Robert Lukins
@robertlukins.bsky.social
Reader, writer, Naarm, Melbourne. New book out in Feb 2025, Somebody Down There Likes Me.
https://linktr.ee/robertlukins
https://linktr.ee/robertlukins
Pinned
Little story over on Aunty.
Sneaking into backyards of the ultra-rich inspired author's new novel: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-16/robert-lukins-author-somebody-down-there-likes-me/105042750
Sneaking into backyards of the ultra-rich inspired author's new novel
Robert Lukins' third novel is a Succession-like saga set in a wealthy enclave in Connecticut in the 1990s.
www.abc.net.au
March 17, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Little story over on Aunty.
Publishing a novel is a ride.
So heart max warmed by some very lovely reviews in this weekend’s papers.
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So heart max warmed by some very lovely reviews in this weekend’s papers.
🍷
February 22, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Publishing a novel is a ride.
So heart max warmed by some very lovely reviews in this weekend’s papers.
🍷
So heart max warmed by some very lovely reviews in this weekend’s papers.
🍷
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This sounds like they’ve launched an “independent review” into why Sabsabi was selected in the first place.
Ummm, that’s not the problem here.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Ummm, that’s not the problem here.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
February 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
This sounds like they’ve launched an “independent review” into why Sabsabi was selected in the first place.
Ummm, that’s not the problem here.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Ummm, that’s not the problem here.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Should you have any thoughts about the Creative Australia board's recent decision: feedback@creative.gov.au
February 15, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Should you have any thoughts about the Creative Australia board's recent decision: feedback@creative.gov.au
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If the Aust Govt does not denounce this immediately, we are complicit in approving ethnic cleansing of a historic level
February 5, 2025 at 12:20 AM
If the Aust Govt does not denounce this immediately, we are complicit in approving ethnic cleansing of a historic level
Publication day for this little slimeball.
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February 4, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Publication day for this little slimeball.
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Book launch this Thursday, Melbourne!
(I’ll stop soon, promise)
(I’ll stop soon, promise)
February 1, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Book launch this Thursday, Melbourne!
(I’ll stop soon, promise)
(I’ll stop soon, promise)
Got home to box o’ books, fresh from the printer.
❤️
❤️
January 25, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Got home to box o’ books, fresh from the printer.
❤️
❤️
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Here's my experimental nature essay on cricket, just published in Island Magazine.
(I'm not really a 24/7 news cycle kind of guy).
islandmag.com/read/grass-w...
(I'm not really a 24/7 news cycle kind of guy).
islandmag.com/read/grass-w...
Grass, willow, skin – by Ben Walter | Australian Literary Arts Magazine | ISLAND
The wind is blowing off the dead of the river and every gust is hollowing out my body. Even though it's summer and the evenings are spending all the light they've been saving up through the year, it's...
islandmag.com
January 23, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Here's my experimental nature essay on cricket, just published in Island Magazine.
(I'm not really a 24/7 news cycle kind of guy).
islandmag.com/read/grass-w...
(I'm not really a 24/7 news cycle kind of guy).
islandmag.com/read/grass-w...
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For interview #225, Michelle de Kretser speaks with
Roanna Gonsalves about hyperrealism, necessary sentences and Virginia Woolf.
www.liminalmag.com/interviews/m...
Roanna Gonsalves about hyperrealism, necessary sentences and Virginia Woolf.
www.liminalmag.com/interviews/m...
Interview #225—Michelle de Kretser — LIMINAL
“I don’t have the nerve to go back through the novel to examine its sentences; it would feel too close to being confronted with past crimes.”
www.liminalmag.com
January 14, 2025 at 10:53 PM
For interview #225, Michelle de Kretser speaks with
Roanna Gonsalves about hyperrealism, necessary sentences and Virginia Woolf.
www.liminalmag.com/interviews/m...
Roanna Gonsalves about hyperrealism, necessary sentences and Virginia Woolf.
www.liminalmag.com/interviews/m...
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Hello there.
I'll be launching my new novel in Melbourne on Thurs Feb 6, 2025.
A whiles away but would love to see some lovely humans there.
Details below:
www.readings.com.au/events/book-...
I'll be launching my new novel in Melbourne on Thurs Feb 6, 2025.
A whiles away but would love to see some lovely humans there.
Details below:
www.readings.com.au/events/book-...
Book Launch: Somebody Down There Likes Me
Join us to celebrate the launch of Robert Lukin's Somebody Down There Likes Me. The Gulch family have led a charmed existence in the ultra-wealthy enclave of Belle Haven, Connecticut. Now, the empire...
www.readings.com.au
November 22, 2024 at 12:03 AM
Hello there.
I'll be launching my new novel in Melbourne on Thurs Feb 6, 2025.
A whiles away but would love to see some lovely humans there.
Details below:
www.readings.com.au/events/book-...
I'll be launching my new novel in Melbourne on Thurs Feb 6, 2025.
A whiles away but would love to see some lovely humans there.
Details below:
www.readings.com.au/events/book-...
