Matthew Asprey: 6 books

Three comic stories by Matthew Asprey. 'Villa des Bijoux' recounts the obsessive hunt for a location used in Alfred Hitchcock’s 'To Catch A Thief' (1955) in the village of St Jeannet on the Cote d’Azur. 'Gut Bucket Blues' was originally published in the Australian jazz journal Extempore. 'To Murder...

Last seen in an obscure 2005 short story, Matthew Asprey's Lewis is back in a new comic misadventure!The place is Tbilisi, crumbling capital of post-Soviet Georgia. Our expatriate Australian hero, author of 'magisterial novels of the ancient world', is in town to work as historical...

CONTRAPPASSO is an independent biannual magazine of international writing published in Sydney, Australia. Issue 1 contains interviews with James Crumley, Lester Goran, and James Scott Linville; memoir pieces by Floyd Salas, Noel King, and Vanessa Berry; fiction by Lester Goran, Mimi Lipson,...

Angelique, a young Australian backpacker, travels to San Francisco for the world's first Festival of Dhaban First Wave Cinema. This film movement briefly flourished in the West African nation of Dhaba between 1969 and 1974, a period of creative freedom between repressive dictatorships. Adopted at...

Restless and impoverished, a young Australian composer seizes the opportunity to write the soundtrack for an ultra-low budget and politically explosive historical film about the Greek Civil War. Set in Athens and on location on the picturesque Aegean island of Katastari, 'Sonny’s Guerrillas' dramatizes...

The films of Orson Welles inhabit the spaces of cities—from America's industrializing midland to its noirish borderlands, from Europe's medieval fortresses to its Kafkaesque labyrinths and postwar rubblescapes. His movies take us through dark streets to confront nightmarish struggles for power,...