March 2012
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play that junky music - MICF in Box Hill for the...
This is a link to my brother and sister-in-law’s show in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Bernard and Katy toured a show to remote communities and schools in the Centre on a trip with their three children in 2010. This is a new show, I believe, with a comic edge and some extra instruments, including a ram’s horn I saw when it was delivered about six months...
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“I view genre as a range of colours a writer has in his/her paintbox, rather than...”
– David Mitchell talks to the Galway Advertiser about his work, prior to an Irish writers’ festival.
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At ReadWriteWeb, the case for Google is argued by... →
I first heard about the Gizmodo piece via Jay Rosen’s Twitter feed. Go read! all will be revealed…
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Lucas Smith reviews District and Circle at The... →
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Faulkner country and fun times. (Jealousy is one... →
And her Great Aunt has an official archive. !
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Let’s Make OpenPhilosophy.org! | Open Knowledge... →
A useful collaboration is on the way, reports Jonathan Gray of the Open Knowledge Foundation:
A little while ago I posted some ideas for a project called OpenPhilosophy.org, which would enable users to transcribe, translate, annotate and create collections of philosophical texts which have entered the public domain.
As was announced last week on this blog, the project has secured some funding...
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Ampersand Duck: Dawn, in full glory →
Great post by Caren Florance, printer and designer, on Louisa Lawson’s Dawn magazine, which has now been digitised by the National Library of Australia and is available to read online.
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“Well Water - Roland Jarrell
What a girl called “the dailiness of life”...”
– Quoted at the end of an article by Sven Birkets on writer’s block, in the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Not sure I agree with him and his friend that it’s about writing though. I think ‘dailiness’ says it all.
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“…I think precision in writing goes hand in hand with not trying to say...”
– Guernica / Ondaatje’s Table
Excellent interview of Michael Ondaatje by Amitava Kumar at the Jaipur Literary festival. Link via the Literary Saloon.
I also liked these remarks:
The great writer Donald Richie who lives in Japan talks about the distinction between East and West: the Western novel...
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Help! My On-Line Presence Is Killing Me! | Beyond... →
Chris Abouzeid is funny as well as truthful, an irresistible combination. Writers of the future, read and beware.
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BBC News - Bletchley Park tweet saves Alan Turing... →
This is quite a story - valuable papers by Alan Turing became affordable for the Bletchley Park Trust, thanks to a sad tweet, a viral campaign and some grunt from Google.
Director of museum operations Kelsey Griffin spotted they had come up for sale at Christie’s auction house, and took matters into her own hands, turning to the social media network Twitter.
Disappointed to realise that...
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Jean Giraud, or Moebius, dies at 73; master comics... →
From a post at but does it float, some mesmerising images by Jean Giraud, and links to other sources.
The LA Times obit cited above is quite informative:
Even as Giraud’s productivity narrowed in recent years, his stature in the creative community seemed to grow as young illustrators, digital artists and video game designers looked to his work as a key compass point. In October 2010 the...
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Sydney City Poet: Poems Revisited: "A Consumer's... →
sydneycitypoet:
When Peter Porter died in 2010, I found that many friends outside Australia—who regularly read poetry—were not at all familiar with his work.
Read more…
Includes “A Consumer’s Report”, a fine jest of a poem by Porter.
oh dear, a broken link. Fixed now.
see previous post…
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Paris Guide | Lauren Elkin →
Lauren Elkin, a journalist living in Paris, has moved her Maitresse weblog to her personal website, which is how I found this rather nice guide.
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“The Web version of the literary magazine McSweeney’s maintains a repository of...”
– Poetic Form: Sestina- Poets.org
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The History of Nordic Women's Literature is now... →
Thanks to Michael Orthofer of the Literary Saloon for the link.
The History of Nordic Women’s Literature is now available online, in three languages — an online version of the monumental Nordisk Kvindelitteraturhistorie, originally published in Danish in five volumes between 1993 and 1998.
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Australian Classics book club - Books and Arts... →
Via Geordie Williamson (@gamwilliamson) on Twitter, who was listening to this.
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Everyday Adventure by Lisa Dempster: How women... →
Lisa’s blog post for IWD is a corker. Plenty of good Australian links for International Women’s Day, along with a reprint of a piece on Asian women’s writing she wrote after attending the Sharjah International Book Fair earlier this year.
Kate Mosse (Britain) and Oumaima al-Khamis (Saudia Arabia) spoke about the importance of writing about women, especially as it creates...
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Understated Turmoil - David Freeman on Beryl... →
lareviewofbooks:
DAVID FREEMAN The late English novelist Beryl Bainbridge was a favorite among writers. That’s a lovely honor but not a ticket to popular success. Bainbridge had two distinct periods. In the first she wrote about young women and the trials of their working lives, the men they never quite understood and who never quite understood them. Those books often open as conventional...
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John Tranter: Dream-work (long essay on poetics).... →
February 2012
34 posts
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Watch Make It Real: NDIS 2012 -> View Jarrod’s Story
More stories and videos here. Tony A. is the only one lagging on the NDIS, so I hope he watches all of these.
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Gary Oldman Interview by Chris Heath: Movies TV:... →
First noted at Give Me Something To Read. Then lost in Tumblr’s interminable scroll….
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