Taken separately, the two narrative threads of Angela Meyer's A Superior Spectre are straightforward. In one, Jeff is dying. Set in a recognisable near-future time, he…
Craig Hildebrand-BurkeAugust 6, 2018
What is it, to be a boy? An even greater challenge: what is it to be a boy who is troubled? That can mean so…
Craig Hildebrand-BurkeFebruary 28, 2018
So when I’m not writing posts here I’m actually living a whole other secret life full of action, teaching secondary students about books and writing…
Craig Hildebrand-BurkeMarch 20, 2016
With reports of yet more bookshops closing around Australia, the ongoing decline of physical bookstores seem to be increasingly accurate and foreboding. It is unfortunate, and especially…
Craig Hildebrand-BurkeApril 18, 2014
Why write horror stories? Why write something that is designed to induce fear? Designed to scare? Designed to shock and upset and haunt and terrify?…
Craig Hildebrand-BurkeApril 18, 2014
In a recent article published in the New York Times, authors Mohsin Hamid and Adam Kirsch were asked if the new ‘golden age’ of TV shows were…
Craig Hildebrand-BurkeApril 18, 2014
Recently, there has been a flurry of scandalous debate about a report and analysis into the changing world of publishing by Wool author Hugh Howey. Howey’s exceedingly detailed…
Craig Hildebrand-BurkeMarch 1, 2014
It is often said that a hero is only ever as good as the villain. And while it’s not wholly successful to reduce all stories…
Craig Hildebrand-BurkeFebruary 16, 2014
While we are still being fed tiny morsels to whet our appetites for an adaptation to Stephen King’s Dark Tower series (Aaron Paul! Javier Bardem! Netflix!), it…
Craig Hildebrand-BurkeFebruary 16, 2014