David Brooks
David Brooks is the author of The Book of Sei (1987), which was described in the National Times as ‘the most exciting short-fiction debut in Australia since Peter Carey’s The Fat Man in History’. His most recent novel is The Conversation (2012). His fifth collection of poetry, Open House, will be published in early 2015. He is an Honorary Associate Professor in Australian Literature at the University of Sydney, and co-editor of Southerly.
All essays by David Brooks
The Wall, the Gate, the Balcony: The Snow Kimono by Mark Henshaw
The Snow Kimono not only exemplifies just such a maturation, it gives us a unique opportunity to conduct, with Out of the Line of Fire, a kind of textbook before-and-after comparison. From a certain perspective, that is to say, and without in any way suggesting that it is the same tale, the new novel shares enough key features with Henshaw’s first book that one can think of it as a kind of reprise.