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Universal Heart Book Club: December 2014
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About Universal Heart Book Club. Tuesday, December 16, 2014. GIFT suggestions from the WRITERS' WORKSHOP. Stephanie Dowrick offered a new course in 2014 for the Faber Writing Academy. We know you will enjoy these prompts. And, when it comes to books, lavish gifts for "self" are totally acceptable! Wherever possible we have given you POSTAGE FREE purchase links.). Book that I’d like to give for Christmas? For my non-fiction-loving papa. Romulus My Father. Oh, how I love to give books for Christmas. It...
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Australian Literature Diary: September 2010
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Ideas, news, reflections, gossip, pictures, reviews and scuttlebutt: a partial and personal view. Tuesday, September 14, 2010. This blog is expanded and continued here. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Read, Think, Write. Is dedicated to all things books and writing. It incorporates two previous blogs, Australian Literature Diary. 2005-2010) and Ask the Brontë Sisters. May-July 2007). Still Life With Cat. View my complete profile. Australian lit and culture blogs and websites. Australian w...
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Australian Literature Diary: April 2009
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Ideas, news, reflections, gossip, pictures, reviews and scuttlebutt: a partial and personal view. Saturday, April 18, 2009. Miles Franklin and the Mystery of Talent, or, Don't Mention the War. Because I am supposed to be a grown-up, and because I made a promise, I'm not buying into the question of the. But otherwise the howling restraint is making my ears bleed, so here by way of self-distraction is a little material on a related question: not what makes a good book, but what makes a good writer. By Pete...
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Australian Literature Diary: October 2009
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Ideas, news, reflections, gossip, pictures, reviews and scuttlebutt: a partial and personal view. Wednesday, October 21, 2009. Last night I went to the premiere screening of a new short film by young local filmmakers Sonya Humphrey (producer) and Ashlee Page (writer-director). Adelaide's Mercury Cinema was filled to capacity, no mean feat at 6.30 on a warm Tuesday evening, by a crowd that included some well-known faces. Cross-posted from Still Life With Cat. Links to this post. Friday, October 09, 2009.
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Australian Literature Diary: May 2009
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Ideas, news, reflections, gossip, pictures, reviews and scuttlebutt: a partial and personal view. Tuesday, May 26, 2009. I started this post two days ago and have been dithering about putting it up ever since, but I've counted no fewer than five articles and posts online today on the subject so I might as well toss in my two cents - Ed. The new editor of The Monthly. Co-edited by Naparstek and Justin Clemens, then there is no question but that he is every bit as brilliant as people are saying. But the se...
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darkly wise, rudely great: Sydney Writers' Festival 2015
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Darkly wise, rudely great. The Art of Reading. How to Think About Exercise. Philosophy in the Garden. Philosophy and the Martial Arts: Engagement. Martial Arts and Philosophy. My Nanna is a Ninja. My Pop is a Pirate. My Sister is a Superhero. Tuesday, May 26, 2015. Sydney Writers' Festival 2015. At the podium, day two. Last week I was a guest at the Sydney Writers' Festival. A four-day program with twenty-two sessions, my schedule was unusually busy. On Chinese divination and fortune. And on Saturday nig...
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Rebecca Freeborn | Writer, reader, horse rider, unapologetic grammar nazi, consumer of good food and wine. | Page 2
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Writer, reader, horse rider, unapologetic grammar nazi, consumer of good food and wine. May 27, 2013. 2013 Sydney Writers’ Festival. A few days ago I returned from the Sydney Writers’ Festival – the first I have attended, and hopefully not the last. One of the authors in the festival, but also to meet with my agent, with whom I had only communicated via email. Later that afternoon I went to a session on writing painful experiences, one that is relevant to me as my current work in progress has a focus on ...
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Australian Literature Diary: September 2009
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Ideas, news, reflections, gossip, pictures, reviews and scuttlebutt: a partial and personal view. Tuesday, September 15, 2009. There are four kinds of book review. There's the good good review. Which is both favourable about its subject and skilfully, knowledgeably written on the basis of a careful, thorough reading of the book in question. There's the good bad review. Which is well executed in all respects but unfavourable. There's the bad good review. And finally there's the bad bad review. Of the book,.
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Australian Literature Diary: Glenda Guest and Siddon Rock
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Ideas, news, reflections, gossip, pictures, reviews and scuttlebutt: a partial and personal view. 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 dusty slouch h...
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Australian Literature Diary: March 2009
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Ideas, news, reflections, gossip, pictures, reviews and scuttlebutt: a partial and personal view. Tuesday, March 24, 2009. Literary prizes revisited: a simple case of misidentification. Thanks to some up-to-the-minute Facebooking by Judith Ridge of Misrule. I have just seen the shortlist for the 2009 NSW Premier's Prize for Fiction, the Christina Stead Award. It consists of five of the six books I predicted, utterly wrongly. Kate Grenville's The Lieutenant. Joan London's The Good Parents. Finally at 2 am.
