I have introduced a new page: INFLUENCES: a reading list. In 2012 I rediscovered the wonderful prose of Albert Camus. The final sentences of The Stranger are spellbinding. I unearthed Michel Houellebecq’s The map and the territory and Atomised, was delighted by the fact or fiction HHhH by Laurent Binet. And finally two notable reads:…
I have introduced a new page: INFLUENCES: a reading list. 2010 contained some remarkable surprises. On my second attempt I got past the (yawn!) first 100 pages of the book that goes nowhere, Flaubert’s Madame Bovary. I discovered Orhan Pamuk, whose My name is Red narrated from a handover of one narrator to another gave…
In July 2008 I emerged from the Simpson Desert after completing a 24-day solo and unsupported walk charged with creative possibility. It was then, finally, that I became a writer. A year-an-half later I began to keep a record of my reading. These are my latterly influences. Be it reading for pleasure or distraction, for…
As a writer with an eye for design, I loved the Vienna Art + Design exhibition at the NGV in Melbourne a couple of years ago. One aspect that caught my eye was the stylised monograms that each artist/designer placed on all of their works, be it painting or sculpture or cutlery. They were simple, geometric,…
Welcome. These pages and blog will feature new (and archived) writing by Michael Giacometti, an emerging writer based in Alice Springs, Australia. The pages will be fully active by the end of this month. He previously blogged poetry on WordPress at michaelgiceometticafepoet.
Michael Giacometti 