Interview with Shane Anderson @032c

 

I don’t like books that are tightly choreographed – some of it just felt right – and I didn’t want to do the manipulative, conventional thing, but I did want the book to end in nothing but one person and another person, one person’s skin and another person’s skin, one person’s memory and another person’s. Nothing else. Just that.

 

Greg Bruce, 'Australian writer Maria Tumarkin on her new book and what she hates about stories', New Zealand Herald

 

“If not story, then what? Tumarkin thinks out loud, uses reported quotes and extensive literary references, she complains, sympathises with and advocates for her characters, she chastises herself and she entertains doubt. She is not in combat, exactly, with the notion of story, but you can feel her active rejection of its desperate pull.”