Well, not really. But I will be away for a few days. See you next Wednesday. Or… earlier.
Monthly Archives: September 2010
Some notes on the ‘new world’ of publishing
September 16, 2010 – 8:32 am
On the weekend I was a guest of the Write Around the Murray Festival in Albury. Besides giving a blogging/social media workshop, I was on a panel called The New World of Publishing alongside author Cate Kennedy, zinester Anna Poletti, self-published memoirist Melinda Marengo, and Barry Dorr and Jo Costello from JoJo Publishing. I thought I’d [...]
Investing in rainbows: Lisa Lang’s Utopian Man
September 14, 2010 – 9:32 am
Utopian Man Lisa Lang Allen & Unwin 9781742373348 2010 (Australia) Edward Cole was the forward-thinking, optimistic and eccentric founder of Cole’s Book Arcade – a utopian hive of 1880’s Melbourne. In the Arcade was stacked all manner of books (which were able to be perused on in-store lounges), pamphlets (including challenging, self-published explorations by Cole), and eventually, [...]
Writers for Burma, Wheeler Centre Program Three & other upcoming events
September 8, 2010 – 5:42 pm
There are many events on the Melbourne literary calendar and mostly I’ll track what looks interesting on Twitter, but there are a few coming up I’d like to devote a bit more space to… On October 3 is Writers for Burma, at the Bella Union Bar, Trades Hall, Carlton, from 2:30pm. MC and organiser Paul Mitchell [...]
Guest review: Chris Flynn on Justin Cronin’s The Passage
September 7, 2010 – 5:30 pm
The Passage Justin Cronin (Aus, US) Orion 9780752897851 Reviewed by Chris Flynn It’s funny how movies influence books so much these days. The fact that The Passage was optioned by Sir Ridley Scott for $1.75 million within a week of Cronin settling on a $3.75 million publishing deal for his vampire apocalypse trilogy is unsurprising [...]
Guest review: Lyndon Riggall on Kelly Link’s The Wrong Grave
September 2, 2010 – 11:13 am
The Wrong Grave Kelly Link Text 9781921520730 (Aus) Reviewed by Lyndon Riggall It took me a little while to work out exactly what The Wrong Grave was. A book of short stories, yes. But why these stories, and why in this order? You see, some of the tales featured here appear in her book Pretty Monsters and others [...]
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The Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2010
I attended the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards last night. I drank a lot of red wine, Casey Bennetto sang, awards were given, people got emotional, Peter Temple was hilarious, there was a dessert buffet, and Penguin CEO Gabrielle Coyne and I had a conversation about Michael Jackson. The Wheeler Centre, administering the awards for the first [...]