Oliver Mol

Oliver Mol is the author of Lion Attack! He has published over 60 works nationally and overseas. Rolling Stone Australia called him: King of a New Jungle. He is working on his second book.

Works By Oliver Mol

Translating New Worlds with Megan McDowell
There’s this thing people do when they talk about translation that I find very frustrating – they focus on what is lost in the process, and I really think that is putting the emphasis on the wrong thing. Because just look at all that is gained. Yo...
7 Aug. 2022
Literature to Save Us
It is Winkler’s attempt to document Grim’s unfathomable life – to indirectly, absorb and transform some of his pain – that allows us, humbly, to see the beauty and validity in all lives, and to better see our own.
1 May. 2022
Standing on Mountains with Scott McClanahan
‘I’ve always wanted to change and do something different than just Scott McClanahan stories.’
13 Feb. 2022
In The Garden with Amanda Lohrey
The original meaning of the word novel meant to bring news, and I cling to the old-fashioned, realist, meaning of the novel: bring news.
31 Oct. 2021
La Vida
How’s the writing going? Robbie would ask, sometimes, on the way home, and I would smile and tell him, Not bad, though as the days wore on I would imagine that pathetic, half-sketched character who was not me but who closely resembled me lying on
26 Nov. 2020
Train Lord
Congratulations, our teacher said on the last day of school. You’ve all won the lottery. I’ve been with the railway for 47 years, and I’ve never worked a day in my life.
24 Nov. 2019
This Is Not A Love Story
'This is not an essay or a book review. This is a love story. I fell in love with writing, and then I stopped. I’m trying to figure out what happened, and whether I can fall in love again'
30 Oct. 2018

Works Featuring Oliver Mol

The Writer Who No Longer Wrote
There is a sub-genre of metafiction that presents to the reader the writer who can no longer write, but who, in the process of writing about his writer’s block, has written the book that you are reading.
23 Feb. 2023