1. Who are you?
Ellen Meister, mom, wife, sister, daughter, writer, blogger, friend, lover, minivan-driver, contact lens wearer, migraine sufferer, cook, reader, hugger, laundress, skeptic, believer, supermarket shopper, homework helper, laugher, weeper, Scrabble player, PTA member, interviewee.
2. What do you write?
What I AIM to write is smart, funny novels about women and their relationships with one […]
My friend, Angel, sent me a link to a Guardian piece in which Brian Aldiss, author of Brothers of the Head (”the 1977 novel about conjoined twins who are exploited as a pop act [which] has now been made into a film”) looks at “the question of where creative ideas emerge from.”
Aldiss writes:
It’s all wrapped […]
A great novelist is essentially tolerant, that is, displays a real apprehension of persons other than the author as having a right to exist and to have a separate mode of being which is important and interesting to themselves.
- Iris Murdoch
(I have no idea where this comes from. I’ve scribbled it on some paper and […]
Interesting piece in The Age about Kate Grenville’s The Secret River.
Novelist Kate Grenville has upset historians by claiming her Booker-shortlisted The Secret River is a new form of history writing.
…begins the report by Jane Sullivan. While researching the story, Grenville came across “dispatch from Governor Arthur Phillip, written a few months after the First […]
"Feasting with Archestratus," a feature story on what the ancient Greeks thought was good to eat, in Odyssey magazine (Nov/Dec 2007).
My poem "Seduction" published in Wetink, Issue 7, Winter 2007
"Alexander's Enduring Myth," a review of two books about the legendary king and conqueror, in Odyssey magazine (May/June 2007).
"Reconstructing the Past," my feature on archaeological restoration in Greece explores the debate about how far restorations should go in the name of making ancient monuments more comprehensible to the public, in Odyssey magazine (Nov/Dec 2006).
My short story "A Silly Little Thing" in the See You Next Tuesday anthology of 50 sex-texts.
"Particles of Truth," my interview with particle physicist Maria Spiropulu in Odyssey magazine (Sept/Oct 2006).
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