This Fluid Thrill
Thursday, January 17, 2013

Names of Danger

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I’ve named hundreds over people over the last ten years, all of them fictional. Some felt more alive than others. Then my wife got pregnant ...
Saturday, January 5, 2013

2012 in music

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In May I wrote about how the launch of Spotify in New Zealand had aboosted my waning interest in 'new' music. By new music, I don...
Thursday, January 3, 2013

Best Reads of 2012

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These are the top ten books I read in 2012 (regardless of when they were published). #1 - The Orphan Master's Son - Adam Johnson (2...
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Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Plus Ones / New Office / Yellow pohutukawa

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So here we are. A new year, a new outlook on life. Mine is courtesy of the two week old screaming in the next room. I'm now a dab han...
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Abide with the handmaid’s desire: recent reading

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I totted up my reading for the year this morning and there were about eight books jostling for the ninth and tenth spots on my top ten reads...
Tuesday, December 11, 2012

'Welcome to What Next, Population: You'

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I’ve been MIA for the last couple of weeks. No, the baby hasn’t come yet (due date is tomorrow: 12/12/12, which was always too perfect to ev...
Sunday, November 18, 2012

Recent everything

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Recent reading How to be a Woman by Caitlin Moran (non-fiction) I placed a reserve on this book months ago at the library and then whe...
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Sunday, November 11, 2012

Advice to young (female) writers

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I was recently searching through my emails for the name of someone and came across a request from Dolly magazine last year for a writing ti...
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Craig Cliff
I am a writer of fiction, mostly.

My short story collection, A MAN MELTING, won the 2011 Commonwealth Writers Prize Best First Book.

My novel THE MANNEQUIN MAKERS was published in 2013 in Australia and New Zealand, a Romanian translation came out in 2016, the US edition came out at the end of 2017 and the UK edition dropped in 2019.

My latest book is NAILING DOWN THE SAINT, a novel about fatherhood, Hollywood and levitation (Vintage, August 2019).
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