December 2011
38 posts
This is called curating. Yusss. →
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Seth's Blog: The future of the library →
…something else I didn’t get time to read this year.
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“Nan Shepherd’s “The Living Mountain” (1977) is a meandering diversion of a tale...”
– The School of Life : Dear Bibliotherapist
Sounds like the kind of thing I would definitely like. To read, to read…
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"Dream Good": or, wake up and fight. New Year... →
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Shelf life in hard times - UK publishing stars. By... →
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Introducing Book Pickings: A Visual Bookshelf by... →
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And here's another goodie I found earlier - Mind... →
Via givemesomethingtoread, earlier in the season.
Have a safe and happy Christmas, everyone. I’m off to wrap and write cards and clean up my house (yes, it will take a week. It will!)
Enjoyed very much hearing Tim Minchin’s terrific ode to Christmas with the SSO on the ABC last night, particularly the softening of a rather stern violinist’s face just behind him, to the right,...
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some holiday reading again, for the nonce:...
A bit of an unusual link here (within an email, rather than on their tumblr, which is funny.) I’ve reposted, as I didn’t like that photo in the first reblog.
But some of these will make for some interesting holiday reading.
longreads:
Here are our Top 10 Longreads of 2011.
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“George’s Shakespeare and Company goes beyond the standards of a “good bookshop,”...”
– Maitresse: On George Whitman, 1913-2011
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where are the bits of Hitch in Granta? here they... →
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Thatcher biographer says The Iron Lady is... →
Hmmm, I am going to see this.
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You and Mark Aren't Friends →
thenewinquiry:
Facebook’s Timeline turns your old updates into an unexpurgated biography
by Giovanni Tiso at The New Inquiry
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poetry doesn't pay. who knew? New York Magazine...
THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED DOESN’T PAY FOR GROCERIES Second job of noted poets.
Will Hubbard Credentials: Wrote Cursivism, published by Ugly Duckling Presse. Second Job: Manages the noise-pop duo Sleigh Bells.
Naoko Fujimoto Credentials: Published in Hotel Amerika, Potomac Review, Passages North, and New Madrid. Second Job:Purchasing associate at a Japanese tool company.
Tomas Tranströmer ...
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Truth, Fiction and Autumn Laing — A Conversation... →
Very handy, I have just finished reading this rather seductive new book from Mr M. Maybe I prefer Prochownik’s Dream, maybe not.
It is beautifully written, as always, humorous, energetic and thought-provoking. Along the lines of, how do we keep these arty people out of our storytelling? what kind of story does a biographer tell? Funny old Heide place.
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they'll none of 'em be missed...NYRB collations... →
nyrbclassics:
It’s that time of the year again, when everyone is posting their “Best Books of the Year” lists. And few places do it better that The Millions, who ask authors to name their favorite books of the ending year.
Here’s a round-up of our titles in The Millions’s lists:
Stephen Dodson, blogger…
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The Pump You Pump the Water From →
lareviewofbooks:
SVEN BIRKERTS on writer’s block. Image: cc Lisa Jane Persky
When I come upon a bad assonance or a repetition in my sentences, I’m sure I’m floundering in the false. By searching I find the proper expression, which was always the only one, and which is also harmonious. The word is never lacking when one possesses the idea. Is there not, in this precise fitting of parts, something...
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The Ampersand Project: Unearthing the secret lives... →
This will be a shot in the arm for YA authors - if you have a vibrant YA novel waiting to explode into publication in Australia, have a sticky at this.
Thanks to @EmMaguire for the link on Twitter.
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“Since I was a child I’ve dreamt of a (moveable) house containing all the people...”
– Tempeh matters: the launch of Janet De Neefe’s Bali: The Food of My Island Home
Angela has nailed it, as usual. I really, really like that dream of hers.
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"I had finally stopped hoping for a miracle"
This heart-rending article appeared in the November 25-26 Weekend Australian Magazine. Regrettably it is now behind a paywall - I had a fulltext copy emailed to me courtesy of my public library’s subscription to Australia and New Zealand News Stand.
I was away, taking a much-needed break myself, when this article appeared about the relinquishment of an 8 year old boy, Sam, to the State...
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Silence Speaks →
This initiative was founded by the Center for Digital Storytelling at the University of Berkeley, California.
I met Joe Lambert in 2006 and heard him speak, and found the work of this organisation deeply affecting.
Do consider purchasing the Silence Speaks DVD - samples here, and the sales go to funding further work.
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A Different Stripe: Happy Birthday Sylvia Townsend... →
nyrbclassics:
Today in 1893 Sylvia Townsend Warner was born. We are proud to put back into print three of Townsend Warner’s novels: Lolly Willowes, Summer Will Show, and this past August, Mr. Fortune (an edition that combines both the novel Mr. Fortune’s Maggot and the follow-up novella The…
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Email subscription available for Mulberry Road...
see down to the left.
It’s because I’ll be tweeting less in the future. I think.
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“The tough but charming Schwartz, who has made millions of dollars in property...”
– Read more at The Power Index.
Media Maestros - Morry Schwartz. By Paul Barry.
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Anne Manne on Disability: The New Frontier of... →
A few weeks back, Anne Manne spoke at the Lunchbox/Soapbox event, a followup to her terrific article on the National Disability Insurance Scheme in August’s Monthly.
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a pile of stuff #23
Three endings to Washington Square. (At Patell and Waterman’s History of New York blog.)
At Adrian McKinty’s blog, this video of Jacques Barzun, who is 104. Zut alors et bon anniversaire!
Avi Steinberg’s Prison Library Tales sounds like a good read indeed. Link via Maud Newton.
This is pretty horrible, really. On writers and logrolling, at the LARB on Tumblr.
Cordite #36,...
November 2011
40 posts
Tune into Southerly this December for... →
- bring it on!
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Australia’s poor disability record made public... →
Read the report from the link at the NDIS campaign website, or listen to radio commentary from Bruce Bonyhady.
There was a report in The Age yesterday by Jessica Wright on the PriceWaterhouse Coopers report on disability expectations:
Australians living with a disability have the worst quality of life in the developed world and their employment opportunities have hit rock bottom, according to...