Ronnie Scott

Ronnie Scott is the author of the Penguin Special Salad Days, the acclaimed novels The Adversary and Shirley, and the novel Letter to a Fortunate Ex, which will be published in 2025 by Penguin. He is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at RMIT University, where he is chief investigator on a history of Australian comics-making funded by the Australian Research Council (at foliocomics.com), and co-director of the non/fictionLab research group.

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Suffer for fashion

There were plenty of boys in Brisbane in 2001 who dressed in attentive and interesting ways. But you’d have to be sure of yourself, which I wasn’t, or you’d have to have been straight. For the rest of us, survival meant the avoidance of colour; you had to avoid flourishes, avoid anything tight, avoid the sense of a considered style. My vision of an appropriate male dresser involved jeans, in the tropical heat, and a T-shirt, again dark. Sneakers were the acceptable form of shoe, skate shoes if you were chancy, with a pair of Holeproof Heroes in black or grey.

Object permanence

Non-fictionTigger arrived with one eye and a tender but wary disposition, and at first it seemed like the missing eye would be the locus of his mystery. But within a few months of his living in my small apartment, he began presenting strange troubles – back legs listing when he turned a corner, spasms in his resting spine – that were quickly diagnosed as arthritis and diabetes.

My life with the wave

Non-fiction I WANT TO tell you about a difficult place that I visit regularly since moving to my suburb in the inner fringes of a large Australian city. The place is a gym, and I like it in the winter...

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