Luke Carman on Intimate Antipathies
Wed, 19 June
|Better Read Than Dead
Luke Carman is the award-winning author of the Australian cult classic An Elegant Young Man. He will discuss his highly anticipated essay collection Intimate Antipathies with Alice Grundy. There's even a mention of Better Read Than Dead in it!


Time & Location
19 June 2019, 6:30 pm
Better Read Than Dead, 265 King St, Newtown NSW 2042, Australia
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About The Event
Luke Carman is the award-winning author of the Australian cult classic An Elegant Young Man. He will discuss his highly anticipated essay collection Intimate Antipathies with Alice Grundy. There's even a mention of Better Read Than Dead in it!
About The Book
Intimate Antipathies is the much-anticipated new work by Luke Carman, award-winning author of the Australian cult classic An Elegant Young Man. The essays in this new book follow the writer in his oscillations through anxiety, outrage and ecstasy, and in doing so explore the connections between writing and dreaming, writing and mental illness, writing and the complications of family life.
From his famous jeremiad against arts administrators in ‘Getting Square in a Jerking Circle’, through the psychotic attack brought on by the collapse of his marriage, to his surreal account of meeting with Gerald Murnane at a golf club in the remote Victorian village of Goroke, Carman explores…
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