Patrick Swayze died and took the early girlhoods of the Western world with him. When his name is mentioned, hetero men still roll their eyes and swear they'll never watch the film; hetero women roll their eyes, but for a different reason. Some of it ...
Sometimes, I don’t know if I remember what I’ve done or whether I’ve heard it from other people, or maybe read it in the newspaper.
In the courtroom Johan Nel leans forward, elbows on the knees of his new suit pants, and grins at the familie...
At the Harrington Street drop-off today, there was a woman sitting on the floor, her legs stuck out straight in front of her in that peculiarly African pose. She was staring at her limbs, as if she could not believe that they had carried her here, th...
Call Centre Girl: Hello. Am I speaking to Diane, please?
Me: Yars.
CCG: This is the Democratic Alliance. We just need to know if you’re still living at 6 Behr Road.
Me: [Whoa. Who needs the Scorpions?] No. I … um … moved to Woodstock.
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Embroiled as I am in an argument with a furious member of the artistic community, I’m feeling the need to clear up some issues about art in this country. And before anyone starts saddling up the old high horse preparatory to riding me out of Dullsv...
This weekend I saw DJ Spooky take one for the team. It was an ugly but necessary procedure, and the kind of thing you never -- but never -- see happening to an artist at an exhibition opening. Especially an American one.
We have a troubled relatio...
Diane Awerbuck's first novel, Gardening at Night, struck it lucky. She now helps run a small publishing company (visit www.electricbookworks.com), reviews fiction and writes The Portable Pilgrim on www.extrange.com. She is an AW Mellon Fellow at the University of Cape Town, where she is completing a PhD in technology and trauma narratives. Awerbuck is at work on a cooperative novel (with Henrietta Rose-Innes, Mary Watson and Lauren Beukes) titled Exquisite Corpse.
