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Author: Anna Kate Blair

Anna Kate Blair is a writer from Aotearoa. She holds a PhD in History of Art from the University of Cambridge and her work has recently appeared in Reckoning, Meanjin, The Lifted Brow and Landfall.

Interview with author Sara Jaffe: ‘I wanted to think about queerness in a really close and experiential way that precedes a coming-out moment’

2nd November 20213rd November 2021  Anna Kate Blair

Anna Kate Blair talks to author Sara Jaffe about why Dryland is an anti-coming-out novel, writers who have influenced her work, being published by the Queer UK-based Independent publisher Cipher Press, leaning into the awkwardness of writing about adolescence, music and much more.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: Anna Kate Blair, anti-coming-of-age-novel, Baroque, BAROQUE Guest Editorial, Cipher Press, Denton Welch, Gwendolyn Brooks, Leanne Shapton, Lynne Tillman, Novel, queer literature, queer love, Queer Relationships, Sara Jaffe, swimming

Dryland by Sara Jaffe – a novel that lingers like the memory of adolescence

27th July 20211st November 2021  Anna Kate Blair

Dryland is an ‘anti-coming out’ novel full of shifting surfaces and unplumbed depths, where the reality of relationships and queer desire are alluded to but never fully disclosed, writes Anna Kate Blair.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Anna Kate Blair, Baroque, BAROQUE Guest Editorial, Books, Cipher Press, Dryland, queer literature, Sara Jaffe

Postcards in Isolation 15: Pixie Colman-Smith, The Hermit, 1909

21st July 202026th July 2020  Anna Kate Blair

In the fifteenth Postcard of the series, Anna Kate Blair contemplates Pixie Colman-Smith’s designs for the Rider-Waite tarot deck and pays close attention to the Hermit, a card whose solitary figure resonates with our times.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: A. E. Waite, Ana Kate Blair, Covid-19, Jungian Analysis, Lockdown Living, Pixie Colman-Smith, Postcards in Isolation, Rider-Waite, Rider-Waite tarot, Rochelle Roberts, Tarot, The Hermit
  • Queer Tricks & Hermaphrodite Dances – Nino Strachey’s Young Bloomsbury: A New Queer History
    By Lottie Whalen
  • Motion and other poems by Catherine Norris
    By Catherine Norris
  • Hit Parade of Tears: Stories by Izumi Suzuki – the emotional disparities of dystopia
    By Jennifer Brough
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