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Read, Think, Write: Patrick White Award, prizes, lists, elephant stamps and so on
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Read, Think, Write. A blog about reading and writing by a reader and writer. There will also be some thinking. Tuesday, November 16, 2010. Patrick White Award, prizes, lists, elephant stamps and so on. The brilliant David Foster has won the 2010 Patrick White Award. And used his acceptance speech, as he is wont to do whenever he wins something, to attack something or somebody else. This is my Aust Lit List of writers. Was in, and what it was for. And how it fitted together with all the other things that ...
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Pavlov's Cat: June 2008
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Pavlov [dot] cat [at] gmail [dot] com. Friday, June 27, 2008. Friday mogblogging: religious instruction. Links to this post. Labels: All creatures great and small. Wednesday, June 25, 2008. Life imitates art: notes on the week's reading. One of this week's four novels is Jincy Willett's The Writing Class. I've read your story,' said Amy, trying to remember its particulars. "The Good Woman".'. You said it didn't work.'. And from that you surmise what? That you're observant,' said Amy. 'That you've alw...
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Read, Think, Write: Book progress FAIL
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Read, Think, Write. A blog about reading and writing by a reader and writer. There will also be some thinking. Monday, September 13, 2010. September 13, 2010 at 1:23 PM. I wonder how much is taught in the ubiquitous creative writing courses about shaping a text. Its what Ive been doing all weekend, for my sins - and a lot of the challenge is harmonising disparate sections of a report written by different people and making them into an actual report. It occurred to me while I was doing it that what I was ...
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Read, Think, Write: June 2011
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Read, Think, Write. A blog about reading and writing by a reader and writer. There will also be some thinking. Friday, June 17, 2011. In which Ian Rankin does something unusual. Here's a little puzzle for people who habitually read literary journalism, especially in Australia. What is quite unusual about this piece. What does it have that we don't often see in articles about literary favourites and highlights, or indeed in literary journalism at all? Still Life With Cat. Friday, June 3, 2011. But it stri...
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Read, Think, Write: In which the young Harper helps out the old Harper
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Read, Think, Write. A blog about reading and writing by a reader and writer. There will also be some thinking. Friday, July 22, 2011. In which the young Harper helps out the old Harper. Yesterday I posted on Facebook a link to an article about the fact that sales of To Kill a Mockingbird. I didn't know this lovely story from the Wikipedia entry about how To Kill a Mockingbird. Came to be written, so here it is. Props to Michael Brown or what? They don't make patrons like that any more. Unbelievable oppor...
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Read, Think, Write: Stage and screen
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Read, Think, Write. A blog about reading and writing by a reader and writer. There will also be some thinking. Wednesday, July 7, 2010. Of space, that gives the writers a bit of room to move, to amplify and stretch. The first is a piece in today's Australian Literary Review. By Peter Craven about the filming of Patrick White's 1973 novel The Eye of the Storm. The other, earlier piece, also courtesy of The Australian. Is quite similar in conception: theatre critic John McCallum's really lovely piece.
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Read, Think, Write: Glenda Guest and Siddon Rock
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Read, Think, Write. A blog about reading and writing by a reader and writer. There will also be some thinking. Tuesday, April 13, 2010. Glenda Guest and Siddon Rock. What's inspired me to start today, though, is the news this morning that first-time novelist Glenda Guest. Has won the Best First Book prize in the Commonwealth Literary Awards for her novel Siddon Rock. When Macha Connor came home from the war she walked into town as naked as the day she was born, except for well-worn and shining boots, a d...
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Read, Think, Write: Abandoning the good ship Apostrophe
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Read, Think, Write. A blog about reading and writing by a reader and writer. There will also be some thinking. Saturday, September 18, 2010. Abandoning the good ship Apostrophe. So, which major Australian publisher's website contains the following, in a bio of one of its fiction writers? Insert name of author here] lives in a partially renovated house in the Dandenong's. September 19, 2010 at 2:27 PM. Ouch (And not a shoestring operation either). November 12, 2010 at 1:28 PM. Words really fail me at this...
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Reading Underwater: October 2006
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I used to blog about books - until I got the complete Stargate boxed set. View my complete profile. Places Mary likes to go. A Bex and Good Lie Down. Sorrow at Sill's Bend. The View from Elsewhere. Head of the Corner. Must be here somewhere. Regrets, I have a few. Blog Entry 220: in which Mary tries vainly to say. Drugs are bad, mmkay. Only picky because I care. Pinks just a colour like any other. Tuesday, October 31, 2006. Laziness or working to change the things you can? Posted by Mary Bennet 1:54 pm.
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Reading Underwater: January 2006
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I used to blog about books - until I got the complete Stargate boxed set. View my complete profile. Places Mary likes to go. A Bex and Good Lie Down. Sorrow at Sill's Bend. The View from Elsewhere. Head of the Corner. Must be here somewhere. Regrets, I have a few. Blog Entry 220: in which Mary tries vainly to say. Drugs are bad, mmkay. Only picky because I care. Pinks just a colour like any other. Monday, January 30, 2006. The importance of planning ahead. And it's not anyone you might have suspected.