‘Good father, OK husband, shithouse lover’. In adapting his book Love Stories with his wife for a new play, Trent Dalton decides to remove his rose-coloured glasses and face up to his flaws.
For 23 years, as a working journalist, I have been documenting Australians who simply refuse to succumb to whatever pervading darkness threatens to blacken their light. These stories are the keepers.
Who is the mysterious girl in this exclusive extract from the new novel by the Boy Swallows Universe author? Lola in the Mirror is released on October 4.
Nobody tells you about the weeping footsores. Or the heatstroke. Or the musculoskeletal disorders. Homeless women in particular dare not speak of what happens to them after dark. But they do tell Brendan Clark.
Leigh Sales interviewed Trent Dalton for her new book about storytellers. What happens when we turn the tables, and ask him to interview her about politics, the Logies … and Leigh’s terrible undies?
Barry Humphries turned toying with mortals into a televisual art form. He turned taking the piss into cultural practice. And, maybe the thing I’ll remember most about him, he turned darkness into light.
Trent Dalton leads our new series, in which our writers recall the poignant and funny moments of their early passions.
Superstar author and journalist Trent Dalton continues our progressive summer novel with handsome truckie Lizard Blair in a spot of bother: a mysterious cop, a dropped pie and some alarming news.
Perched on a street corner, Trent Dalton asks passers-by for love stories. What they tell him is remarkable.
Fighting Spirit looks back at the Black Summer fires of 2019-20.
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