May 2012
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Even More Famous Actors in Their Film Debuts →
From Flavorwire, originally. The second in this series finishes with Kevin Bacon’s debut spanking in Animal House (which I wish to remember because it is funny).
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“Here’s another worrisome point: Facebook is a company of technologists,...”
– The Facebook Fallacy - Technology Review
By Michael Wolff, for MIT’s Technology Review. Link via the Melville House blog.
It would be good to hear more about exactly how this will take down the Web, however. Is this an extravagant claim, or not?
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“He may be best-known now for “The Pied Piper of Hamelin”, but the...”
– Why such muted celebrations for Robert Browning’s bicentenary? | Books | The Guardian
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James Salter to Receive 2012 PEN/Malamud Award →
James Salter has been selected to receive the 25th annual PEN/Malamud Award. Given annually since 1988 in honor of the late Bernard Malamud, this award recognizes a body of work that demonstrates excellence in the art of short fiction.
Salter is regarded as one of the finest living practitioners of fiction by his fellow writers, by critics, and by the lucky readers familiar with his work....
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An interview with Edmund de Waal on Radio... →
Comes recommended by our new Pascall Prize for criticism winner, James Bradley: “one of the best hours of radio I’ve heard in a very long time. Brilliant stuff.” Via Twitter (@cityoftongues).
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Delia Falconer essay at the Wheeler Centre's Long... →
Saving this commissioned piece for Melbourne’s readers and writers centre website to read later.
Delia is one of our finest essayists.
Animals, it occurs to me, have been keeping us unnerving company in our recent fiction – most obviously, in J.M. Coetzee’s novels, preoccupied by their industrial slaughter. But also Michelle de Kretser’s The Lost Dog (2008); Charlotte Wood’s Animal...
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YES! THIS BUDGET'S FOR YOU →
So glad I logged into Twitter last week and found this brilliant article by Wendy Harmer at The Hoopla.
It’s not only people with a disability who should be cheering the budget’s $1 billion commitment to a National Disability Insurance Scheme.
Every one of us should be applauding like mad.
Because perhaps, finally, Australians are beginning to understand in a profound way that disability is a...
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St. Patrick of Armagh, deliver me from writing |... →
As noted, blogging may not be well paid, but at least our keyboards aren’t hairy.
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Budget for NDIS welcome, but more is needed -... →
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Top flash fiction writing tips: David Gaffney |... →
Not quite sure why this is in the children’s section…surely it’s something we can all work on?
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“Boyd butchered the ball at times but wore down the Roos with 10 clearances;...”
– Who is Martin Blake, and what the hell kind of word is ‘snavelled’? (Spotted by my son, just now.)
Dogs find the answer with Dickson - The Age, print and online.
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warm winter words from Puncher and Wattmann's...
A. Frances Johnson’s latest book of poems is published by Puncher and Wattmann,
and will be launched
by poet and critic Justin Clemens
at Bella Union bar,
Level 1, Vic. Trades Hall, cnr. Lygon and Victoria Streets, Carlton
this Friday May 11th, 6 for a 6.30pm start.
“No-one, in the long history of the Australian ‘bird poem’, has written about birds like this....
April 2012
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“In our time aesthetic precincts have to be secured in order to guarantee an...”
– CONCEPTUAL WRITING WAS INTRIGUING AND PROVOCATIVE: Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
Johanna Drucker is quoted at length here, on conceptual writing (on which the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetics is silent). I’ve been reading about here because Ampersand Duck has put her blog...
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