Australian non-fiction has taken over publishing. “Book after book indicating a renaissance in Australian non-fiction, incorporating everything from narrative journalism to memoir, rock’n’roll, history, philosophy, the essay and political biography. Works that often blurred the territory between these forms and fiction, part and parcel of a radical hybridisation of style and content affecting literature internationally and sending our old generic orders into meltdown. When compared with this catalogue, recent local literary fiction was not up to the same consistent standard, let alone able to match en masse the furious energy our literary non-fiction exudes.”