February 2012
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A Hundred Bolts of Satin by Kay Ryan - Poetry... →
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This morning's listening and reading: Parliament... →
via Poetry Archive.
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Melville House Books » The Late Lord Byron →
Something I might buy. The Neversink library is an imprint of Melville House.
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“Don’t yell at them for daydreaming. If you date a writer, you will sometimes...”
– Canada Writes - How to date a writer: Heather O’Neill.
(Via dumbfoundry poetry newsblog.)
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“I was lucky to grow up in a house full of books, lucky to be taken to the...”
– jennifer mills – blog › National Year of Reading
Writer Jennifer Mills launched Australia’s National Year of Reading the other day in Baklava, South Australia.
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“Robert Hughes once referred to Matisse’s ‘The Dance’ as one of the few wholly...”
– darkly wise, rudely great: Matisse: Drawing Life
Damon Young gave a talk at GoMA’s Matisse exhibition on the weekend. Unfortunately it has not been webcast and so we have to be content with this quote, from his blog.
Colin Dickey writes glowingly of Brian Castro’s... →
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Alison Croggon's essay on, and translations of,... →
Essay first published in UK poetry magazine Agenda. (Links to the translations follow the essay).
Dear Rilke. If he were not a great poet, he might be one of the most purely annoying figures in the literary pantheon. Few poets have been responsible for as much bilge as Rilke has: he seems to be a magnet for a certain kind of literary narcissism. His invocations to self-insight and solitude can...
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“The e-book, by eliminating all variations in the appearance and weight of the...”
– E-books Can’t Burn by Tim Parks
From the New York Review of Books blog - thanks to @textpublishing on Twitter for the link.
This is a neat tie-in with what I read yesterday in the latest Meanjin, a beautifully written essay by Ivor Indyk meditating on (among other things) these notions of...
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a pile of stuff #24
St. Kilda denizen Adrian McKinty speaks to Readings about his latest crime novel, The Cold Cold Ground, which has been reviewed very favourably by the Guardian:
What makes McKinty a cut above the rest is the quality of his prose. His driven, spat-out sentences are more accessible than James Ellroy’s edge-of-reason staccato, and he can be lyric. The sound of a riot is “the distant...
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Art Nation - William Delafield Cook - Video - ABC... →
I went to the exhibition shown in this video (link also in the title to this post) yesterday morning.
Tarrawarra Museum of Modern Art has to be one of my favourite places. Easy.
The experience of viewing this man’s work in that space was deeply reflective and calming, even on the second last viewing day when there was a gentle babble of visitors’ voices drifting down the...
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EYE SOCKET JOURNAL: Ivy Alvarez →
…has four poems.
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“…Mr Abbott showed what he didn’t know about the National Disability...”
– Bill Shorten on Tony Abbott’s Press Club Speech,
At the NDIS campaign website, everyaustraliancounts.com.au.
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Craig Raine investigates the Four Quartets, with... →
Thanks to Ivy Alvarez for the link.
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Mary Talbot and Bryan Talbot have captured Lucia... →
And it sounds (and looks) good, too:
In her graphic memoir-cum-biography, Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes, Mary M Talbot, an academic, tells Lucia’s tale in all its misery. For her, though, this interest is personal: Talbot is the daughter of the eminent Joyce scholar James S Atherton (his The Books at the Wakeis still the best guide to the literary allusions in Joyce’s final...
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World's First Magnetic Soap Could Revolutionize... →
January 2012
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“The thing is, Mr Abbott, fixing the broken disability system we have in this...”
– Disability funding is no indulgence, Mr Abbott - The Drum (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
What a ghastly individual he is. Let’s hope the rest of the party has a conscience and a connection to the rest of the community. We will not go away, Tony A.
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Someone who should know tells us why most crime... →
The link above is Part Two of Adrian McKinty’s dissection of crime fiction publishing.
The first post is here (and has 148 comments):
In an ideal world only first novels would be published. The new writer has something to say and they put everything into that one book - all their jokes, all their sylistic quirks, all the things that make them weird and interesting; the book would come out...
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How To Find That One Thing You Lost Online →
…this sounds very clever indeed. From ReadWriteWeb.
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My review of Foal's Bread by Gillian Mears is now... →
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GERALD MURNANE - Studios - The Apiary →
One minute inside Gerald Murnane’s writing haven. Filing cabinets and all. Thanks to Daniel Wood for the link.
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“Mrs Winterson continued to have an effect on life choices far removed from her...”
– Rather tough essay-review on Jeanette Winterson’s Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? This quote happens to be something I rather sympathise with, even consider it to be something my own family members do.
Sure, Winterson may be a bit larger than life, but some of her experiences are not...
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“Friendship is so important that in English, even before the rise of Facebook,...”
– You’ve got to have friends | Inside Story
Anna Cristina Pertierra reviewed three books on friendship, on and offline, for Inside Story earlier this year.
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“We have a dialectical relationship with our machines: We create systems and they...”
– Ellen Ullman interview - Close to the Machine
This is one of the most interesting statements in this interview with programmer Ellen Ullman, in issue 15 of Stay Free magazine. Link via Maud Newton.
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Virago Press News & Blog | These Books Will Shock... →
I am doing my bit for the 2012 Australian Women Writers Challenge in my own way, part of which is to keep an eye on what an old and trusted favourite publisher is doing.
I must have read buckets of their books in the nineties, all from the library. All the fine green-bound ladies. Good to see this outfit is still going strong.
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“I was about 11 years old when reading finally ‘clicked’ for me. My...”
– Graeme Base is an award-winning writer and illustrator and a national ambassador for Australia’s National Year of Reading 2012.
I do like the bit about the screen inside your head.
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The Believer - Absent Things As If They Are... →
Very striking opening to this article. May have to chase it up, after Heti’s recommendation at The Believer Logger.
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The novel approach - David Malouf →
as noted by @charlotteshucks (Charlotte Wood) on Twitter.
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British Library launches eBook Treasures →
Via Twitter. Illuminated manuscripts now available for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. O brave new world.
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Ace Ventura Turns 50
I really enjoyed reading this rather poorly formatted Newsweek article at The Daily Beast this morning.
Carrey is still an exhilarating physical comic, and my favourite movie quote is still ” we’re all doing a great job here” (or words to that effect) from Liar Liar.
nwkarchivist:
Newsweek June 26, 1995
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Walkabout is republished at NYRB Classics →
nyrbclassics:
We are proud to release today Walkabout by James Vance Marshall (it’s actually a complicated authorship, the introduction below has more details), which was famously adapted into a film by Nicolas Roeg, starring David Gulpilil in his first role.
What is the Meaning of it, Watson? →
Via Maud on Twitter. To Read.
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