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Elias Greig
@eliasgreig.bsky.social
Slow writer (he/him)
Author of I Can't Remember the Title but the Cover is Blue (A&U 2018). Opinions mine, professional account only.
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Email: eliasgreig@gmail.com (E-I-G)
I did!
October 10, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Stoked to hear it - thanks! Good old XPT.
July 21, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Bonus/consolation: The book of real-life customer encounters I wrote while working at a bookshop on Sydney's North Shore, I Can't Remember the Title but the Cover is Blue (2018), illustrated by Philip Marsden.
www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/...
July 20, 2025 at 11:19 AM
6/6 'Old Haunts', a review of Evie Wyld's breathtakingly flippant appropriation of Stolen Generations history as a backdrop to white trauma in The Echoes.
meanjin.com.au/latest/old-h...
Old haunts
Evie Wyld’s The Echoes ultimately ends up reinforcing what it might claim to challenge.
meanjin.com.au
July 20, 2025 at 11:15 AM
5/6 'No Shelter', on the settler-colonial property regime, the dream of neopastoral retreat via airbnb, and their effect on small rural/coastal communities - in this case, making my mum essentially homeless.
No shelter - Overland literary journal
Laws and governance at all levels of government—local, state, federal—regardless of party, currently support and, indeed, incentivise the maintenance of property as an asset class over any notion of h...
overland.org.au
July 20, 2025 at 11:11 AM
4/6 a review of Heather Rose's appalling race-baiting thriller, Bruny, 'Tasmania First: Ecofascism and the Settler Invasion Fantasy'.
Feature | Tasmania first: ecofascism and the settler invasion fantasy - Overland literary journal
Blurbed as ‘The stunning, explosive new novel from the bestselling author of The Museum of Modern Love, winner of the 2017 Stella Prize’, Bruny is, according to the Allen & Unwin PR department, a ‘sea...
overland.org.au
July 20, 2025 at 11:10 AM
3/6 'Freehold' on settler-colonialism, the cursed dream of freehold, and the building up/breaking down of my family home.
Freehold - Overland literary journal
My father took us up to survey the damage, crying openly at the extent of it, at how much it would cost him to fix, at how beautiful his dream had been — at how no one had supported him in it. It was ...
overland.org.au
July 20, 2025 at 11:08 AM
2/6 'A Circle Married to a Line' for the Sydney Review of Books' The Commute series — on transport, country drives, train rides, reverie, and social (im)mobility, ft. the last gasps and vestiges of pre-neoliberal Sydney.
A Circle Married to a Line | Sydney Review of Books
Elias Greig on deferred arrivals
sydneyreviewofbooks.com
July 20, 2025 at 11:07 AM