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LiteraryMinded

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About Me

Angela Meyer (aka Miss LiteraryMinded): Australian Gen Y writer.
Short fiction, essays, reviews and interviews seen in print in…
Hecate, Australian Women’s Book Review, Viewpoint, The Sex Mook by Vignette Press, Idiom 23, and Lip Magazine.
Upcoming in Southerly, Sketch, The Death Mook, and Page Seventeen.
And online in…
Cordite Poetry Review, Slow Trains, Greenbeard, The Short Review, and UK poetry website Metaroar.
Upcoming in Mascara.
Other literary-minded things…
Editorial Assistant at Bookseller+Publisher magazine in Melbourne.
Completing a thesis of short stories based on consumerism, materialism and technology.
Polishing Smoke & Dancing, my novel, which has been through Varuna on Peter Bishop’s Pathways to Publication Masterclass.
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My Interests

I am literature.

I'd like to meet:


Writers, artists, musicians, philosophers, beautiful people and dark people, curious minds, open minds. People who tell the truth.
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Music:

David Bowie
The Eagles
Beach Boys
Coldplay
Billy Joel
Elton John
Led Zeppelin
The Doors
Jose Gonzales
Deftones
Pink Floyd
Nirvana
The Beatles
Neil Young
Cream
Phillip Glass
Michael Jackson
Chris Isaak
Band of Horses
Basic Shape

Movies:

The Hours
Gia
Dead Poets Society
Life Is Beautiful
Ghostbusters
ET
Free Willy
Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind
Bottle Rocket
Royal Tenenbaums
Lost in Translation
American Beauty
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
Girl Interrupted
Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Wizard of Oz
Some Like It Hot
Boogie Nights
Magnolia
Collateral
Rebel Without a Cause
Midnight Cowboy
Resevoir Dogs
Goodfellas
Taxi Driver
Lolita
Full Metal Jacket
The Misfits
Wonderboys
Shanghai Noon
Annie Hall
Ed Wood
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Edward Scissorhands
Schindler's List
Thank You For Smoking
Before Sunrise
Before Sunset
Fast Food Nation
The Darjeeling Limited

Television:

Simpsons

Books:

1984 - George Orwell
The Myth of Sisyphus and The Outsider - Albert Camus
The Bell Jar, Ariel and Journals - Sylvia Plath
Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse
The Trout Opera - Matthew Condon
Affluenza - Clive Hamilton
Blood & Tinsel - Jim Sharman
The Trial, Diaries and collected short fiction - Franz Kafka
Girl Interrupted - Susannah Keysen
Grace - Robert Drewe
Blonde - Joyce Carol Oates
Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando and the complete short fiction - Virginia Woolf
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
Dark Roots - Cate Kennedy
The Hours and Specimen Days- Michael Cunningham
Prochownik's Dream - Alex Miller
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkein
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
The Boat - Nam Le
Death In Venice & Other Stories - Thomas Mann
The French Lieutenants Woman - John Fowles
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Sixty Lights, Dreams of Speaking and Sorry - Gail Jones

Heroes:

Mum, Dad and sis.

My Blog

Help! I might spontaneously combust!

I'm shouting out today because I'd love your help. You may have read today's post about my BURNING idea. I am officially beginning research. I would love to know if you have any magazines from the mid...
Posted by LiteraryMinded on Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:16:00 PST

LiteraryMinded now a CRIKEY blog.

Strewth! I am very excited to report that the cool folks at Crikey, Australia's fantastic news website, have adopted me. Visit here: LiteraryMinded. Thanks for your continual readership and support...
Posted by LiteraryMinded on Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:19:00 PST

Antony Loewenstein on The Blogging Revolution and MWF wrap-up

I've done quite an extensive interview with Antony Loewenstein on his interesting, fascinating, and highly readable new book The Blogging Revolution. My last few posts gave you all the goss on Mebour...
Posted by LiteraryMinded on Wed, 10 Sep 2008 03:31:00 PST

Melbourne Writers Festival Diary

Part One is up today over at LiteraryMinded, and Part Two after next weekend! It's been full on and fantastic so far - read about who I saw and caught up with.   Angela aka Miss LiteraryMinded...
Posted by LiteraryMinded on Mon, 25 Aug 2008 03:22:00 PST

Blood & Tinsel: Interview with Rocky Horror director Jim Sharman

Sharman says... 'If you look at, say, Andy Warhol's Flower paintings, you are instantly struck by the colour  the intensity of the almost fluorescent flowers. This is because they're silk-screened bo...
Posted by LiteraryMinded on Sat, 09 Aug 2008 09:40:00 PST

Remix My Lit

Songs and sounds can be grabbed and mixed; films can be spliced, homaged or spoofed; so what about literature? A new initiative lets you mix-up some fantastic short fiction by prominent writers - piec...
Posted by LiteraryMinded on Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:50:00 PST

New reviews!

Hello lovelies, I haven't blogged on here for a little while. Life has been chaos with moving state, new job (Bookseller & Publisher Magazine), new life after my European jaunt. I am loving Melbou...
Posted by LiteraryMinded on Sun, 18 May 2008 12:53:00 PST

Dead Women republished...

You can now read all of my short story Dead Women, plus two of my book reviews and a film review in Greenbeard, a new literary journal. Get to it via my blog... LiteraryMinded Please comment at...
Posted by LiteraryMinded on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:20:00 PST

I’m Afraid of the Five-Blade Razor...

Affluenza: When Too Much is Never Enough - Clive Hamilton and Richard Denniss. Allen & Unwin, 2005, 9781741146714. Three years ago Clive Hamilton half-jokingly referred to the possibility of the...
Posted by LiteraryMinded on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 05:15:00 PST

A Literary-Minded Day In London...

Read the full article (with pictures) here.   A dreary, overcast morning (typical London I’m told). I have been awake for hours  jetlagged, adrenaline-filled, foreign. Abbey Road is a long...
Posted by LiteraryMinded on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:37:00 PST