A review for Black Sheep: Set in a dystopian future, Black Sheep chronicles the downfall of narrator Isao Dazai, who is "convicted of being Japanese" in Asian-Sydney. Multiculturialism is now considered a disease for which the only cure is ruthless segregation. We're in Orwellian...
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One of my ex-girlfriends was one of those writers who wrote a lot, but never let anyone read it. She still is. She writes for herself, and not publication, as she doesn't want to deal with that, and in the last couple of days, I've...
For everyone who doesn't give a shit about the drama, I give you a very out of tune Scarlet Johansson with the Jesus and Mary Chain. Apparently she's making an album....
Okay. Now, this post here, this is about the drama around Black Sheep, my novel. Take a pen and note pad. There'll be a test at the end. Firstly, it is not, generally speaking, my kind of thing to delete posts, but I've done it over the...
The phone is ringing. "Yeah?" "Hey." "Hey, Trent." "Ben. I'm just ringing to tell you that I've become the shining white knight of the Aurealis Awards." "No shit?" "No shit." In the background, I can hear a motor start up. "Yeah, I signed a form. Ah, basically, it means that I...
I did an interview with Vera Nazarian (norilana) about Black Sheep on her blog: Bright, intellectual, and outspoken, Ben Peek is a Sydney-based author with an attitude. His knife's-edge provocative fiction has appeared in the Leviathan, Agog, and Polyphony anthology series, as well as the Year's...
On Saturday night I watched Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. L had scored a burnt copy out of her father in that way that Asian-Parents-Organise-Stolen-Films-For-Their-Children-Fashion. This meant that since the two of us didn't pay cash, our critical capacity was on full, and...
From Clive James: I still haven't forgiven CS Lewis for going on all those long walks with JRR Tolkien and failing to strangle him, thus to save us from hundreds of pages dripping with the wizardly wisdom of Gandalf and from the kind of movie in...
I have just read some of Knifepoint Horror, Volume One and, now that my eyes have stopped bleeding, and I have stopped laughing, I am going to share it with you. It will, perhaps, surprise you to learn that Knifepoint Horror is in fact a movement,...