Press

If consultation with others is how you make up your mind about your feelings about a book, here's a bunch of interviews and reviews to temper your own critical faculties with.

Man Bites Dog

*NEW!* Brisbane Courier-Mail (19/02/2005) - "A Timely Bite of the Big Time"
"In Man Bites Dog, Steven asks, 'How do you now when you've actually grown up?'"

*NEW!* Brisbane Courier-Mail (5/02/2005) - One Book, One Brisbane judge's comments about shortlist inclusion
"Marry that with canine murderers, postal hilarity and sex for an enjoyable read."

*NEW!* Cheat Sheet - review
"The twisted ending is crudely funny, although some may find it stomach-churning"

The Guardian - "Messrs Dynamite and Dog-Biter" - review
"The cartoons are cool..."

CBCA Notable Children's Books 2004 - review
"This is an honest look at the lifestyles of young adults in contemporary urban culture."

The Independent - review
"...there's certainly enough charm in it..."

Aussie Reviews - review
"Quirky."

Young Australian Readers Award/Gold Creek School, ACT - review
"This is a novel not only about people delivering mail; this is a story about friendship, sex and keeping clean."

The Blurb - review
"Ford writes easily with a great sense of characterisation, allowing each character to jump from the page and become a part of your life."

Deadline - review
"Some books you just know."

Deadline - review of launch of MBD at Good Morning Captain, 23rd May 2003.
"So many people hugged Adam."

The Age - "The Postman Bites Back"
"Ford is funny, honest and engaging, and so are his characters."

Viewpoint - review
"I began reading this twenty-something novel with resistance and finished it beguiled."

MX - "Off the Shelf with author ADAM FORD"
"Has poetry ever got you laid?"

Australian Bookseller - review
"...fortunately Ford eschews the grungy nihilism so prevalent in 20-something literature..."

Qantas The Australian Way - review
"The characters are hopelessly real, with a lunatic credibility..."

Readings newsletter - review
"Equal parts murder mystery-lite and neurotic urban romance..."

Not Quite the Man for the Job

The Age Saturday Extra - "Not Drowning, Writing"
"Ford admits cheerfully that he looks dangerously on the edge of turning into a Monkey Grip cliche."

The Age Books Extra - "Things to say that are not just a matter of form" - review
"His often plain language belies the intelligent imagination behind it..."

Australian Book Review - review
"...Ford's freshness and simplicity are to be applauded."

Victorian Writers Centre Newsletter - review
"...the formal engagement with (capital p) Poetry is not that obvious."

New Weekly - review
"Here's our favourite poem (that we can print):"

A Letter from Rebecca Volke
"Good Luck in the near future!!"

From My Head

Catalyst - review
"I can understand most of the sentiments that appear throughout the book..."

Farrago - review
"I don't like poetry — but I like this."

Other Stuff

InPress - "Spreading the Zine Virus"
"Zines are a way of fulfilling a lot of personal goals, he says."