After Lolita by Cassandra Atherton (1.7 MB)

Ahadada Books is pleased to present After Lolita by Cassandra L. Atherton. After Lolita is the twenty-seventh release in the Ahadada Books Online Chapbook series.

Cassandra Atherton is a writer, critic and balletomane from Victoria, Australia.  She completed her PhD at The University of Melbourne, Australia.  Her book, Flashing Eyes and Floating Hair: A Reading of Gwen Harwood's Pseudonymous Poetry, was published by Australian Scholarly press and she is currently revising Wise Guys: The Role and Responsibility of the Academic Public Intellectual in America for publication.  This book is based on her interviews with Professors Harold Bloom, Camille Paglia, Stephen Greenblatt, Todd Gitlin, Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky, among many others.  She is a lead interviewer for the University of California’s Writing on the Edge journal and a reviewer for the Italian journal Il Tolomeo.  She is currently editing an Australian edition of the journal Ekleksographia.

Cassandra lectures at both The University of Melbourne and Deakin University in Australian literature, Canonical Poetry, Literary Classics, Romanticism, Modernism and Creative Writing.  She has published extensively in Australian and American journals and her novel, The Man Jar, is being published later this year by Printed Matter Press.  She is currently working on her second novel, Cherry Bomb, after being awarded the Felix Meyer Fellowship and traveling to Japan to research the floating world and roricon.  She would like to return to Tokyo in the next few years to live and teach.

In 2008, Cassandra married Dr Glenn Moore, a lecturer in American history at The University of Melbourne, in Boston, Massachusetts.  They live with their two ragdoll cats, Bellamy and Tallulah in Moonee Ponds.  Cassandra is obsessed with Mikhail Baryshnikov, Christian Louboutin shoes, Alannah Hill dresses, cherry blossoms and Long Island Iced Teas.