Playing Nice Was Getting Me Nowhere
Satires
$29.60
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
29 July 2025
Summary
A riotous collection of ethical fever dreams from an internationally recognised master of the short form, Alex Cothren’s Playing Nice Was Getting Me Nowhere is a book for anyone struggling to tell the difference between the news and satire.
A conspiracy theory about bees divides a nation. A haunted pokie machine seeks revenge. A ‘smart’ home becomes a little too clever.
Alex Cothren’s riotous collection of ethical fever dreams explores the ethos of th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781763554177 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1763554171 |
| Author: | Alexander Cothren |
| Publisher: | Pink Shorts Press |
| Imprint: | Pink Shorts Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 29 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 188g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 210mm x 137mm |
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About The Author
Alexander Cothren
Alex Cothren is a lecturer in creative writing at Flinders University. He has won the Carmel Bird, William van Dyke, Griffith Review Emerging Voices and Peter Carey awards for short fiction. He has had writing published in Meanjin, Island, Overland, Griffith Review and Australian Book Review. He was born in the Pacific Northwest but now lives on beautiful Kaurna Yerta with his wife Maria and son Julio.
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