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Nick Milligan

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Nick Milligan has been a force in the Australian music industry for over two decades, whether it be as an influential freelance music journalist or his recent years working in festival promotion.

Milligan's literary career officially began in 2014 with the release of his debut novel Enormity. The sprawling epic is a scathing and dark rumination on religion, the music industry and celebrity worship.

He then published the short story collection Tomcat Feelings in 2017.

In 2024 Milligan released the novella Guardian.

Since 2002 Milligan has profiled some of the world’s most influential artists. He has been published in Frankie, Rolling Stone, YEN, Smash Hits, Hotpress, Dazed and Confused, and Reverb Magazine. He was the editor-in-chief of Reverb M
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Average rating: 3.91 · 233 ratings · 34 reviews · 9 distinct worksSimilar authors
Enormity

3.79 avg rating — 141 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions
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Enormity (Part One)

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Tomcat Feelings

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Guardian

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Part Two (Enormity Book 2)

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Megalodon

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Peripheral

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The Peeping Toms

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The Whale: review

Director Darren Aronofsky has long expressed his interest in studies of doomed characters. Requiem for a Dream and The Wrestler explored manifestations of grief and regret through compulsions and addictions, and how they lead to the destruction of the self.

The Whale fits into an informal trilogy with those two movies. Charlie, brought to life by a deeply committed performance from Brendan Fras

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“But the drugs don’t say no. Drugs don’t send you to your room without supper. They’re the careless parent that condones everything.”
Nick Milligan, Enormity

“They started calling people my grandfather’s age “generation ink”. He represents the era when extensive tattoos tipped into the mainstream. Now the old men and women sit together in the lounge room of my grandfather’s nursing home, watching daytime television. They don’t watch sport. Tattoos from their wrist to shoulders and across their chest, snake beneath their woolen cardigans and cotton shirts. Withered souls eternally painted in often incomprehensible scrawling. Faded colours. But that’s not to say that they regret getting inked. Far from it. It’s a part of who they are. As real and as precious as the blank skin they were born with. Their tastes in music haven’t mellowed either. They slowly approach the sound-system, leaning on their walking frame, and skip to songs by Pantera and Sepultura. Or Metallica, Slayer and Iron Maiden. My grandfather enjoyed punk and post-rock bands like Millencolin, Thursday, Coheed and Cambria or At The Drive-In.”
Nick Milligan, Part Two

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“I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.”
Edgar Allan Poe

“They started calling people my grandfather’s age “generation ink”. He represents the era when extensive tattoos tipped into the mainstream. Now the old men and women sit together in the lounge room of my grandfather’s nursing home, watching daytime television. They don’t watch sport. Tattoos from their wrist to shoulders and across their chest, snake beneath their woolen cardigans and cotton shirts. Withered souls eternally painted in often incomprehensible scrawling. Faded colours. But that’s not to say that they regret getting inked. Far from it. It’s a part of who they are. As real and as precious as the blank skin they were born with. Their tastes in music haven’t mellowed either. They slowly approach the sound-system, leaning on their walking frame, and skip to songs by Pantera and Sepultura. Or Metallica, Slayer and Iron Maiden. My grandfather enjoyed punk and post-rock bands like Millencolin, Thursday, Coheed and Cambria or At The Drive-In.”
Nick Milligan, Part Two

“But the drugs don’t say no. Drugs don’t send you to your room without supper. They’re the careless parent that condones everything.”
Nick Milligan, Enormity

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