Internet Tendencies, Wanderlust Journal, Matchbook Series, Elephant Journal, Awakenings Review, Rebellesociety.com, and Rag Queen Periodical. She lives in her hometown, Austin, Texas, with her daughter, Edith Anne, and their scruffy old buddy, Andy, a terrier from the mean streets of Dallas. When not doing life chores, they spend time hiking, painting, baking, or playing make believe in some capacity.
