We're thrilled to host Luke Carman, award-winning author of the Australian cult classic 'An Elegant Young Man', who will discuss his highly anticipated essay collection 'Intimate Antipathies' with Alice Grundy.

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ABOUT THE BOOK:
Intimate Antipathies is the much-anticipated new work by Luke Carman, award-winning author of the Australian cult classic An Elegant Young Man.

The essays in this new book follow the writer in his oscillations through anxiety, outrage and ecstasy, and in doing so explore the connections between writing and dreaming, writing and mental illness, writing and the complications of family life.

From his famous jeremiad against arts administrators in 'Getting Square in a Jerking Circle', through the psychotic attack brought on by the collapse of his marriage, to his surreal account of meeting with Gerald Murnane at a golf club in the remote Victorian village of Goroke, Carman explores the particular challenges faced by writers who grow up in the contested borderlands of the suburbs - always returning to his great obsession, the home on a small mountain in Sydney's west, where his antipathies with the real world first began to shape his imagination.

PRAISE FOR LUKE CARMAN:
"A bogan flaneur: part connoisseur, part anthropologist of the rich and fractious field of difference through which he moves"
- Geordie Williamson, The Australian.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Luke Carman's story collection An Elegant Young Man won the 2014 NSW Premier's New Writing Award and was shortlisted for the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal and the Steele Rudd Short Story Prize. Carman was named a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist for the book, which is about a narrator, also named Luke, who bears many similarities to the essayist in this collection - an outspoken and self-mocking innocent who is beguiled by romance and yearns for transcendence.

A NOTE ON THE VENUE:
This event will be held in The Vanguard (previously known as Leadbelly), which is a strictly adults only venue.  

TICKETING INFO

 This is an 18+ event. 

DOORS OPEN AT 7PM

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VENUE INFO
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All children under 18 not permitted including small children and babies.
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Inappropriate behaviour at this venue will lead to your banning.