Feted by George Pelecanos and Patricia Cornwell, and drawing comparisons to Hemingway, Cormac McCarthy and Richard Russo, Philipp Meyer's debut novel American Rust has taken the US by storm. He talks about his dark and timely vision of small-town life with The Australian's Geordie Williamson.
PHILIPP MEYER (INTERNATIONAL) PHILIPP MEYER has been a James Michener Fellow in Fiction and has had stories published in McSweeneys, The Iowa Review and New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 2007. One Day This Will All Be Yours was selected by Edward P. Jones for the anthology Best American Short Stories: 2007 where it received an honourable mention. His debut novel, American Rust, is a heart-wrenching tale of redemption and survival in small-town America in the tradition of Richard Ford, Pete Dexter and Cormac McCarthy.
GEORDIE WILLIAMSON (LOCAL) GEORDIE WILLIAMSON is chief literary critic of The Australian. Raised in rural New South Wales, he puts his passion for reading down to dodgy television reception. He studied English literature at the University of Sydney and University College London, and spent five years in England selling rare books and manuscripts. Domestically, Geordie's work has appeared in The Australian and its monthly Australian Literary Review, The Sydney Morning Herald and Australian Financial Review. Overseas, he has written for The Spectator, Evening Standard, Literary Review and Prospect magazine. He is a regular contributor and editorial advisor to the Australian Book Review, and an intermittent academic at the University of Sydney, where he is completing a doctoral thesis. Geordie is also a regular contributor to ABC Radio National's Book Show, and convenor of ABC 702's Book Club.
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