VIDEOS FOR THE LAST DAYS OF ZANE GREY
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Videographer: Henry Simmons
REVIEWS FOR NIGHT FISHING
Holiday in the living room
Beejay Silcox
Times Literary Supplement, 26 June 2020
Vicki Hastrich’s Night Fishing: Stingrays, Goya and the singular life (Allen & Unwin), is the perfect reading companion for waterside reverie, an account of the memories made and remade along the author’s favourite stretch of Aussie coastline. Hastrich knows how to pay attention. Her memoir is the literary equivalent of a glass-bottomed boat, a frame for wonderment.
Beejay Silcox
Times Literary Supplement, 26 June 2020
Vicki Hastrich’s Night Fishing: Stingrays, Goya and the singular life (Allen & Unwin), is the perfect reading companion for waterside reverie, an account of the memories made and remade along the author’s favourite stretch of Aussie coastline. Hastrich knows how to pay attention. Her memoir is the literary equivalent of a glass-bottomed boat, a frame for wonderment.
Night Fishing: Stingrays, Goya and the Singular Life by Vicki Hastrich
Susannah Whaley
NZ Booklovers
Night Fishing: Stingrays, Goya and the Singular Life is a collection of thirteen ‘essays’ by Australian writer Vicki Hastrich. These are thirteen diverse, introspective and artistically sharp sets of ponderings. Painting a picture of the author’s childhood, her first job, and growing up to adult life (which among selfies, fishing and other endeavours involves her struggle to write an Australian Baroque novel), they have no reliance on biographical convention. The essays are reflections on self, war, art, and boundaries. Night Fishing offers creative musings rather than a memoir which delivers dates and facts. Enjoyable as standalone pieces, the essays also build a narrative sequence, which while not strictly chronological, develops Hastrich’s thoughts about the world. Each essay is different and even reading one offers plenty to think about...
Hastrich is engaging, cerebral, and never inaccessible... There is a refreshing honesty throughout this book. I never wondered where the author was taking me, and was quite happily absorbed in the moments, the beautiful language, as well as quite often her wit, and her easy and familiar cleverness.
More... www.nzbooklovers.co.nz/post/night-fishing-stingrays-goya-and-the-singular-life-by-vicki-hastrich
Susannah Whaley
NZ Booklovers
Night Fishing: Stingrays, Goya and the Singular Life is a collection of thirteen ‘essays’ by Australian writer Vicki Hastrich. These are thirteen diverse, introspective and artistically sharp sets of ponderings. Painting a picture of the author’s childhood, her first job, and growing up to adult life (which among selfies, fishing and other endeavours involves her struggle to write an Australian Baroque novel), they have no reliance on biographical convention. The essays are reflections on self, war, art, and boundaries. Night Fishing offers creative musings rather than a memoir which delivers dates and facts. Enjoyable as standalone pieces, the essays also build a narrative sequence, which while not strictly chronological, develops Hastrich’s thoughts about the world. Each essay is different and even reading one offers plenty to think about...
Hastrich is engaging, cerebral, and never inaccessible... There is a refreshing honesty throughout this book. I never wondered where the author was taking me, and was quite happily absorbed in the moments, the beautiful language, as well as quite often her wit, and her easy and familiar cleverness.
More... www.nzbooklovers.co.nz/post/night-fishing-stingrays-goya-and-the-singular-life-by-vicki-hastrich
Vicki Hastrich and the pleasures of looking
Rebecca Johinke
The Sydney Morning Herald, 22 August 2019
Rebecca Johinke
The Sydney Morning Herald, 22 August 2019
After her first two well-received works of fiction, Swimming with Jellyfish (2001) and The Great Arch(2008), Vicki Hastrich takes us back to her childhood via the waterways of the Brisbane Water estuary, near Woy Woy on the NSW central coast.
This shimmering book of personal essays examines the pleasures of fishing, writing and thinking. To paraphrase an observation that Hastrich makes about Galileo, her great achievement is to show us what is already in plain view.
The essays remind us to appreciate the natural beauty of our environment, but also the galleries, books and libraries around us; and they encourage us to peer more intently, and to be inventive but respectful about the ways we go about looking... Every wet word glistens and shines... more...
This shimmering book of personal essays examines the pleasures of fishing, writing and thinking. To paraphrase an observation that Hastrich makes about Galileo, her great achievement is to show us what is already in plain view.
The essays remind us to appreciate the natural beauty of our environment, but also the galleries, books and libraries around us; and they encourage us to peer more intently, and to be inventive but respectful about the ways we go about looking... Every wet word glistens and shines... more...
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Heartaches of sweet little fish
Gretchen Schirm The Weekend Australian, 26-27 October 2019 '... there is a strong pioneering spirit here; many of these essays reject convention, chief among them the idea that a single woman cannot live a rewarding life. This is what makes Hastrich's closing image of the young girl waving from the shore to herself in the boat so moving. The self is a continuous feedback loop formed out of memory and external input, and, exploiting these tools, Night Fishing becomes a triumph of form.' more... |
Vicki Hastrich's collection of essays, Night Fishing, covers art, nature, fishing, family and language
Christine Kearney
The Canberra Times, 14 September 2019
Christine Kearney
The Canberra Times, 14 September 2019
A fishing spot on the Brisbane Water north of Sydney frames the span of essays in Night Fishing. The spot, known locally as The Hole, is 37 metres deep. While Vicki Hastrich's father would sometimes fish there, she was never taken to The Hole as a child. It was treacherous and known for its huge tidal forces.
As an adult, and after a fruitless day out on the water, she and her brother decide to try fishing at The Hole, still mindful of that childhood prohibition. What she catches for us in this collection - just like the enormous flathead she brings up after finally fishing The Hole - is surprising and immensely satisfying.
The topics in Night Fishing range over the natural world, art and art history, fishing, family, writing, language, the Sydney boat show, the baroque and the troubled history of land ownership in this country. Hastrich has a unique knack of deftly balancing European, Australian and Indigenous thinking, and rendering each in complementary ways. So there's a pleasingly rounded and very Australian sensibility to her inquiry in this joyful book... more...
As an adult, and after a fruitless day out on the water, she and her brother decide to try fishing at The Hole, still mindful of that childhood prohibition. What she catches for us in this collection - just like the enormous flathead she brings up after finally fishing The Hole - is surprising and immensely satisfying.
The topics in Night Fishing range over the natural world, art and art history, fishing, family, writing, language, the Sydney boat show, the baroque and the troubled history of land ownership in this country. Hastrich has a unique knack of deftly balancing European, Australian and Indigenous thinking, and rendering each in complementary ways. So there's a pleasingly rounded and very Australian sensibility to her inquiry in this joyful book... more...
Vicki Hastrich, Night Fishing
Fiona Wright
The Saturday Paper, 7 September 2019
...Many of the essays are about boating and fishing – about sitting in a patched-up fibreglass dinghy (called, wonderfully, The Squid) and watching the watery landscape change according to the tide or time of day, observing and recording the sea life and seaweed that the boat passes by. Vicki Hastrich’s writing is often lyrical, and beautifully attentive, making a case for the importance of this kind of consideration and care, especially in a world where our climate and environment are so terribly threatened... more...
Fiona Wright
The Saturday Paper, 7 September 2019
...Many of the essays are about boating and fishing – about sitting in a patched-up fibreglass dinghy (called, wonderfully, The Squid) and watching the watery landscape change according to the tide or time of day, observing and recording the sea life and seaweed that the boat passes by. Vicki Hastrich’s writing is often lyrical, and beautifully attentive, making a case for the importance of this kind of consideration and care, especially in a world where our climate and environment are so terribly threatened... more...