Anna MacDonald

Anna MacDonald is a writer and bookseller. A masthead critic at Splice, her work also appears regularly in 3:AM Magazine and The Australian Book Review. She lives in Melbourne.
All essays by Anna MacDonald
Some Devoted Act of Seeing: Crudo by Olivia Laing
In Crudo, Laing’s most recent book and her debut novel, the ground has shifted again. She is still an outsider – this is, for Laing, the natural position for an artist – but her point of view – an auto-fictional eye, principally narrated in the third person, who borrows from the life and work of Kathy Acker – is directed towards the inner life and the picture theatre of the mind.
Oct. 2018 •
Fiction