Joseph Earp Joseph Earp is a poet, philosopher, and journalist. All essays by Joseph Earp Review: Joseph Earpon Max Easton Paradise Estate by Max Easton Giramondo Publishing October 2023 288pp ISBN 9781922725844 The Slow Decline of the (Inner) West What happens to a cultural scene when making rent overtakes the urgency of making art? As Joseph Earp argues, this is the question posed by Max Easton’s Paradise Estate, a new novel charting the declining fortunes of the sharehouse coteries in inner-west Sydney. Nov. 2023 • Australian writers • Fiction • Sydney Review: Joseph Earpon Patricia Highsmith Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks by Patricia Highsmith Hachette Published March 2022 ISBN: 9781474617604 Be Cruel To Me The Highsmith of Diaries and Notebooks is not someone with a problem that needs to be fixed. It is someone who, gloriously, messily, looked around a nasty world filled with awful people, and saw nothing too fix, and felt no desire to change it. Oct. 2022 • Letters • Non-fiction
