Nikki Tranter has a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology/Criminology from La Trobe University in Melbourne and George Mason University in the U.S., and an M.A. in Professional Communication from Deakin University in Melbourne. She likes her puppy (Fulci the Fox Terrier), reading, painting, Take That, country music, and watching TV. Her favorite movie is Teen Wolf.
Features
Wednesday, June 9 2010
Funny Enough: An Interview with Tony Martin
Memoirist and comedian Tony Martin talks about commercial radio dumbasses and explains just what it is that makes Running with Scissors so darned unbelievable.
Friday, October 23 2009
Exit from Nowheresville: My 10 Years with PopMatters
This is my story of how the new media world impacted my life, as a rural Victorian with a big dream. How it changed, and continues to change, my everyday life. How it made me a writer, gave me the confidence to undertake post graduate study, how it gave me the edge I needed to get the job I now utterly love.
Wednesday, October 1 2008
No Easy Reasons: Interview with Camilla Noli
The question at the heart of Camilla Noli's debut novel, Still Waters, is this: Is every woman suited to motherhood? The book is a sharp, distressing look at the answer. PopMatters spoke to Noli about the book, the controversy, motherhood, and the writer's dream realized.
Wednesday, March 5 2008
Historian: Interview with Brian Garfield
"I think that, except for its ludicrous violence toward the end, the Death Sentence movie does depict its character's decline and the stupidity of vengeful vigilantism." Death Wish creator Brian Garfield talks to PopMatters about remakes, sequels, writing, and the meaning of vengeance.
Thursday, September 28 2006
Story Just Wrote With Music: Interview with Doug Hoekstra
"I do believe that, that even when someone is "bothering" the coffee drinkers, you can look around the audience and find folks connecting and digging what he or she is doing, and from those connections, all sorts of good things emerge, immediately or further on down the road."
Reviews
Monday, March 19 2007
The Last Kiss (2006)
This is not a revised look at new-young-adult ideals: it's an age-old crock.
Friday, March 2 2007
So NoTORIous: The Complete Series
This Tori is a performance. The real Tori is clearly much cooler. Don't you just hate her?
Thursday, February 8 2007
Jann Arden: A Work in Progress [DVD]
A Work in Progress reveals the good person that Jann Arden is, but not enough of the good musician that she is.
Friday, December 15 2006
Friends - The Complete Series Collection
Returning to Friends, as the cliché goes, is like visiting an old friend. It's also very much a step back in time; to our own history as much as television history.
Wednesday, November 22 2006
A Star is Found by Janet Hirshenson and Jane Jenkins
In an exuberant, faultlessly pleasant manner, the authors take us behind the Hollywood curtain and into a world often misunderstood.
Blogs
Monday, June 14 2010
Girl-Gothic: Five Minutes with Meg Cabot
Vampire stories may have been around for centuries, but it’s undeniable that they’ve never been quite this popular.





































