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“[…] she’s a trickster writer who judges her own performance.”

Review by Rosemary Sorensen (Independent Australia)

“[…] invigoratingly thoughtful, playful and stylistically uncompromising in the best of senses".”

The Booklist by Cameron Woodhead and Steven Carroll (The Age)

 

“Tan’s essays rise out of a defiant, DIY sensibility and sustain a dissident energy.”

Review by Vanessa Berry (The Conversation)

“I don’t critique my own work as I write.”

Debut Spotlight: Interview (Kill Your Darlings)

“Given the rapid acceleration of our image-conscious media economy, Tan may be right to identify “hope” as our strongest force of counterattack.”

Feature interview with Ariana Haghighi (Honi Soit)

“Tan writes about the inside, the outside and how the insidious centre somehow keeps its hold, even when we know it cannot, should not.”

Review by Briohny Doyle (Kill Your Darlings)

 

“[…] the personal material that she deploys in Peripathetic is how it is almost always a secondary concern; it is the ideas that guide these essays.”

Review by Fiona Wright (The Guardian)

 

“[…] she has a knack for deadpan one-liners that are devastating in effect”

“The best Australian books out in May” (The Guardian)

“It’s a wilful inscrutability, because I never want to be co-opted.”

Interview with Leah Jing McIntosh (LIMINAL)

 

Interview with Xen Nhà on Women on the Line (3CR)

 

“I’m drawn to writing that reimagines current absurdities and prods at the many senseless contradictions around us, so we can hopefully crawl our way out.”

Interview with Max Easton (Barely Human)

“Tan is a sharpshooter, putting into words thoughts that had previously only rattled in my head. She is a stylist.”

Review by Karen Leong (Artshub)