Check today’s date – because ten years from now life as we know it will no longer exist. A simple diagnosis from your doctor will involve consulting your genome sequence. Climate change will have altered every landscape. Virtual reality will be fully integrated into our everyday routines. We may not…
Listening to a sequence of sounds has no obvious survival value for humans. Yet according to a 2001 study by neuroscientists at the University of Montreal, music has the same effect on our brains as sex and good food. Why? It could be because with music we get whatever emotion…
Who is James Bradley? James Bradley is an author and critic. His books include the novels Wrack, The Deep Field and The Resurrectionist, all of which have won or been shortlisted for major Australian and international literary awards and been widely translated, a book of poetry, Paper Nautilus, and The…
No matter what your vocation in life, music can inspire you. It can lift and comfort. It can embrace and acknowledge. It can nullify your existential loneliness in a way unique to any other art form. It can unite us and connect us, make us think differently about situations and…
You know when you’ve been to the gym, or you’ve gone for that extra long walk, and your muscles are throbbing? You’re exhausted, yet feel good for it? Well, that’s how my writery mind feels today. This is what my weekend entailed… Friday night – GenreCon cocktail party Main activity:…
In Today’s Genre-Sensitive Publishing World, Might George Orwell Be *gasp* Unreadable? Ever since ‘genre’ was invented (by Plato and Aristotle, no less, when they divided ancient Greek literature into drama, poetry or prose), theorists have philosophized about the concept of genre, evolving and expanding it such that, today, genre and…
