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In A Kind of Confession, Alex Miller drops the 'mask of fiction' to reveal the intricate depths of a writing life

  • Written by Brigid Rooney, Associate Professor (Affiliate), Australian Literature, University of Sydney
In A Kind of Confession, Alex Miller drops the 'mask of fiction' to reveal the intricate depths of a writing lifeSunrise near Winton, Central Queensland.Trevor McKinnon/Unsplash

Alex Miller’s A Kind of Confession is subtitled “the writer’s private world”. It is comprised of excerpts from his notebooks, diaries and selected letters. Spanning 1961 to 2023, these documents sit at a small but decisive distance from the author, having been...

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