Jo Lennan Jo Lennan i(6396150 works by)
Born: Established: Wollongong, Wollongong area, Illawarra, South Coast, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Female
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1 6 y separately published work icon In the Time of Foxes Jo Lennan , Cammeray : Simon and Schuster Australia , 2020 19105329 2020 selected work short story

'A fox could be a shape-shifter, a spirit being. It could appear in human form if this suited its purposes; it could come and go as it pleased, play tricks, lead men astray.’

'A film director in Hackney with a fox problem in her garden; an escapee from a cult in Japan; a Sydney café-owner rekindling an old flame; an English tutor who gets too close to an oligarch; a journalist on Mars, face-to-face with his fate.

'The world has taught these men and women to live off their wits. They know how to play smart, but what happens when they need to be wise?

'In the Time of Foxes is both compellingly readable and deeply insightful about the times in which we live, each narrative a compressed novel. With an exhilarating span of people and places, woven together by the most mercurial of animals, it shows the short story collection at its most entertaining and rewarding, and introduces Jo Lennan as a captivating new storyteller.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 New York Picaresque : The Cosmopolitanism of Christina Stead's Letty Fox : Her Luck Jo Lennan , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , vol. 32 no. 1/2 2018; (p. 297-316)

'Letty Fox: Her Luck was Christina Stead's sixth novel. It was published in October 1946, a year after the end of World War II. It is set in Manhattan and was largely written there (Rowley 246, 282). Stead had come to New York not from Sydney, her home city, but via England and continental Europe, where she had lived with her longtime partner (and later husband), William Blake. Blake was a Jewish American broker, economist, and writer, and Hitler's pursuit of Lebensraum had persuaded the couple to quit the continent for the United States. As confirmed Europhiles, they found the adjustment difficult at times. Both Stead and Blake made sporadic forays away from the city in search of work, trying their hands at screenwriting for MGM in California, for example, and writing applications for Guggenheim grants (Rowley 267). Stead also taught courses on the novel at New York University.' (Introduction)

1 The Black Madonna Jo Lennan , 2015 single work short story
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 74 no. 1 2015; (p. 123-129)
1 How Great Is Your Life? Jo Lennan , 2014 single work short story
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 73 no. 4 2014; (p. 120-129) The Best Australian Stories 2015 2015; (p. 99-112)
1 The Train from Wagga Wagga : A New Yorker en Route Jo Lennan , 2014 single work column
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 73 no. 1 2014; (p. 10-12)
1 Glamarama Jo Lennan , 2014 single work prose
— Appears in: Meanjin , Spring vol. 72 no. 4 2014; (p. 13-15)
1 Playing it Straight Jo Lennan , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Monthly , August no. 92 2013; (p. 38-40)
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