On Friday March 2, Penguin Plays Rough is turning its focus off-shore. Fully wet-suited and flippered, we will present to you: 1) Norwegian novelist JOHAN HARSTAD. Johan’s first novel, Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion? has been described as “A modern saga of rocketships, ice floes, and dreams of the Caribbean.”… [Read more…]
January 26, 2012
If you would like to get your chops up recording live audio and producing it into web and radio-friendly sound files people would download, re-listen to, or crash their cars into telegraph poles over, then Penguin Plays Rough would like to talk to you. Perhaps you are studying Media, or perhaps you have experience recording… [Read more…]
January 9, 2012
Saturday, January 21. 8pm. 4 Lackey St, St Peters. January’s PPR is all about going places, and getting lost. Or going places to get lost. It’s about road trips, back-route highways, ghost towns, or paths that connect people the long way round. Featuring stories by: HADLEY (from Mr Fibby) of Our Nation’s Capital. He performs… [Read more…]
November 12, 2011
With more focused energy than the Large Hadron Collider buried under the Franco-Swiss boarder, Penguin Plays Rough and Seizure Magazine are going to explode some of the mysteries of SCIENCE into tiny, quivering quarks. You may or may not hear a brief history of teleportation, what happens when geometry has its own country, find out… [Read more…]
September 22, 2011
No, we’re not re-living a recycling campaign from the 90s. We’re singing along to Oscar & Martin and daydreaming about when they’ll be singing to us at the launch tomorrow. And recycling. We’re doing two right things at once. We’re also doing another right thing by telling you that Grolsch are very generously stocking us… [Read more…]
September 19, 2011
In four sleeps Melbourne will be launching our book. Yes, it is four months after the Sydney launch, and the book is already available in a variety of Melbourne bookstores but four months seems to be how long it takes for Launch Vibes to percolate down the coast and pool in a Launch Venue, or… [Read more…]
May 23, 2011
Right now, the book that has pushed so many to three different kinds of edges (the financial edge, the page’s edge, and the edge of the harbour at the Sydney Dance Cafe) is now also on the edge of a counter or shelf at the following stores: Gleebooks on Glebe Point Rd, Glebe Better Read… [Read more…]
May 23, 2011
Thank you to all who came down to the Sydney Dance Cafe on Saturday night to help celebrate the launch of our very first book. Not only did our programmed writers read with delicious panache, but the wildcards knocked everyone off their perches. The room was lined 23 posters, one for each story in the… [Read more…]
April 1, 2011
ALREADY BANNED IN THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA, the Penguin Plays Rough Book of Short Stories is suffering a tortured upbringing. No one seems to understand her. Which is why, on Saturday, May 21, from 7 pm SHARP, we will be catapulting our book into the the loving and understanding arms of Sydney-siders, and we… [Read more…]
February 5, 2011
And this is an audio file of Pip talking about the PPR Book of Short Stories: 26.12.10 – Canvas feat Pip Smith So there you have both visual and aural evidence that there is a PPR Book of Short Stories currently growing fingers and toes in the Great Womb of Sydney. In case you can’t… [Read more…]
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