Reuben Mackey

AusLit, metafiction, and anything else difficult and annoying.

[Reuben Mackey @ReubenMackey_]

My article on Gerald Murnane’s A Million Windows is finally live at TEXT Journal (and open access!). It’s an assortment of thoughts on how and why certain obsessive critics have responded to Murnane + my attempt to write from within the House of Fiction.
https://t.co/tAuYHyPWyJ

[Reuben Mackey @ReubenMackey_]

@EmmettStinson One of my favourites from the last few years. I quite enjoyed the most recent short story collection too

[Reuben Mackey @ReubenMackey_]

If any prize account was going to resort to AI slop content, then it would always be the Miles Franklin…

[MilesFranklin @_milesfranklin]

The countdown has begun.
Australia's most prestigious literary prize — the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2026 is here.
Because great fiction doesn't just reflect Australia, it defines it.
Follow for upcoming announcements👇
#MilesFranklin #MFLA2026
@onRlive

[Reuben Mackey @ReubenMackey_]

Chiba disapproves of your book discourse

[Reuben Mackey @ReubenMackey_]

@DepartureJay Shadowbahn is also an incredible book

[Reuben Mackey @ReubenMackey_]

@IneluctableQuak I’d just take a book collection of the microfiction…

[Reuben Mackey @ReubenMackey_]

https://t.co/vjW4wRe3Ix

[Reuben Mackey @ReubenMackey_]

Coming back, again, to one of my favourite Jen Craig pieces, "Invisible Writing", from her old micro-fiction blog. No one does it better...

[Chris Evangelista @cevangelista413]

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die…his feet are light and nimble. He never sleeps. He says that he will never die. He dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite. He never sleeps, Tiny Tim. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.

[Reuben Mackey @ReubenMackey_]

New review by me in which I'm sadly very negative. Small publishers are the lifeblood of AusLit, so when a new one emerges promising the strange and unusual, I'll be extra-critical on whether they deliver on the promise or not...
https://t.co/LYF8lJCiHy

[Reuben Mackey @ReubenMackey_]

@connorflano @DoorDash And yet not the worst traction. I should know my lane

[Reuben Mackey @ReubenMackey_]

How’s the @DoorDash AI slop???

[Emmett Stinson @EmmettStinson]

Really enjoyed this strange and very short novel set across Australia and the USA that is very much about not being sure where you are in the world.

[Reuben Mackey @ReubenMackey_]

Chiba has declared I can’t read this morning

[Emmett Stinson @EmmettStinson]

So sad to hear about the passing of Australian experimental author Moya Costello—a great writer, a lovely human being, an excellent scholar and teacher, and the inspiration for Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello.

[Eleventh Volume @EleventhVolume]

Murnane patiently waiting for a call today, despite not owning a phone.

[Overland Journal @OverlandJournal]

“If we’ve learned anything from the recent slew of Zionist attacks on culture in Australia, it’s that institutions — mainly universities — are often a poisoned chalice for writers and editors.”

Deputy editor Eli McLean on the closure of MEANJIN. https://t.co/904VhuDYXU

[Reuben Mackey @ReubenMackey_]

@plfrnz

[Emmett Stinson @EmmettStinson]

Absurd. Gerald Murnane has written many horse texts.

[Reuben Mackey @ReubenMackey_]

@teo_ess I’m very predictable haha. I do think the argument is about right though. But I’d say Book of Numbers has that dialogic principle at its core, which makes it stand out.