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Etch
"Sly and sexy" - Vogue
on my headstone.
"Sly and sexy" - Vogue
on my headstone.
January 7, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Etch
"Sly and sexy" - Vogue
on my headstone.
"Sly and sexy" - Vogue
on my headstone.
Etch
"Sly and sexy" - Vogue
on my headstone.
"Sly and sexy" - Vogue
on my headstone.
January 7, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Etch
"Sly and sexy" - Vogue
on my headstone.
"Sly and sexy" - Vogue
on my headstone.
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Holidays for many but not for this bookshop! Just finished the new excellent novel Somebody Down There Likes Me by @robertlukins.bsky.social - a kind of tragi-comedy about a family wallowing in wealth, and what is exposed when the tide of their fortune abruptly recedes.
January 6, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Holidays for many but not for this bookshop! Just finished the new excellent novel Somebody Down There Likes Me by @robertlukins.bsky.social - a kind of tragi-comedy about a family wallowing in wealth, and what is exposed when the tide of their fortune abruptly recedes.
The book popped up in the paper.
Then I ate a delicious scone.
Then I ate a delicious scone.
January 4, 2025 at 5:09 AM
The book popped up in the paper.
Then I ate a delicious scone.
Then I ate a delicious scone.
First finished copy of the new book arrived today.
With kind words from the legends Jock Serong and Kate Mildenhall.
It’s out on Feb 4.
I am happy. I am grateful. I am going for a swim.
With kind words from the legends Jock Serong and Kate Mildenhall.
It’s out on Feb 4.
I am happy. I am grateful. I am going for a swim.
December 20, 2024 at 4:51 AM
First finished copy of the new book arrived today.
With kind words from the legends Jock Serong and Kate Mildenhall.
It’s out on Feb 4.
I am happy. I am grateful. I am going for a swim.
With kind words from the legends Jock Serong and Kate Mildenhall.
It’s out on Feb 4.
I am happy. I am grateful. I am going for a swim.
Marketplace delivering the stocking stuffers.
December 17, 2024 at 4:52 AM
Marketplace delivering the stocking stuffers.
What a legacy, to be remembered for this kind of writing and as this kind of person.
Delia Falconer's exquisite tribute to the life and work of her dear friend, much-loved and awarded Australian writer Brenda Walker, is now live.
It is a (very sad) privilege to publish it.
theconversation.com/remembering-...
It is a (very sad) privilege to publish it.
theconversation.com/remembering-...
Remembering Brenda Walker
Award-winning Australian novelist Brenda Walker died last week. Her close friend, Delia Falconer, pays loving tribute to her life and work.
theconversation.com
December 16, 2024 at 3:35 AM
What a legacy, to be remembered for this kind of writing and as this kind of person.
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This is a fascinating article on Australian small publishing with an update on the fate of the Small Press Network. I am very pleased to have rejoined the board of the organisation and look forward to doing whatever I can to help small publishers.
The future of Australian small press
With the pausing of the Small Press Network earlier this year, many saw it as a death knell for Australian small press. But with a new board, SPN looks set to again champion small press in 2025.
www.artshub.com.au
December 13, 2024 at 1:12 AM
This is a fascinating article on Australian small publishing with an update on the fate of the Small Press Network. I am very pleased to have rejoined the board of the organisation and look forward to doing whatever I can to help small publishers.
I loved Piranesi. Been thinking of it often for a couple of years.
It makes me wonder if I’m missing other great books because they’re fantasy-adjacent and I’m fantasy-ignorant.
Is there anything else that feels like Piranesi? Magical, literary, beautiful, dreamy.
Little help?
It makes me wonder if I’m missing other great books because they’re fantasy-adjacent and I’m fantasy-ignorant.
Is there anything else that feels like Piranesi? Magical, literary, beautiful, dreamy.
Little help?
December 11, 2024 at 8:01 AM
I loved Piranesi. Been thinking of it often for a couple of years.
It makes me wonder if I’m missing other great books because they’re fantasy-adjacent and I’m fantasy-ignorant.
Is there anything else that feels like Piranesi? Magical, literary, beautiful, dreamy.
Little help?
It makes me wonder if I’m missing other great books because they’re fantasy-adjacent and I’m fantasy-ignorant.
Is there anything else that feels like Piranesi? Magical, literary, beautiful, dreamy.
Little help?
Saturday was exhuming the cast iron bathtub that I discovered buried in the middle of my backyard.
It’s the little things.
It’s the little things.
December 7, 2024 at 8:07 AM
Saturday was exhuming the cast iron bathtub that I discovered buried in the middle of my backyard.
It’s the little things.
It’s the little things.
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Science writers in Australia, check this out - ABR Science fellowship of $5000.
Current Fellowships - Science
Beejay Silcox is the recipient of the ABR Fortieth Birthday Fellowship worth $10,000.
www.australianbookreview.com.au
December 3, 2024 at 4:35 AM
Science writers in Australia, check this out - ABR Science fellowship of $5000.