If for no more reason than the new Dan Brown has just been published, today’s post nods back to books. (’The [Dan Brown] books came straight off the printer, went straight into boxes and were then wrapped in black plastic and sealed,’ Random House spokeswoman Ms Reid said.)
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To a book with a cosmically different level [...]
In September’s ABR (Australian Book Review) there is a full page ad for the new issue of Griffith Review. The headline reads:
We’ve always been smart – now we’re sexy too.
It goes on: ‘Presenting Griffith REVIEW 25: After the Crisis, the first edition with our new partners at Text Publishing and featuring an elegant redesign. (etc [...]
Mayor Rob Doyle’s big M has been getting caned and tarred (and a tiny bit of lovin’). What do the Melburnians hate more? – that the letter cost $240,000, or that a Sydney firm had to do it because, as the mayor explained, ‘We could [have], but I wanted the best product…’
As an accurate symbol [...]
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