Photo by Alan Weedon
Sam
Twyford-Moore is the author of The Rapids: Ways of Looking at Mania published
by NewSouth Books. He is the founding host of The Rereaders, a fortnightly
literary and cultural podcast and a former Festival Director and CEO of the
Emerging Writers’ Festival.
Praise
for The Rapids:
Sam Twyford-Moore’s The Rapids is a harrowing and thoughtful exploration of all the crap that makes us human.
Bright,
warm and charmingly discursive, Sam examines his own mania by the bright lights
of pop culture. He's witty and honest but judiciously wary of our culture of
confession.
MARTIN
McKENZIE MURRAY, Chief Correspondent, The Saturday Paper
The
Rapids is beautifully written: brimming
with humour, empathy, pathos and heart.
This book is an earnest, generous, and important contribution to ongoing
global dialogue around mental health.
MAXINE BENEBA
CLARKE, author of The Hate Race
The
Rapids is a remarkable book – intelligent, empathic and
ethical. It offers a complex and astute account of mania and depression both as
a cultural phenomenon and a personal experience, and is unafraid of looking at
difficult and dark emotions and events. It is by turns heart-breaking and
hilarious, cerebral and cheeky, and an incredibly important work.
FIONA WRIGHT,
author of Small Acts of Disappearance
The Rapids is the story of a writer making sense of mania, the world, and mania
within the world. It is innovative, intelligent and sensitive; an important
work of criticism, and a critical work of importance.
KYLIE MASLEN, Kill Your Darlings
The Rapids is available here.
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| Photo by Alan Weedon |
Sam
Twyford-Moore is the author of The Rapids: Ways of Looking at Mania published
by NewSouth Books. He is the founding host of The Rereaders, a fortnightly
literary and cultural podcast and a former Festival Director and CEO of the
Emerging Writers’ Festival.
Praise
for The Rapids:
Sam Twyford-Moore’s The Rapids is a harrowing and thoughtful exploration of all the crap that makes us human.
MICHAEL SALA, author of The Restorer
Bright,
warm and charmingly discursive, Sam examines his own mania by the bright lights
of pop culture. He's witty and honest but judiciously wary of our culture of
confession.
MARTIN
McKENZIE MURRAY, Chief Correspondent, The Saturday Paper
The
Rapids is beautifully written: brimming
with humour, empathy, pathos and heart.
This book is an earnest, generous, and important contribution to ongoing global dialogue around mental health.
This book is an earnest, generous, and important contribution to ongoing global dialogue around mental health.
MAXINE BENEBA
CLARKE, author of The Hate Race
The
Rapids is a remarkable book – intelligent, empathic and
ethical. It offers a complex and astute account of mania and depression both as
a cultural phenomenon and a personal experience, and is unafraid of looking at
difficult and dark emotions and events. It is by turns heart-breaking and
hilarious, cerebral and cheeky, and an incredibly important work.
The Rapids is the story of a writer making sense of mania, the world, and mania
within the world. It is innovative, intelligent and sensitive; an important
work of criticism, and a critical work of importance.
KYLIE MASLEN, Kill Your Darlings
The Rapids is available here.
