Smashed: Australian Drinking Stories

by Matthew Condon (editor), Richard Lawson (editor)

and it comes to us, out of the blue. Why not a collection of great Australian drinking stories from great Australian writers? Not just your average tales from braggarts, your volume-of-alcohol yarns, but something more. Something about the plains we all ride across after a few too many. The different landscapes we visit whilst drunk. the ones we pass through whilst getting drunk. The ones we find ourselves stuck in when we can't take another drop ...

511 pages

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

Matthew Steven Condon is a prize-winning Australian author and journalist.

Reviews

[alice tc · Rating 4 out of 5]

i am procrastinating on fisher lvl7…. admire an anthology with contributors incl both frank moorhouse and gretel kileen

[Mandy Partridge · Rating 4 out of 5]

Including Henry Lawson's letter to the editor to defend his drinking is perhaps not the wisest way to start an anthology. The man was a tragic alcoholic wife-abuser, who wondered why his wife didn't want kids, and died of his alcoholism.
Other writers who at least are humorous and not massive hypocrites, include Venero Armano, Carmel Bird, John Birmingham, Matthew Condon who edited, Nick Earls, Gretel Killeen, Mandy Sayer, Christos Tsiolkas and Emma Tom.
Funny, but also cringe-ful.

[Brady Salz · Rating 2 out of 5]

A few fantastic tales but the majority of them didn't land for me.

[Kathi · Rating 3 out of 5]

A few of these short stories stood out as good, but the majority of them have aged badly.

[Sean · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great collection of yarns from the disturbingly black to the hysterical. Many characters places and situations that are all too familiar.