Chris Flynn

FLYNN, Chris (credit Jo Duck)

Chris Flynn is the author of Mammoth (UQP, 2020), which was shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards and the Russell Prize for Humour Writing. His work has appeared in The Guardian, The Age, The Australian, Meanjin, Australian Book Review, McSweeney’s and The Paris Review, among many others. His latest book is the short-story collection Here Be Leviathans (UQP, 2022), which won the 2023 Aurealis Award and was shortlisted for the Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection in the Queensland Literary Awards.

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Rise of the reptiles

Non-fictionIn tandem with these plans to cultivate meat in laboratories, bioscience companies in Europe, North America, South Korea and China are currently working to resurrect living, breathing examples of the woolly mammoth, thylacine and dodo. While this may seem foolhardy, the intention is to restore nature’s balance by rewilding animal habitats and damaged ecosystems. Science will also provide a means to preserve species on the verge of extinction while weaning humanity from the environmentally damaging practices of commercial livestock farming...

Animal perspective

In ConversationERIN HORTLE: In Tasmania, there is a place where female octopuses emerge from the water and make their way across an isthmus, with a highway running across it, in search of habitat to extrude their eggs. Luckily, on the...

Panther

FictionWALKING ON TRAIN tracks is unnatural. The distance between the wooden sleepers is just longer than a normal footstep, so you have to look down constantly to make sure you don′t stumble. Staring along the railway line is disorienting,...

The Neon Boneyard

ReportageTHE ROAD TO the Neon Boneyard is littered with evidence that even the glitz and wealth of Las Vegas is not immune to the economic downturn so evident in other American cities. Our cab driver, Bryan, is from Denver....

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