By Nightfall, Michael Cunningham, HarperCollins (Aus pb, Aus ebook, US and Kindle, UK) Over the past few days I’ve been in the audience of four sessions featuring my favourite American author Michael Cunningham. Cunningham’s latest novel is By Nightfall. I’ve drafted a few posts on it since I read it, but was never able to adequately [...]
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The epic qualities of outwardly ordinary lives: By Nightfall and Michael Cunningham in Australia
May 25, 2011 – 11:18 am
Sydney Writers Festival program out now
April 1, 2011 – 6:23 pm
In case you missed it on Twitter and Facebook (where I do most of my ‘festival program’ linking as there are just too many to blog about), the program for the 2011 Sydney Writers Festival (16-22 May) has been announced. The blurb: ‘The 2011 Sydney Writers’ Festival proudly presents some of the world’s finest poets, [...]
Things to see, bits & bobs
February 1, 2011 – 1:38 pm
How’s your year so far? I’m having a great time with this classics project, though it’s hard to know what to do with all the new books I’m being sent. Here’s a pile: Of course, I’ll get as many as I can out to guest reviewers, and I’ll fit some in myself. At the moment, [...]
Bookish ways to help out the flood victims
January 17, 2011 – 1:46 pm
The recent floods throughout Queensland and other parts of Australia have had a massive impact on many lives. But there are some literary-minded ways you can help out: 1. Bid for some of the signed or limited edition books and other literary goods like manuscript assessments in the Authors for Queensland auctions. 2. The Writers on Rafts [...]
The Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2010
September 29, 2010 – 6:50 pm
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 [...]
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 [...]
Soul-scorching voyage (bring it on!)
February 18, 2010 – 5:26 pm
This is absolutely the best article I’ve read for a while on contemporary issues in writing – the way it’s talked about, taught, and so on: ‘A Writing Career Becomes Harder to Scale’, by Dani Shapiro. Shapiro says: ‘the decisive factor is what I call endurability: that is, the ability to deal effectively with uncertainty, [...]
Speaking of…
February 7, 2010 – 6:05 pm
The literary-minded in Melbourne need never be bored. The Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas will begin filling our lunch breaks and evenings this month. Here’s the program for the first three months. I’ll be getting along to see Helen Garner, and I love the idea of the Lunchbox/Soapbox sessions which allow you to [...]
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The big bucks: Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2011
Last night I went along to the ‘streamlined’ Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, run by the Wheeler Centre. The awards took place in the grand Plaza Ballroom (part of the Regent Theatre), built in 1929. The decadent entrance and room is apparently in the Spanish Rococo style, but it seemed very eclectic to me: nouveau flourishes, [...]