November 2010
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a pile of (shiny) stuff #6
Zoe Dattner of Sleepers Publishing was interviewed recently at the Kill Your Darlings blog by Estelle Tang, with a neat summary of the podcast’s contents to boot.
A very good rundown of what’s happening with UK literary magazines in the age of the Internet from the Guardian.
Via Bookforum, here be some slides from Jonathan Lethem’s upcoming book on the cult classic John...
“Nothing in this novel sounds contrived: everything is real, everything is an...”
– Roberto Bolaño looks into Andrés Neuman’s Future in Granta Magazine:Online Only.
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Tom Waits to publish book of poetry about living... →
In the neighbourhood….
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Something to read from Inside Story. Murat and... →
…why do I feel I should really be using Instapaper? it’s not as though I won’t come back here and read it, after all. Read more about Inside Story here. I’m also going to read this.
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meanwhile, Foster goes nuts... →
“Winners are grinners while losers must hope for the Patrick White Award.” He also laments the decline of the “Anglo-Australian pastoral ascendancy”, of which White was representative. “The sad fact is, literature does best in aristocracy or theocracy,” he says. “Democracy is the enemy of art.”
From The Australian. Thanks to Kerryn G for the...
The nasty side of sisterhood should not be swept... →
61 comments on this one and rising. Phyllis Chesler must be glad she wrote her book before the rise of social media.
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Cate Kennedy on the short story - RN Book Show -... →
TO LISTEN, TO LISTEN.
Lisa Dempster › Best thing I read this week: Mörön... →
HEH. Consider it reblogged!
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“In fact, music is never so powerful as when it breaks down the self’s defenses....”
– The School of Life : Alex Ross on Music
…this is a really good blog, Lisa D, and thanks for the heads-up.
I was brave enough to noodle on in the comments box. OW. Did I really do that?
“I am not qualified to praise the food itself, although the intensity of the...”
– Peter Stothard copes better with specials if the waiter is special-TLS blog
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very funny, mr marx →
Via Stephen Romei’s blog at The Australian, A Pair of Ragged Claws.
Louis Menand even writes about writing on telly.... →
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Ekleksographia: Wave Three: The Victoria Issue... →
Via Andrew, at Hi Spirits - this issue has poetry from Lisa Gorton, Kevin Brophy, Chris Wallace-Crabbe and Maria Takolander, among others.
The cover is a painting by A. Frances Johnson, with whom I shared friends at uni without often colliding. We have remedied that situation in recent times. She has three poems also, I note, in this issue. Brava!!
The issue also contains a very tasty looking...
“For some reason, these days, the Darling and the region beyond is captivating...”
– Travel: Dickens down under | Travel | The Observer Tom Keneally writing in The Observer. The story of Plorn Dickens is affecting.
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“Thomas’s solidarity with the Dannys of this world sometimes drove him to...”
– Let’s hear it for Gwyn Thomas, a writer more Chekhov than chips | Dai George in The Guardian
Well, I did not know about this third Thomas, so I might just have to chase him down.
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Paris Review – What Bloggers Owe Montaigne →
By Sarah Bakewell. I received this from PR on Twitter, and have already retweeted. A much kinder take on the matter than we are used to down here, where Montaigne and bloggers are nevr mentioned in the same article, let alone the same sentence.
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Sophie speaks...to Crikey →
On the MUP’s poorly communicated ‘strategy’ for the 70 year old journal, Meanjin. Among other things.
I should mention that I have a review published there this week, too - of Colm Tóibín’s new story collection, The Empty Family.
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The Atlantic Profile That Foreshadowed Tolstoy's... →
what a find!!!
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“I am not sure whether the novel is written for our convenience, but it is...”
– Anne Enright on the Irish short story in The Guardian
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something very beautiful from the Guardian books...
Poem of the week: The Black Guitar by Paul Henry
A discussion can be found at that link, of the following poem -
The Black Guitar
Clearing out ten years from a wardrobe I opened its lid and saw Joe written twice in its dust, in a child’s hand, then a squiggled seagull or two.
Joe, Joe
a man’s tears are worth nothing, but a...
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Readings: June to October 2010
Bradley, James. Resurrection
Jackson, Shirley. We Have Always Lived In The Castle
Lipsyte, Sam. The Ask
Lohrey, Amanda. Camille’s Bread (reread)
_____________ Reading Madame Bovary
_____________ Vertigo
McGregor, Fiona. Indelible Ink
Meloy, Maile. Both Ways Is The Way I Want It
___________ A Family Daughter
Moore, Lisa. February
Murray, Les. Taller When Prone
O’Hagan,...
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a pile of stuff #5
Amitava Kumar - The Barnes & Noble Review. Via Maud. In which theory seeks to be ‘mightily free’ of contradictions.
I didn’t realise the whole thing is now free. Including 2010 interviews. I am late to the party, I think.
Nicholas Carr notes a useful review by Sven Birkets of the latest slew of Internet assessments.
The Millions insists I read Manguel’s essay in the...
LRB · Colm Tóibín - what I can and can't read of... →
My review in Crikey of his latest is up on Tuesday. Buzz, buzz. In the meantime I’ll buy a few of these from the LRB shop.
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it's not called the green-eyed monster for nothing
I’m grateful to Daniel Wood who has posted a link to William Dalrymple’s Times review of the letters of Chatwin which is far less vitriolic than Rothwell’s nasty little piece in the Oz. You can read all about them both here, as Daniel weighs it all up. I just read the Dalrymple and cried a bit, then wondered again why Rothwell believes he can speak of Chatwin’s literary...
