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The Best of the Lifted Brow: Volume One
Since 2007, The Lifted Brow has grown into Australia's most exciting literary magazine, publishing hot local talent like Benjamin Law, Romy Ash, and Anna Krien alongside international stars like Karen Russell, Heidi Julavits, and David Foster Wallace.
The Best of The Lifted Brow celebrates five years of sheer nerve and dangerous excess. Alongside strange, sharp fiction from Frank Moorhouse, Christos Tsiolkas, and Rick Moody, there's personal essay and reportage that ranges wide and digs deep: Luke Ryan gets cancer twice, Michaela McGuire sabotages her casino job, Liam Pieper investigates how cocaine gets to Australia, and Alice Pung discovers just how different girls can grow up to be.
The Best of The Lifted Brow celebrates five years of sheer nerve and dangerous excess. Alongside strange, sharp fiction from Frank Moorhouse, Christos Tsiolkas, and Rick Moody, there's personal essay and reportage that ranges wide and digs deep: Luke Ryan gets cancer twice, Michaela McGuire sabotages her casino job, Liam Pieper investigates how cocaine gets to Australia, and Alice Pung discovers just how different girls can grow up to be.
288 pages, Paperback
First published September 25, 2013
51 people want to read
About the author
Ronnie Scott
21 books43 followersRonnie Scott writes essays and criticism for newspapers, websites and magazines. In 2007 he founded The Lifted Brow, an independent literary magazine. He's a Lecturer in the Writing and Publishing discipline at RMIT University. The Adversary is his first novel.
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January 30, 2014
Collections of short stories don't tend to sit right with me because I like to binge-read, and reading several short stories in a row (as opposed to binging on a novel) makes me feel like I'm not actually giving myself time to appreciate each story. But I want to read more than one at a time because one is just not enough! Thus, conflict.
This collection contains stories of great quality. Some were funny or incisive non-fiction and some were brilliant fiction. Writing short stories is an art, a different art to longer-form stories. I can see how the short story form has amazing value (and the ones in this collection are great, if so sprawling in nature as to be disjointed), but my finicky habits restrict me from enjoying collections like these regularly.
This collection contains stories of great quality. Some were funny or incisive non-fiction and some were brilliant fiction. Writing short stories is an art, a different art to longer-form stories. I can see how the short story form has amazing value (and the ones in this collection are great, if so sprawling in nature as to be disjointed), but my finicky habits restrict me from enjoying collections like these regularly.
December 20, 2013
While I'm not a regular reader of The Lifted Brow, this collection made me want to make the effort more often. Though there were high and low points the mix of fiction and non-fiction in short gulps made it perfect for my reading habits (on the train, on lunch break, waiting for my coffee) and there were several pieces I really enjoyed.
June 29, 2014
Some really great shit in here. The Lifted Brow is a small aussie literary journal btw.
October 18, 2017
Summary
The Best of the Lifted Brow edited by Ronnie Scott is a collection of some of the best pieces from the first five years of The Lifted Brow magazine.
The Lifted Brow is an Australian literary magazine published quarterly.
The book includes a mix of fiction and nonfiction, such as personal essays and short stories. The pieces have various themes and styles, from humour to romance.
Contributors include Australian authors such as Benjamin Law and Alice Pung, and international authors such as Heidi Julavits and David Foster Wallace.
Each piece has a distinct voice, and the language is polished and unique.
Review
Some pieces I loved, some I enjoyed and some I found hard to like, which made it difficult to give the book an overall rating.
My favourite piece was America written by Sam Cooney. He drove around America with his ex-girlfriend and they parked their van in Various Walmarts overnight. He educates the reader about Walmart in a creative way. I loved the writing style, reading about his adventures around America, and learning about Walmart in an interesting way.
I also enjoyed a number of other pieces.
Reports From the Streets of Brisbane written Michaela McGuire reports interesting stories from her job at a casino, The Santosbrazzi Killer written Heidi Julavits incorporates both dark humour and office life, and More Women of Mystery written by David Handler and illustrated by Lisa Brown is a collection of portraits and descriptions of interesting women.
I love how each piece is creative, distinct and polished. Even if I didn't like the topic of each piece, I admired the writing. Each author has a unique voice and skilful writing.
I recommend this book for anyone who's 15 years and older and is interested in reading The Lifted Brow or short well written pieces.
The Best of the Lifted Brow edited by Ronnie Scott is a collection of some of the best pieces from the first five years of The Lifted Brow magazine.
The Lifted Brow is an Australian literary magazine published quarterly.
The book includes a mix of fiction and nonfiction, such as personal essays and short stories. The pieces have various themes and styles, from humour to romance.
Contributors include Australian authors such as Benjamin Law and Alice Pung, and international authors such as Heidi Julavits and David Foster Wallace.
Each piece has a distinct voice, and the language is polished and unique.
Review
Some pieces I loved, some I enjoyed and some I found hard to like, which made it difficult to give the book an overall rating.
My favourite piece was America written by Sam Cooney. He drove around America with his ex-girlfriend and they parked their van in Various Walmarts overnight. He educates the reader about Walmart in a creative way. I loved the writing style, reading about his adventures around America, and learning about Walmart in an interesting way.
I also enjoyed a number of other pieces.
Reports From the Streets of Brisbane written Michaela McGuire reports interesting stories from her job at a casino, The Santosbrazzi Killer written Heidi Julavits incorporates both dark humour and office life, and More Women of Mystery written by David Handler and illustrated by Lisa Brown is a collection of portraits and descriptions of interesting women.
I love how each piece is creative, distinct and polished. Even if I didn't like the topic of each piece, I admired the writing. Each author has a unique voice and skilful writing.
I recommend this book for anyone who's 15 years and older and is interested in reading The Lifted Brow or short well written pieces.
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