August 2011
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The Medusa vs. The Odalisque: The Decemberists... →
Amusing and helpful literary appraisal of the Decemberists’ latest video from James Ley.
Oslo Davis interviewed on the marvellous MWF... →
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Language and Monsters: review of China Miéville's... →
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“This will be the largest expansion of the Australian welfare state in decades....”
– Disability Reform Will Be A Milestone | newmatilda.com
By Ben Eltham.
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“Even after I received the Pulitzer Prize, my father reminded me that writing...”
– Notes from a Literary Apprenticeship by Jhumpa Lahiri in the New Yorker.
(What, what to do with a parent who cautions Pulitzer Prize-winners? She is awfully kind to him.)
Link via Margo Lanagan’s blog, Among Amid Awhile.
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indigenous Australian fiction to go to San...
From the Victorian Writers’ Centre newsletter:
McSweeney’s quarterly set to publish Indigenous Australian fiction
An upcoming issue of Dave Eggers’s San Francisco-based fiction quarterly McSweeney’s will be partly devoted to contemporary Indigenous Australian fiction. In the past, McSweeney’s has featured curated sections of the quarterly dedicated to Icelandic, Norwegian and...
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a pile of stuff #20
On the KYD blog, Killings, Caroline Hamilton discusses National Bookshop Day and the current state of Oz book business.
A bunch of small press published writers have been nominated for the Asher Prize, awarded to writing by women with an anti-war theme, and worth ten grand. Details from the SPUNC blog.
The Beeb will show The Slap miniseries in October, sez The Guardian.
Finally found him! what...
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“the most stylish and grave and exact of writers”:... →
Via @NarrativeMag on Twitter.
Are There Too Many Books? - Peter Osnos in The... →
via @MelbourneArts on Twitter.
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A day in their shoes highlights need for NDIS -... →
Banana Stand. →
Might have to share this Pinterest page with ma famille.
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If PHP Were British... →
…it would mind its manners. Via Tumblr co-founder David Karp.
“…I’ve created a few additional hand gestures that might be helpful...”
– Christoph Niemann: Rock Paper Scissors, 2011 Style - NYTimes.com
Some very tough words from Harold Bloom at... →
you can haz free Hybrid Book from Mobylives.... →
Bolshy Divas profile 100 Western Australian... →
New review up at HEAT poetry online: Ashes in the... →
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“Pregnancy often seems to stretch infinitely for those waiting, hoping and...”
– Disability scheme will be worth the long wait – Opinion – ABC Ramp Up (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Professor Fiona Stanley writing for the ABC’s online disability gateway, Ramp Up.
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Best New Canadian writer? according to Salty Ink,... →
Introducing The Melville House HybridBook, a... →
“Our goal is to keep print books and print bookstores around for quite some time” - Melville House Publishing.
The quest to find the rhyme and reason behind... →
thanks to Australian poet Andrew Burke at Hi Spirits for the link.
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do I reblog myself? very well, then I reblog...
I am awake early, and reminding myself why I like Tumblr. Because the archive function means I can sweep back through old posts all across the screen and pick out ones I’d forgotten about.
And why not? Aren’t we saving things here so we can look at ‘em again sometime? Go on, indulge me
HERE,
HERE,
and HERE.
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Featured Author: James Salter- The New York Times →
Links to reviews of his books and some of his articles, web only feature. Thanks NYT.
(Note: copious logins required.)
Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 133, James... →
Building a brighter future for disabled... →
Tony Abbott demands disability reform timetable, →
and the nonsense begins…May it be brief and painless.
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Reading The Riots: Simon Armstrong has found five... →
And I follow his tumblr. Clearly I haven’t been following it attentively in recent days though.
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“Hello God - I hope you still remember me and keep some faith in me.”
– BBC News - On the trail of George Orwell’s outcasts
I don’t know which is more upsetting, the comparisons with Orwell’s day, the modern story as it stands, or simply this poor man’s prayer. By Emma Jane Kirby, via Simon Armstrong.
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Bruce Bonyhady on Radio National Breakfast, on the... →
Via @everyaustralian on Twitter.
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now this could be interesting...Exile on Fleet... →
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““I don’t know what that means. What is an Australianness about...”
– M.J. Hyland interviewed by Stephen Romei in The Australian. At first here, she is addressing the question of whether living in Australia has influenced her writing. And the second point is fairly made. It is a tiresome side-effect of interviews and writer’s festivals, this assumption that...
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“The uneasy accommodations of a corruptible young aesthete to an ambiguous social...”
– Hollinghurst on The Line Of Beauty | The Guardian
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